8 September 2010: Afternoon By The Morning News — 08 Sep 2010 Ranchers say the cure for overgrazing is more grazing, improving the soil with ruminants. Terrifying account of the global "honor killing" crimewave killing upwards of 20,000 per year. Canada lost more working days last year to strikes than South Africa or France. Countries' paid vacation days compared (U.S. does not do well). Audio: John Le Carré on money laundering and "the Russification of British life." Fifty Cent's tweets translated with Oxford English Dictionary eloquence. Chronicle of the rise of Napster founder, former Facebook president Sean Parker. Hundred-year-old Times piece finds tragedy befalling the other couple in Lincoln's box. Orszag joins the Times as a columnist: "A benign bond market is a luxury we won't enjoy forever." If what you are thinking could just as easily be expressed in a slogan, you are probably not thinking at all. Hundreds of Chinese parents sleep on gymnasium floor to support first-year college students. Ultimately, it's made me feel despair about where we are going. Conversation with photojournalist Ed Kashi. Stories of Roald Dahl, who invented a spinal valve, dreamed of being the next Faulkner, and had his nose cut off. Video: Trailer for Joshua Allen's Chokeville. Perrenial Allen favorite: The exact best length--down to the second--for the platonic pop song.
