9 December 2010: Afternoon
By The Morning News
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History is filled with stories of convent rebellion and nuns plotting escape.
Concert pianist pays tribute to the teachers, games, and charades that paved the way for his creativity.
Zoos fight the business mindset in hopes of saving ugly animals too.
Research suggests being too clean can result in depression.
We think cyborgs are "Terminators," but scientists argue that using hearing aids and Bluetooth mean they're among us now.
Q&A with T.S.A. chief on risk, inevitable attacks, and profiling passengers.
There's more to Silicon Valley start-ups than Facebook: There's Blippy, Swipley, Teevox, and all are determined to rule the future.
China creates its own peace prize, since it has more citizens than Norway and its "biased and fallacious" Nobel Prize panel.
Evolutionary, environmental, and physical explanations of the Santa Claus scenario.
Long read: The saga of rising golf star Erica Blasberg from childhood potential to tragic suicide.
Hyper-realistic latex mask used in bank robbery leads tellers, police to accuse the wrong man--even the suspect's mother was convinced.
"Take my game to the next level (from the concrete streets, to the executive suites)." Pimp's business plan.