8 August 2008: Weekend
By The Morning News
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Fallows on the air quality for Beijing's opening ceremonies: "This is a disaster."
Why coffee, the miracle drink, doesn't dehydrate you, cause cancer, or do much nasty at all.
Impersonal critique of Harvard Business School--the "factory for unhappy people"--written by an alumni.
The rejected Dark Night script Michael Bay didn't write, but could have.
Simon Gray dies from cancer at 71.
Round-up of Spain's dominance of sports this summer.
Obama, Booker, Nutter, Patrick, and the sea change in black American politics.
Gallery: On-set photos from The Road.
Profiling Caodaism, and asking one important question: why Victor Hugo?
How to calculate the economic value of professional basketball players.
Video: Ten-part documentary about last year's Boadrums 77 concert, starring all 77 drummers.
What David Brooks summarizes, the experts untangle, explain, and elaborate upon; in this case materialism.
Literary voyeurism: writers' rooms, methods, and libraries.
Profile of "freak folk" duo CocoRosie.
List of the gadgets tech critic David Pogue personally uses.
Lose yourself in: Britain From Above.
