October 10, 2011: Morning
By The Morning News
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- Twenty-four killed in Cairo clashes between Coptic Christians and security forces.
- Arab spring in smartphone circles finds war between IT staff and workers who use their own devices.
- Hitchens: Pakistan is the enemy, "humiliatingly subsidizing [those who] sabotage us."
- Naomi Klein lets Wall Street's occupiers know they are loved.
- Music of Occupy Wall Street—a movement still waiting for its Dylan.
- Employment at performing arts companies has dropped 16 percent in the past year.
- São Tomé strives to escape cocoa/oil-based future, though local bars are supported by flight crews from oil-tycoons' jets.
- Mother who went back to the land post-divorce, facing poverty, can't imagine now going to Whole Foods.
- High-end coffee workers really are the worst.
- Fanboy met Steve Jobs on the day he had an apple carved into his head.
- Report from a hardcore reader who, 12 months ago, gave up books for the e-versions.
- New Radiolab episode, "Loops," features surreal mother-daughter interview conducted during amnesia.
- Metaphysical tour of Google Maps.
- Infographic shows how Tom Waits achieves his tone of voice.
- Phantom Tollbooth at 50.
- Hanging out with Wallace, Franzen, Karr, and Eugenides at the start of their careers.
