Tuesday, May 13, 2008
Currently: tossing the fried laptop into the poubelleToday’s Feature: “The Bitterest Pill” by Kevin Guilfoile & John Warner
Digest: “Book Digest” by Robert Birnbaum
Morning Edition
The children who were considered fortunate escaped with a broken bone or a severed limb. In China, parents grieve, wait at a schoolhouse leveled by the earthquake.
Chinese officials say death toll has reached 12,000, and is likely to rise.
In Burma, first U.S. relief flights arrive; residents accuse junta of hoarding recent aid, distributing old food.
“Jesus Back,” as the video clip is called, was produced by a handful of strikingly good-looking Methodists from Texas. GodTube scores greatest hits, $30 million investment.
Japan’s vending machines count wrinkles, dispense tobacco.
One more superpower for Viagra: saving failing hearts in mice.
Multimedia: How the movement of our lips influences what we hear.
How the candidates’ signatures reveal who they really are.
The world’s most powerfully dangerous gangs.
Obama workers, going door to door in support of their candidate, come face to face with racism.
A view of the Japanese mafia from a reporter whose head is on the block.
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The Guilfoile-Warner Papers
The Bitterest Pill
Her campaign beaten and bruised, Hillary won’t concede defeat, and proves she’s willing to do anything to get elected. With a comeback unlikely, KEVIN GUILFOILE and JOHN WARNER wonder what she’ll try next—in her campaign and beyond.Personal Essays
Girl Lessons
Mothers and daughters don’t always have the easiest relationships, especially when the daughters try to recycle the mothers with the trash. A story of aspirations, generations, and pop-culture quizzes by JESSICA FRANCIS KANE.America, America, Burning Bright
Do Not Go Gentle
With primary season nearly over, the two remaining Democrats are each facing their own demons. Perhaps some poetry will be an inspiration? TMN Poet Laureate LAUREN FREY puts her observations into verse.
People We Like
Jay Maynard
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A Word of Advice
With great dignity, the writers share their collective wisdom. The result: the ultimate graduation speech.DIGEST
Book Digest
May 12 | Elizabeth Strout give Robert Birnbaum her latest reads; also: The Bill McKibben Reader; Kluge; I Tho…
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