Headlines from November 8, 2010

Chilean miner sings Elvis, finishes New York Marathon in 5 hours, 40 minutes.
Portraits of 99 runners after they crossed yesterday's finish line.
From 2004, Rion Nakaya's post-race portraits of New York marathoners.
New York Public Library digs up snapshots from the 1979 Marathon.
Literary giants like Cynthia Ozick are regularly judged and denigrated by critical pygmies (like myself). Birnbaum reviews Ozick's latest.
"Sometimes some things are just unacceptable." Adventures in product recalls.
Canton, Ohio, residents gather to honor a man who anonymously helped them weather the Great Depression.
[They feel] it is possible for them to be patriots again in the nation that once tried to wipe them out. Germany's young Jews are joining the military.
From underneath Manhattan, archaeologists dig up a ship that "built New York."
As laborers abandon cocoa farms, chocolate may become the expensive luxury of the future.
How to write a good diplomatic speech.
In heavily censored Singapore, drag queen Kumar is one of few who can speak the truth.
Senegal experiences annual exodus of young to Spain, where they hope to make enough to send back home.
Saturday's brutal beating of a Moscow journalist may be part of a Medvedev-Putin power struggle.
Dick Cheney ran the Bush White House. Myths about George W. Bush.
Op: Berlusconi doesn't like women, he likes interchangeable dolls.
Eleven paintings "you can't miss" at MoMA's historic Abstract Expressionism show.
I do not even notice that I can't read most of the time. Art critic on living/dying with a brain tumor.
Slideshow of where the workers who made your iPhone sleep at night.
Bill Wyman's "Mick Jagger responds" piece is not by Mick Jagger, but it's very good.
Long read: The case of the vanishing blond.
New idea for trend bar: pre-Industrial air, where sniffing leads to time travel.
U.S. pushes low-fat milk, leaving surplus of milk fat, ergo U.S. pushes cheese-laden products.
Paul Auster begins his day with a pot of tea.
Poems by Glück, Walcott, Merwin in honor of daylight saving time.
"It is possible that the key to immortality is hidden" in a 17-year-old three-year-old.
Video: Brooklyn to New York via Brooklyn Bridge, 1899.