Headlines from January 30, 2008
- The argument for a new geologic epoch, the argument against.
- Hoberman's arguments: Romanian abortion film doesn't have the luxury of pretending pregnancy's a joke; perhaps that explains why Hollywood looks the other way.
- Jennifer Daniels's print-out calendars for 2008; Ellie Kemper's remix of Caroline Kennedy's Obama endorsement.
- Major art-world buzz around Gerhard Richter's next show, to debut eight months from now.
- Eight simple steps for stealing an election without breaking a sweat.
- Look to fishermen for current political relations between the Koreas and China.
- Not one for rest, relationship consultant Jimmy Carter's next weekend project is to reunite the Baptist church.
- Just in time for this weekend's big bowl, study inspired by Seinfeld confirms the danger of the double dip.
- Erik Bryan courts danger in today's Mp3 Digest by inventing the biographies of artists he doesn't know.
- For all lexicographers in the know, Grant Barrett dives into the history of w00t.
- Tracking the online hero-worship of Jérôme Kerviel, France's super-trader.
- Tracking the spy satellites that won't fall on your head.
- Turkish secularists--and not a few westerners--look on with concern as parliament reconsiders decades-old ban on headscarves in universities.
- Op: In a contest with no delegates, Clinton's victory party in Florida was "a political stunt worthy of the late Evel Knievel."
- McCain wins Florida, a bevy of delegates, as immigration as an issue has seemed to disappear.
- Following his trouncing in Florida, Giuliani expected to fold his campaign, endorse McCain--Edwards to announce he's dropping out today as well.
- We must all do our part to preserve this climate of fear.
- Barbed wire, fire, psycho-trauma: Photos from the "Tough Guy Challenge" in the U.K.
- In New Jersey, groups of men eat cholesterol together.
- The government wants to use these games to celebrate itself and its policy of opening up China. But there isn't anything to celebrate.
- Bill Clinton's role in his wife's campaign takes on many forms: supporter, attack dog, copresidential candidate.
- Groups protest the demolition of the Sunset Strip Tower Records, one of the rare reminders of the music scene that once surrounded it.
- The flight can be enjoyed as God intended. German travel agency offers air passage in the nude.
- Thai officials, U.N. argue whether the Burmese that tourists pay to see and take photos of are truly refugees, or part of a human zoo.
- Though it may sound like the plot of a horror movie, it's an actual kidney-stealing operation in India.
- Matthew Baldwin opens the doors to this year's "Make-Yer-Own Oscar Pool."
- The story behind Woody Allen's credits typography.