6 December 2007: Afternoon By The Morning News — 06 Dec 2007 Letter bomb in downtown Paris kills secretary who opened the package. What happened to Gordon Brown? The disappearance of a prime minister while his government lurches between disasters. Analysis of statistics in Giuliani's latest Iran ad. How to get 100 million children in India reading in three years. Celebrating Thriller 25 years later. Op: The critic who can insightfully gush and grieve over his favorite band is the oracle of music journalism. This is your brain on violent media: Data on the brain's reaction to engaging violence. Owning a Jimmy Choo or an Air Jordan or a Chuck Taylor means something. That wasn't the case when Giapetto the Cobbler made your wingtips. How luxury lost its luster. Luxury? $75 for a monogramed sterling silver Chapstick cover. Ten incredibly bizarre scientific papers, including "Ultrasonic Velocity in Cheddar Cheese as Affected by Temperature." Because it's Thursday afternoon: Ten bathroom placards for the uncommonly stupid. The Times tries to fork the current zeitgeist of selling food and comes up with: Kill the entree. Inside look at how spam is produced. While Americans blog to stand out, the Japanese do it to fit in, blogging about small stuff: cats and flowers, bicycles and breakfast, gadgets and TV stars.
