Headlines from December 10, 2008

When even Tutu says military intervention may be necessary, Africa leaders look to oust Mugabe.
GM has more workers outside the U.S. than in it, and its revenue is up overseas.
The E.U. may outrank Russia by every objective measure, but its size means it's outflanked and out-gamed.
Slideshow: 61-year-old truck driver builds first accurate replica of Hiroshima bomb.
Nazi schematics uncovered for bomber plane much like a "pub dart."
There aren't more depressed people now, just more people who want treatment.
To become a competent surgeon in one fifth of the time once needed either requires genius, intensive practice, or lower standards. We are not geniuses.
Print for the commute: Gates on how the Pentagon should focus: on unconventional conflicts, and on modesty.
How the FBI's wiretap network works.
Nobody says "Wegen des Fahrrads" (because of the bikes), rather "wegen dem Fahrrads" ('cause of them bikes). On the difficulties of translating The Wire into German.
How to make vile-tasting prison wine from oranges.
Op: It would be nice if all the earnest self-improvers found less time for self-promotion.
Writers' and artists' daily routines blogged.
Pakistan's PM on the painful reality of shared experience, how the West equipped fanatics, the coordination required to progress.
Riots continue in Greece over failed economy, education; the "lost generation" got sick of scandals, conservatism.
From February: Blagojevich "believes so fervently he's in the right that I don't think he's capable of understanding when people tell him he's wrong."
From 2006: Why Chicago's politicians are so corrupt--the more frequent its occurrence, the more forgivable it becomes.
Study finds that cash incentives for losing weight work better than mere dieting.
Then she went to detox. Then she went to A.A. Still she kept drinking. And still she made V.P.
Gore will serve as commander in chief from Dec. 10 to Jan. 20. Supreme Court overturns Bush v. Gore.
Recessions allow new ideas to flourish; past declines have killed the "job for life," kick-started globalization.
Op: Obama can assuage the media meltdown by restarting another Depression-era success, the Federal Writers Project.
New pieces from our writers, collected works from the past year: The 2008 TMN Annual.
Kermit the Frog sings LCD Soundsystem's "New York, I Love You, but You're Bringing Me Down."
What Google knows about New Yorkers: Bauhaus architecture and the Large Hadron Collider loom large.
Tracking our lives in charts and graphs is a movement, part of the tradition of an "anthropology of ourselves."