9 May 2007: Afternoon By The Morning News — 09 May 2007 Cheney makes a surprise stop in Baghdad, where he is expected to encourage Iraqi lawmakers to skip their usual summer recess. Fires threaten the bone-dry Griffith Park area of Los Angeles. (Updates here.) Europe to see a rash of new leaders as Tony Blair intends to step down, Serbia elects an ultranationalist Milosevic-ite. How many book reviews is enough? In today's feature, Elizabeth Kiem hunts down a favorite bawdy Irish hermit-author. I see nothing as a forever devouring, forever going on monster. Machine translation or Faulkner? Utah County Republicans use Satan to remind us why the Know-Nothing Party fell out of favor in the 19th century. Caesarean sections nowhere more popular than in Asia, where a lucky birth is a matter of minutes. "Ice that's not frozen." Water features prominently in Wired's lamest "value-added" products. U.S. Supreme Court redefines what makes an invention "non-obvious." A water pipe providing sexual simulation and a retractable table top for a toilet are pretty non-obvious. Frommer's Europe on $5 a Day ends its run after inflation brings the number up to $95. Moscow beats out Orlando in its love for theme restaurants. Philip Graham translates todays Mp3 Digest into Portuguese. The obvious answer of what to do with extra packets of Kool-Aid and a big bucket of dill pickles.
