5 February 2009: Morning
By The Morning News
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Obama details plan for bailout companies: executive pay will be capped, luxury purchases must be disclosed.
Op: Obama's stand on bailout executives is akin to Reagan's firing of air-traffic controllers--a new gist for a new era.
Lux Interior, lead singer of the Cramps, dies at age 62.
Somalian pirates release Ukrainian ship carrying Russian arms--the world hopes they don't end up in Sudan.
Italy struggles to disband its imaginary 300,000-strong Cold War army.
"I don't think the American public has gripped in its gut what could happen." California's agriculture reaches its final century, Sec. of Energy claims.
Today's long read: Now it is time for conservatives to repudiate movement politics and recover their honorable intellectual and political tradition.
Op: Cheney must exit Right's stage: Terrorism is likely whoever the president is--politicizing terror is disgraceful.
Police search home of man connected to the unsolved, fatal 1982 Tylenol poisonings.
Images from inside X-ray machines.
The histories of 10 essential gaming systems.
How a Sega Genesis allowed a young, depressed Todd Levin to become a bear, dragon, tiger, and man-wolf. (more from "Consoles I Have Known")
Ten beautiful stovetop espresso makers, just because.
Charted: Pitchfork's 100 best tracks of 2008--by record company, label ownership, label location.
