9 October 2009: Weekend
By The Morning News
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Barack Obama becomes third sitting president to win the Nobel Peace Prize; see full citation.
Q&A with the man who telephones Nobel Prize winners to tell them they've won.
Stalin's grandson sues Russian newspaper to protect dictator's reputation.
Chart: Where in the world are the WMDs.
Federal Housing Administration may need a bailout; Fannie and Freddie have swallowed $96 billion, and may still need more.
Op: Education made America great; neglect of education can reverse the process.
States should now accept that all death information is public information, no matter who the victim was or how they died.
Highlights from 100 years in British intelligence (the spy kind).
The literary journal is dead; long live the literary journal: A history of modernist British magazines.
The newspaper book critic is dead.
New in #drac: Battle of the sexes.
Efforts being made to curtail annoyingly loud television commercials; how fiber optics changed a photographer's work.
Photos of breaching white shark off Sunset Beach.
Super 8 has reemerged as a valid, if not fetishistic, medium.
Planned domed community in Vermont was too good to be true.
Test run, with photos, of the electronic 2010 Tesla Roadster Sport induces panting on this editor's part.
Fawning profile--no really, fawning--of Jamie Oliver's nutrition adventures in West Virginia.
Breakdown of kaiseki, a Japanese eating style so complex it has a scholarly following.
When drinking tea, just drink tea. Twenty of Michael Pollan's favorite food maxims.
Video: Staircase becomes a piano, and more people take the staircase.