Video Digest: October 12, 2007
Meave Gallagher scales the videos of rock climbing, chronicling amazing ascents: Scientists take their work to the peaks; Dan Osman, RIP; German DJ climbing; Chris Sharma the wunderkind; a French Spider-Man.
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12 October 2007: Morning
Former vice president, presidential candidate, bearded nobody Al Gore wins the Nobel Peace Prize for climate change work. I'm the only one running for President who's actually made it work. When candidates say they're the only ones. Dub-Dub and Laura sneakily find perfect
11 October 2007: Afternoon
Al Gore's campaign for the presidency is still going strong--less Al Gore. British judge rules Gore's An Inconvenient Truth contains exactly nine untruths. Still, that probably won't stop him from winning the Nobel Peace Prize. British mail workers go on strike; online stores
11 October 2007: Morning
Marines strike up plan for troop withdrawal from Iraq--their own. With "skepticism, fire, and visionary power," Doris Lessing wins 2007 Nobel prize for Literature. Federal judge blocks Bush plan to sack 8.7 million suspected illegal workers nationwide. House votes to call 1915 Armenian killings genocide--a
Secret Gardens
Now a New Yorker, our resident green essayist brings her yardwork series to the big city, even if it means breaking into private plots.
10 October 2007: Afternoon
The stars at last night's Republican debate were Romney, Giuliani, and a "rosy economy." CNN graphic has leading candidates smiling, flagging candidates frowning--and then there's Mike Gravel. As of 11 a.m. today, Chrysler's autoworkers are on strike; Broadway theaters face
The New Re-Appropriation of Hip-Hop
A few years back I tried pushing this concept to DJs called “the new re-appropriation,” wherein they should take rap away from the mumbling, punch-drunk death threats it’s become by removing the vocals, leaving only the backing track and R&B fill-in, and then distributing
America’s Next Top Model Democracy
The winning country receives billions in government contracts and becomes the show’s next host. Who will it be?
10 October 2007: Morning
Guards from private Australian-run security firm kill two Iraqi women driving home in Baghdad. New theory being tested in Iraq's government: Forget about getting along or looking good, let's just do better on services. Britannica Blog runs week-long forum on the question of "
9 October 2007: Afternoon
Personnel changes in the Chinese military put Taiwan experts at the top--Taiwan war-making experts, that is. Spain proposes "Historic Memory Law," which will honor Civil War victims on both sides of the conflict. Conflict in Iberia, however, still ongoing as car bomb explodes in Basque town