Headlines from January 14, 2008
- No matter our sentimental ideas about our cell phones, we rarely consider where they go when they die.
- In today's TMN Gallery, portraits of people who speak to the dead.
- Small-town mayors speak of their ideas of Bloomberg.
- Loquacity equals good leadership--and other myths about eloquence in politics.
- The two largest suppliers of crude to the U.S. are Canada and Mexico, neither known as a belligerent terrorist haven. Myths about the oil habit.
- Four things learned about economics in 2007.
- Arguments for using the GDP to measure recession-ness.
- Absent from the argument about Cosby's accusations are economic facts: How do races really spend on "visible goods" with regards to their neighbors?
- Op: To see a young daughter, faced with the terrible fact of a pregnancy, unscathed by it and completely her old self again was magical. And that’s why Juno is a fairy tale.
- Print for the commute: Pinker on the current challenges in mixing morals with realism and science.
- Another case for printing: terrible details behind the MySpace Suicide Hoax.
- In today's Digest, Robert Birnbaum on Upton Sinclair, Tom Waits, and the week in printing materials.
- Completely unrelated video: How to make tofu.
- U.S. credits former Sunni insurgents for relieving violence in Iraq, fears what may happen if they're not accepted by Shiite leaders.
- "I asked my mother, who is 80, whether she'd ever seen snow in Iraq before, and her answer was no." On Friday, it snowed in Baghdad.
- Pfizer introduces a drug to treat fibromyalgia, though some doctors doubt whether the condition exists.
- Stem cells and cadaver organs may lead to the creation of new hearts: rats now, humans in a decade.
- Botox one day, stem-cell skincare and skull lifts the next.
- Audio: From Botox to Joan Rivers, the ramifications of the Golden Globes ceremony cancellation.
- Golden Globe winners thank the Hollywood Foreign Press, lament a victory without spoils.
- "The world will end." Jolie, Clooney, Day-Lewis in a roundtable on what will happen if the Oscars are cancelled.
- They... felt an inevitable attraction. Twins separated at birth meet, marry.
- Romance novelist accused of plagiarism; how else do we expect someone to publish more than 100 books?
- Google's in-house cafeterias, much-praised for their fare, have a food critic/software engineer.
- Much praise for farm-raised abalone, delicacy of Thomas Keller and sea otters.
- Bravo to premiere Real Housewives of New York City, including one Cobble Hill wife.
- Walter Bowart, co-founder of the radical East Village Other in 1965, dies.