Headlines from February 22, 2008
- We love "Making Book 2008": Lay down a little money on the Tournament of Books and you (plus the matching companies) are buying books for kids.
- Welsh police refute "death cult," "online shrine" theories about 17 young people killing themselves in a year.
- PowerPoint presentation answers all of the universe's questions.
- Fascinating confessions of a "language polisher" for China's propaganda bureau.
- Stallone's unsmiling and serious-looking style makes him look like a lunatic. New Rambo unpopular with Myanmar chiefs.
- Feeling ill, blue, or in need of a hot toddy? TMN's picks for movies to curl up with.
- Video: Rip Torn bashes in Norman Mailer's head with a hammer. (Explainer.)
- Jad Abumrad, host of the magnificent Radio Lab, edits today's Video Digest at TMN with his favorite music for films.
- Test finds it's tough pegging college students' musical tastes to their personality characteristics.
- Italian scientist discovers the G-spot, develops an ultrasound test to look for it; Italian scientists unveil robot that can make coffee.
- Germany puts science, and a focus on international relations, at the top of its economic agenda.
- Gallery of images from the International Aquatic Plant Layout Contest.
- "There is no meal without meat." Namibia is a vegetarian's hell and an anemic's paradise.
- Story of infiltrating Seattle's 9/11 conspiracy crowd.
- Our new favorite book title: How to Avoid Huge Ships. See also: Obsolete skills for the 21st century.
- Targeting Kurdish rebels, Turkish troops enter northern Iraq, promise to return home "in the shortest time possible."
- Behind-the-scenes on "The McCain Article" in the Times; reporters are ready to field your flak.
- Election committee informs McCain he can't withdraw from the public financing system he helped create.
- "We didn't raise all of this money to keep paying consultants who have pursued basically the wrong strategy for a year now." Clinton supporters question their candidate's spending.
- In Belgrade, demonstrations over Kosovo's independence turn violent as protesters attack, set fire to the U.S. embassy.
- From allegations the firm failed to protect employees sexually assaulted by co-workers to findings that it charged $45 per can of soda... How war contractors in Iraq became profiteers.
- The world of art thievery, as told by a former dealer.
- Celebrities, 700 patrons require Hepatitis A vaccines after exposure in a West Village bar.
- Stray cockroach in Turkmenistan gets 30 people fired.
- Bob Geldof, Bush travel Africa, draw crowds, goodwill.
- Monochromatic New Yorkers: The girl who only wore turquoise switched to gray; we thought it was teal.
- Video: On Soft Focus, Ian Svenonius interviews Primal Scream's Bobby Gillespie.
- British parents rank their own childhood bedtime stories far above Harry Potter.
- Celebrity World War I draft cards, from Al Capone to Duncan Hines.