5 May 2011: Afternoon
By The Morning News
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Time to revisit this 2006 debunking of bin Laden being on dialysis; the myth dates back to 2000.
Video: Osama's compound burning after the attack.
John Ashcroft appointed head of ethics at Xe, formerly known as Blackwater.
Op: China would love to see Trump elected president; it would demonstrate our deep decline.
Turkey's foreign-relations influence durng the Arab spring: high but precarious.
Stephen Grey talks with Wired readers about his Frontline report on Pakistan's double game.
Joao Silva, Times photographer who lost legs to a land mine, prepares to return to the field.
Confidential report shows Israel's Foreign Ministry views Hamas-Fatah deal as opportunity.
Wall Street Journal launches WikiLeaks competitor, SafeHouse.
Atlantic article from 1926 about the ethics of yellow journalism.
For Cinco de Mayo, recipe for a "Malcolm Lowry," or how to "achieve a ruined grandeur evocative of the novelist."
Synagogues in America summarized in 1300 words.
R.I.P., Derek K. Miller, May 3, 2011, age 41.
The tragedy of traditional masculinity is that it shortens men's lives; the scandal is that it does so in the name of making them better.
Video: Hipster women play classic keyboards.