6 February 2009: Morning
By The Morning News
—
Notes on yesterday's bipartisan stimulus trim session sound frighteningly amateur, silly, and unschooled.
Apparently not a "criterion" for "what creates jobs," cuts include "huge chunks" of education funds.
Paulson overpaid $78 billion on bank assets despite promising he'd buy at market value.
Subprime nothing, and forget about Alt-A: a bigger wave is coming, where even prime mortgage loans won't be bombproof.
Op: Wall Street, the financial industry, and the Republicans are bankrupt; Mr. President, please shoot the zombies.
Slideshow of different parasitic worms that live in our innards.
Justice Ginsburg had surgery for pancreatic cancer, hopefully caught early enough.
Oliver Sacks discusses the irony of losing stereo vision while being an active member of the New York Stereoscopic Society.
Following Russia's shot across the bow (yanking a base in Kyrgyzstan), watchers are keen to see what Biden says this weekend.
Case study of Belo Horizonte, Brazil, as an experiment in e-democracy.
Notes on various candidates' popularity in the run-up to Israel's Tuesday election.
Reasons to believe a two-state solution is impossible all boil down to Israel's vast settlements.
Layer tennis debuts today with a global exchange of pixels.
Your morning brain tease: why exactly is space black?
