October 27, 2011: Afternoon
By The Morning News
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- Explainer: Israeli and Palestinian preconditions for talks.
- Interactive tracker of the Obama administration's economic, domestic, and foreign policies.
- Senate's MAPLE Act would make sales of fraudulent syrup punishable by five years in prison.
- It's fall, it's football season, therefore TMN recommends for good viewing: "See My Vest."
- America's dilapidated malls to house fencing academies, shooting ranges, and trampolines.
- Chinese government seeks to curb reality shows and other "overly entertaining" TV programming.
- Critic Laura Miller on personality in nonfiction, how she chooses what to review, YA fantasy.
- Sylvia Plath's drawings.
- Compared to our ancestors' creative erotica, we've forgotten how to talk dirty.
- iPhone's virtual assistant struggles to comprehend Scottish accent.
- Memories of the capitalist, conformist, miserable experience that was marching band.
- Ed Hardy's house moderately more tasteful than expected.
- Artist uses fish tanks and handfuls of dye, but not Photoshop, to create surreal landscapes.
