Headlines from September 11, 2008

She's the kind of broad who speaks on behalf of other broads but appears not to like them very much. On Palin's Bizarro-world brand of feminism.
Every day, Everymoment Now tracks the number of articles that reference each candidate.
Eerily absorbing: Graphing the candidates' use of individual words.
The relatively recent origin of "lipstick on a pig" as an expression.
Obama strains to keep Michigan from swinging right; for a state that's been blue since 1992, it's an uphill battle.
Beckett for President: Yes We Can't. Political campaign posters from the high end of things.
Joseph Stiglitz asks what our economy is based on, why we are so bad at managing financial risk.
Hip-Hop Hospital II: O.G.-GYN. TMN's Todd Levin on the 100 DVDs still left in your Netflix queue.
Once an aristocrat's cattle market, the middle classes got hold of classical music, wouldn't let go, suffocated it.
Cambridge "personality map" deems New Yorkers the most neurotic and unfriendly in the U.S.
As the credit-crunch bites, a New York architectural era comes to an end--includes before and after shots.
[Warning, graphic photo.] Days after sweeping across the world, the photo was willed into disappearance; years later: Who was the Falling Man?
Ed Ruscha recalls a photo he took of Lower Manhattan in 1961.
Archive: Terror attacks hit U.S.
A third of Mexico and a quarter of Germany think the U.S. government was behind Sept. 11.
Palin's touted pipeline is years from federal approval, at least a decade from completion--if never finished, it could cost Alaska up to $500 million.
Robert Gates: We are in the endgame in Iraq.
Op: If digital technologies are a contributing factor to "stupidity," perhaps it's because we've been buying laptops, not investing in teachers.
Interactive graphic shows what our international neighbors are buying.
Graphic shows how much of Wagner or Tolstoy you could consume each year, depending on how much you sit in traffic.
TMN's Anthony Doerr: What if all the animals migrating past us every year left behind traces of their routes?
As the BBC sends a container around the world, maps of connections reveal much more than our geographical borders.
Planetary engineering to avert climate change is as sensible as shooting CO2 out of the atmosphere using radio waves and lasers--which one day may be our only option.
"When people do the right things, fish come back. Species populations rebound." But if we lose the fish, we lose a culture reliant on beings other than ourselves.
At the dawn of Google's 10th year we learn of its plans for floating data centers powered by wind and sea--cheap, with no red tape.
When people worldwide went online en-masse to research the green glow in the skies after the Even Larger Hadron Collider experiment in 2011, Google.com wasn't available.