6 May 2009: Afternoon By The Morning News — 06 May 2009 Regulators comfortable that Chrysler won't pay back its $7 billion handout while filing for bankruptcy. Tory leader David Cameron has his bike stolen again. Instapaper for the commute: Letter from Beirut finds society teetering between normalcy and collapse. What fascinates the markets about Islamic finance is its dramatic growth and confident predictions that it's set to expand at 15 percent every year. Sicilian authorities investigating alleged mafia involvement in constructing wind farms that don't produce power. French people may eat and sleep more than anyone else, but they remain super skinny. Maps of the seven deadly sins in America. Responding to the media's reluctance to publish images of torture, protest blog decides to recreate them from Lego (see blog here). Op: Prosecuting "the best and brightest" won't deter any authentic best, bright lights from government or Wall St. Profile of an inventor who logs every mile in his 1971 Mustang, driven 619,285 miles and counting. Shirtless Biden washes Trans Am in White House driveway. How Wal-Mart's weathering the recession: $5 toilet seats flying off the shelves. Pediatricians fuming over Oprah's plan to give Jenny McCarthy a pulpit for her anti-vaccine hokum. Reverse vending machines take in your stuff and hand out coins. On the various new literary forms--nanofiction, twiction, novels written on cell phones--emerging from new technologies.
