7 September 2010: Afternoon
By The Morning News
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France strikes over retirement-age bump; South Africa quits striking over pay adjustment.
Netanyahu's ministers complain he's keeping them in the dark, giving them nothing to leak.
Op: Contemporary war is a battle between the impersonal and personal--robots vs. suicide terrorists.
Data-mining software works for counterterrorism; mapping social networks led to Saddam's capture.
Today's long read: Profile of D.C.'s Fellowship, the politically powerful "frat house for Jesus."
See also: story behind the licensing (or not) of miracle famine-relief food Plumpy'nut.
To save some American cities--e.g., Detroit, Cleveland--planners are embracing shrinking.
Future of conservation in Africa is private, expensive, and in drier, remoter areas.
Detailed exploration of the brutal world of pitbull fighting.
Grisham: "I remember staring at the defendant and wishing I had a gun. And like that, a story was born."
Op: Foolish scholars ignore the fact that fine art has always been motivated by money.
Writer wanders around a Cineplex, constructs one movie from 10 parts.
Tom Stoppard says he would prefer death by bookcase to death during sex.
In addition to today's piece about garden slaughter, TMN's Jessica Francis Kane has a new story with 5c.
Bookslut turns 100.