6 December 2010: Afternoon By The Morning News — 06 Dec 2010 China ready to spend $511 billion on 245 nuclear reactors--buy expertise and tech now, avoid imports later. Iran claims ability to produce yellow-cake uranium. Israeli spooks high-fived news of "the Chief's last hit" on an Iranian nuclear scientist. North Korea's propagandists can't sell leader-in-waiting Kim Jong-un using political or military background, so they draw portraits of him strutting in Switzerland. The book that featured in the ink-cartridge bomb plot? Great Expectations. Setting its sights on Michael Pollan, cattle industry prods universities to cancel speaking engagements. Biographer Kitty Kelly explains how the "unauthorized" book can hold the most truth. Video: Comics writer Matt Fraction interviews artist CF and Lightning Bolt drummer Brian Chippendale about their art, the legacy of Jack Kirby, and their favorite new comics. Contribute to our next "Crowdsource": Write your 2010 liner notes. Roundup of artists' historical fascination with cabbage. Picasso's son and his purported electrician fight over the fate of the painter's newly discovered art. Magicians and researchers team up to explain the neuroscience of illusion. As reference-letter season arrives, a professor explains some particulars of the MFA admissions process. Op: Nearly a century after Prohibition, its influence lingers in low-quality drinks and harsh wine laws.
