Headlines from February 21, 2008
- McCain denies Times story about romancing a lobbyist, doesn't touch former strategist's story.
- Op: Since conservatives were responsible for civil rights, President Obama is a natural result to smile upon.
- Southern whites eager to get racial legacies off their backs (especially when black candidates are "genial").
- In kosher restaurants--even those down South--the mashgiach is king, gatekeeper, and pilot light wrapped into one.
- In a connection far too obvious for any of us to see, saltier snacks means more thirst-quenching sodas, means more obese kids.
- Links to lack of wisdom around measuring the U.S. poverty rate.
- Attention 15-year-olds: a list of things we would have told ourselves back in the day.
- A choreographed tour through YouTube's best dancers.
- Time smartly appeals $100 million due to now-deceased President Suharto for libel.
- Yankees to play exhibition game against the media.
- Video: Americans are not stupid; Brits are not stupid; French people are not stupid.
- Many questions unanswered when study finds a higher homicide rate in societies with a higher prevalence of left-handers.
- Radial communities as viewed from the sky; Julian Schnabel's building as viewed from inside.
- Inside the world of "honey trappers," private detectives who test the integrity of your spouse.
- The integrity of TMN's 2008 Tournament of Books is based on transparency, chickens.
- Slow day at work? More time to tackle the top 21st-century engineering challenges (full list here).
- If you have to join a cult, this is not a bad one. Name-calling for Obama supporters.
- Supreme Court rules employees can sue over poor 401(k)s, patients can't sue over faulty medical devices.
- Also in yesterday's docket: Curbing internet sales of tobacco to teenagers is a good, illegal idea.
- After the U.S. successfully downed a spy satellite, China accuses it of threatening space security.
- When "Made in Italy" actually means it was made in a sweatshop.
- YouTube's questionable contribution to the approaching election in Spain.
- Few have heard about the "new Christian urbanism"; fewer know there's an evangelical college in the Empire State Building.
- A staircase to covet: gets you to the attic, shows off all your books.
- Audio: How anonymous text-messagers encouraged--and even caused--acts of violence in Kenya.
- New map reveals the origins of emerging infectious diseases; best to avoid any place with human-animal conflict.
- After 100 days of being writer-less, Jon Stewart has eight days to prepare for the Oscars.
- With inflation rising and recession looming, the condition you're seeing is "stagflation," and it's retro-'70s.
- Local businesses mourn the loss of Brooklyn's off-track-betting locations.
- "We have to change our mentality." More Americans are giving up golf.