Headlines from September 12, 2007
- Bush to sell his limited Iraq pullout as plan to unify America, prior to entering the election jaws.
- Two soldiers who helped author last month's big Times op-ed killed in Baghdad.
- Directions provided by Subway manager show isosceles cheese triangles part of sales conspiracy.
- Op: Those who say the U.S. isn't preparing to attack Iran are buying into big-time denial.
- Peggy Noonan ranks the Republican candidates with debating powers in mind.
- Thinking of 9/11, MOCA chief curator picks artists to ponder.
- Point: Attention must be paid to the current flowering of playwriting talent; Counterpoint: Forget black-box one acts, we need big plays in big spaces.
- Instructions for those who write for radio on how not to sound like police.
- Cynthia Ozick's picks for which books a critic should keep on her shelf.
- Pinker the optimist: Today we are probably living in the most peaceful moment of our species' time on earth.
- Reverse anthropology when five peaceful South Pacific Islanders arrive to study Britain, home of their god, Prince Philip.
- Japanese video game decimating the population of real-life species of Turkish beetle.
- Reducing our time on earth, American toxic sites get profiled with new data each day.
- Americans who want to improve the environment should not have that baby, or at least not a second one.
- Monocle's index of that which improves your life, like Tokyo jogging routes, or parking attendants in Seoul.
- Someone's life improved by exhaustively cataloging attractive record sleeves.
- In this week's Mp3 Digest, Andrew Womack chronicles everything attractive about T-Pain.
- Today sees the resignation of the Japanese PM, the selection of a new Russian one, and the Australians' promise to show himself the door.
- Former president of the Philippines gets 40 years in prison for corruption, heavy drinking, and womanizing.
- Former PM of Pakistan vows to continue his fight after re-deportation.
- Sharif, though, has little reason to fear--Negroponte is on the case.
- Remember when the dollar was totally crushing the euro? Like in 2000? Oh, good times.
- In Ethiopia, it still is 2000.
- Researchers find news coverage on sites like Reddit, Digg more focused on sci-fi and iPhones than one would expect.
- Remarkable amounts of ingenuity, as well as explosives, go into ridding California's Lake Davis from invasive pike.
- Alex, the talking grey African parrot, is dead at 31.
- Moray eels have something in common with the creature from Alien: terrifying double jaws.
- Janet Jackson's nipple is still on trial.
- Thousands of volunteers are using satellite imagery to help find missing adventurer Steve Fossett. (Pitch in here.)
- Astroland goes out with a whimper--Elizabeth Kiem's summer series ends with a bang.
- Just to be clear, Marmite isn't marmalade, so there's no reason for Paddington the Bear to be eating it.