Headlines from February 8, 2008
- Kenya rivals agree to humanitarian aid, not to a power-sharing government.
- Op: The argument for Obama's electability.
- Emerging economies are better at adopting new technologies than at putting them into widespread use.
- Study finds whichever gender rules society is also the more competitive.
- Conservationists mull when to help non-endangered marine mammals.
- Print for the commute: She believes that the dysfunctions of neural centers led to the slaughter of countless innocent people.
- Sugar dust blamed for Georgia refinery explosion that has left six workers missing.
- Winners of sexual-health poetry competition; map of fetishes.
- Best of Brit tabloids: King Henry VII caught on cameraphone; 500-lb anti-gambling shoes.
- Pictures from Vanity Fair's remake of Hitchcock stills, with Seth Rogen fleeing an airplane.
- Physicist submits "optimal boarding method for airline passengers" to Journal of Air Transportation Management.
- McSwonion? General life advice as provided by the Stage Directions to Tennessee Williams's Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.
- Eric Feezell's advice on using "begs the question." See also: Meave Gallagher stakes turf on Super Tuesday mania.
- College football adopts NFL's rule that at least one minority candidate must be interviewed for any open coaching position.
- Romney's campaign shined a light on the Mormon Church--and the Church learned there's a lot of silent anti-Mormonism in the U.S.
- Racism should not be tolerated and this is not the first time British sportsmen have been racially abused in Spain.
- The writers' strike may be ending, with pens in hands as early as Monday--Michael Eisner says it's so.
- FBI raids in New York and Sicily result in arrests of more than 60 members of the Gambino crime family.
- It was Monday night on the Strip, and John Devaney was giving a party for himself and fellow connoisseurs of risk who have seen their hot hands go cold.
- A pet owner wonders: How much is too much to save the life of her beloved cat?
- Unrelated video: How much money would it take for you to kill a puppy with your bare hands?
- Hoping to win the support of Sunnis in Iraq, al Qaeda shifts to "softer tactics," which means not killing Sunni civilians.
- Actually, I think this might be an al Qaeda recruitment film. Charlie Brooker on MTV's My Super Sweet Sixteen.
- Reader mail: Do Guilfoile and Warner support Obama only because he's the anti-Hillary; and: Can we have a president my age?
- French designer envisions giant, whale-shaped flying hotel for tourists.
- Audio: Clorox introduces a new, green brand--at a price that undercuts the other eco-friendly products on the shelves.
- Chinese environmentalists protest throwaway chopsticks, promote a BYOC campaign.
- About a man with one of the worst cases of sleep apnea in Britain--he slept only 14 minutes a night.
