9 June 2008: Afternoon By The Morning News — 09 Jun 2008 Immigrants sending comestibles home to lessen food shortages. Joshua Hammer's remarkable long-form gaze from the ground in Zimbabwe. Print for the commute: The 20th century had delirious New York; the 21st sees Dubai and Beijing planned to the point of soulessness. On the microeconomic community that grew up around the Chinatown-to-Chinatown bus system. See also: Clay Risen not quite cooing about the bus of death. In dispute over role of African Americans in Iwo Jima, Eastwood tells Spike Lee to "shut his face," Lee takes the "Obama high road." Henry Louis Gates Jr. and James Watson discuss race, genetics, the repulsiveness of social Darwinism. Albinos in Tanzania fear growing trade in albino body parts. Pittsburgh museum guard slashes Vija Celmins painting because he doesn't like it. McCarthy's The Road filmed in Pittsburgh "because it offered such a pleasing array of post-apocalyptic scenery." "I haven't given Bond psychological depth, because he doesn't have any." Novelist writes new James Bond book (see excerpt here). Trip lit: recent books to inspire travel. What to eat and what to avoid at the nation's ballparks.
