9 April 2010: Weekend By The Morning News — 09 Apr 2010 Kyrgyzstan's uprising dubbed the "fir tree revolution" after shrubs looted from the president's garden. Evidence of Russian meddling in Kyrgyzstan is not hard to find. How to pronounce Kyrgyzstan. Netanyahu cancels visit to Obama's summit over fears that Muslim states would press for nuclear details. Republicans, Leukemia team up to repeal health care law. Time-lapse: Mountaintop mining wipes out swaths of forest. Miliband: A better future for Afghanistan is not a utopian goal. The powers of market forces are no substitute for a little self-awareness. Predicting success can be impossible, but the N.F.L. is worse at it than most. Colleges outsource grading to Bangalore; professors grateful to give up teaching grammar. Assesssment of soldiers' responses to writing workshops. Op: Steve Harvey, I'm happy, so please stop telling me to lower my standards and guard my cookies. As long as the Lord's Resistance Army lives to see another day, it stands the chance of kidnapping another generation of children. Homage to the 1997 night when Conan did a show for eight-year-olds. Pigeons wearing GPS backpacks show that flocks maintain hierachy on the wing. Espresso capsules and low-cost rivals force iconic Italian coffee-pot maker to move to eastern Europe. Cultural theories and bad beans explain why Paris coffee is so bad. Farce about Sarkozy and Bruni having affairs began on Twitter. Nancy Pelosi's taste in clothes compared to Marie Antoinette's.
