* Largest virus yet discovered isolated from ocean water near Chile. * Instead of showing Latinos working in restaurants, ads now find them eating there. * Bankers who claim their institutions are solid are like horror-film actors going for late-night forest strolls. * Mo Ibrahim's $5 million prize for "
The subtitle of the international version of the book is “The Meltdown Tour.” Lewis acts as tour guide, showing us some ruins, dramatizing the fall with anecdotes, spouting historical hyperbole, and stitching it together with stereotypes. The book is enjoyable when the sheer ineptitude of the powerful is drawn out—
For those of us who are single and looking, the world is full of opportunities and just as full of all sorts of regrets. Reviews of three places with three men.
* UN finds systematic torture of detainees at sites run by Afghanistan's intelligence service and national police. * Iranian actress sentenced to 90 lashes for appearing in film about Tehran. * School lockers, "the latest frontier in nesting," carpeted and wallpapered. * Remnants of a 1953 European motorcycle tour. * Hendrik
* With neurochemistry proving surfing's transcendence, Sartre, Camus, and Freud can sure carve. * Neuroscience dissenter takes out the "neurotrash." * Belief or disbelief in a Being is a matter of faith. * Violent clashes in Cairo mask quiet moves by Egypt's military against democracy. * True crime: Serial
Last week a New York Times baseball blogger posted an entry about sports radio. He described an hour he spent one afternoon listening to stations in Detroit and Philadelphia, certainly through his computer. He said that NFL football dominates the call-in shows, even in cities that have baseball teams
During the 1990s, Steve Powers painted lauded graffiti across New York City as ESPO, and in 1999 published the dorm-room bookshelf staple, “The Art of Getting Over.” Here, a selection from his recent “Daily Metaltations.”
* 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
* Now a decade old, the Afghan war is little better than half over, far from reaching goals. * U.S. drone fleet infected with virus we shouldn't worry about—yet. * Nobel Prize-winning women were powerful because they directly confronted evil-doers. * Human sociability rituals like chanting and dancing
* The GOP consensus on recession-recovery is fundamentally wrong, but only Romney is even partially skeptical. * Breezy history of American fiscal policy finds the Tea Party battling Alexander Hamilton. * Fry: Those who label Jobs "salesman" or "showman" display their asininity. * Ten unicorns of China policy debunked.
