8 February 2007: Afternoon By The Morning News — 08 Feb 2007 Years of mutual suspicion don't aid FBI in outreach to Muslims. Today's long read: The concept and practice of "total war" as it relates to today's battles. Veterans get to say what Democrats wish they could but can't. Recent poll shows McCain on the drop, Rudy on the gain. Carter intended to provoke with his new apartheid-in-Palestine book, and it's a provocation the Israel-cozy-complacent U.S. needs. There are books out there for which criticism is beside the point. In his cataloguing of the greatest albums ever, Andrew Womack tackles 1979. Need to put a kid through college? Sell off Grandma's master work for $600,000. Maira Kalman's "The Impossibility of February" (TimesSelect). After catching the wrong bus on a shopping trip, Thai woman returns to her family after 25 years. The telestereoscope, or, how to look at the world through a Viewmaster. Buying a Prius isn't enough to save the environment--you need to stop eating meat too. Maine lobstermen offended by Whole Foods's "flip-flop" on critter sales. Nine animals named after celebrities.
