Swine flu is now outpacing its vaccine, and high-priority groups may not get their jabs until well into December. There's a shortage of seasonal flu vaccine now as well--H1N1 concerns sparked increased demand. An underground shelter network in Baghdad offers Iraqi women refuge from violence. Dissecting
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Where’s the fuss about the death of literary mags?
Number-one bestselling New York Times author Glenn Beck brandishes a new money rake.
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Padgett Powell’s bebop solo of a book is 164 pages of interrogatory—that’s right, questions.
Maps without legends may not be immediately informative, but determining what they represent is extremely fun. If you’re into that kind of thing, here’s a game for you.
The N.Y.P.D.’s Joe Rizzo has a credo: “There’s no wrong, there’s no right, there just is.”
Thousands of different Lego exist, yet when your seven-year-old asks for “a clippy bit,” you know exactly what to hand him. A breakdown of the atoms of a Lego universe.
