8 January 2010: Weekend
By The Morning News
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Geithner possibly to be grilled over suppression of disclosures about A.I.G.'s bailout.
Op: Perhaps walking away from a mortgage isn't amoral; perhaps it's smart business sense.
F.D.I.C. considers penalizing banks if bonus incentives encourage foolhardy behavior.
Snipers have found their stride in Afghanistan, but the walk is treacherous.
Op: We only fear terrorism when we fly, which is why the terrorists are failing.
Report finds sexual abuse in juvenile detention to be a national crisis; 80% of abuse comes from staff.
Gyms are the new hubs of pretentious living, replete with vintage furniture and DJ booths.
Midwesterners, Russians, Eastern Europeans mock Britain's shivering, though consequences are becoming severe.
Hitchens: Gore Vidal was once the next Oscar Wilde; now he's a blowhard.
"Wind chill" has been around for 60 years and needs retirement.
Weathermen: The most dangerous, and strangest, climate skeptics, funny names and all.
The 2010 Saveur 100, reader-written; e.g., Temptation Barrel-Aged Ale, Sharkskin Wasabi Grater, Wisconsin.
The war is now Apple vs. Google, and tech columnists are catching shrapnel.
Audio: The Evolution of the Human Capacity for Killing at a Distance.
Lovely look at Frank Gehry's Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health.
List of the bestselling books in France in 2009 (no. 1: Le Symbole perdu, Dan Brown).
Eurabian books are of an American genre that refuses to die.
Video: Gothic grandeur in Jay-Z's "On To The Next One."
