Headlines from June 9, 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.
As the average price of gas tops $4, some families must "decide between food and transportation."
More time was spent talking about when Clinton might call it quits than about how the candidates might deal with the war in Iraq.
Clinton supporters' reactions to the end of the campaign run the gamut from denial to acceptance.
Between poetry and plagiarism: typing out The New York Times.
Georges Simenon wrote 400 novels, slept with 10,000 women, and would have accused his own life of being too melodramatic.
U.S. firms could be prosecuted if their acoustic weapons are used to disperse Olympic demonstrations.
Lunchtime reading: Blackwater's increasingly controversial and profitable role as an intelligence and military temping agency.
Researchers discover a sense of fairness affects workers' judgment, outlook.
Audio: Serotonin levels influence one's perception of fair play.
Like the rest of us, scientists gravitate toward the huggable. Why you should worry for the dung beetle.
In China, the piano was seen as a symbol of the bourgeoisie--now, 30 million Chinese children take lessons, seek success.
Jennifer Daniel offers wallpaper to accompany Todd Levin's Consoles I Have Known.