8 May 2008: Morning By The Morning News — 08 May 2008 First U.N. aid flights arrive in Burma; despite reports to the contrary, officials still refuse U.S. access. Burma's junta has so frustrated aid workers that the French foreign minister recommended the U.N. enter Burma without permission. This week, 11 opposition activists were beaten to death by Mugabe supporters. "We're giving the people of Zimbabwe another opportunity to mend their ways, to vote properly." Mugabe's militias boost intimidation campaign. On Limbaugh's "Operation Chaos," and how not all Republican votes for Democrats can be chalked up to mischief. Those who sleep less are prone to smoke more--or is it that those who smoke more are prone to sleep less? Winning the war on meth: Surveys, police statistics confirm the drug is in sharp decline. Tracking the media upswing in creating the next drug menace, the still-legal Salvia divinorum. The CEO of Adidas talks tracksuits and the politics of the Olympics. Fast food gone free range: Chipotle's deal with the pigs. Ten new terms to improve the quality of internet insults. The tricky world of the New York bicyclist: getting "doored" and other holdups. Artist Jason Polan is drawing everyone in New York, maybe even you.
