Headlines from April 22, 2008
- Boston Marathon waives qualifying factors for those with deep pockets for charity.
- The New York governor's office adjusts to its new, blind occupant--from the lack of a teleprompter to Paterson's Batphone.
- France dispatches smiling officials to mollify China post-Olympic parade disaster.
- With more arms on the way to Zimbabwe, notes on news about China's growing role in Africa.
- Australia is now bigger; Australia doesn't tolerate handheld laser pointers.
- Op: Congratulations, journalists, on your cooler-than-you attitudes about comic conventions.
- Obama wasn't condescending to working-class rural Pennsylvanians; he was pandering to wealthy urban San Franciscans.
- Video: Bill Clinton's message to Pennsylvania voters.
- Il Cavaliere--as Berlusconi is known--has never managed to shake off the stigma among his European counterparts of being a leader who is not to be taken seriously.
- A handy chart to keep up with your favorite politican's history of drug use.
- The show has resurrected the potential for scripted dramas to be effective social satire. How Gossip Girl is changing television, for everyone, forever.
- Hello Kitty will be "modeling" the entire Dior collection in next month's issue of Japanese Vogue.
- Because, Men's Vogue, why not: skulls projected on trees.
- Video: Charlie Rose by Samuel Beckett.
- F.D.A. finds link between contaminated blood thinner from China and 81 deaths in the U.S.
- The life expectancy for U.S. women has reversed for the first time since 1918--smoking, obesity are the likely culprits.
- The voters who will decide the 2008 election: working-class males, young people, rural Americans, and Hispanics.
- Victory in Pennsylvania is in the eye of the beholder--superdelegates will lose faith in Clinton unless she wins, and wins big.
- Clinton's campaign is in heavy debt, to the tune of $10 million--does she really need that $5 coffee?
- Political cartoonists try their hand at the next president: McCain's a badger, Clinton's got hips and hair, Obama's cool.
- Audio: Life as a six-foot-three woman.
- The world's upcoming food crises, in list form.
- Best and worst: pop culture high schools; Hollywood endings.
- Life imitates The Good Life: U.S. suburbanites are turning their yards into sustenance.
- Video: Amy Sedaris cooks with bong water, Martha Stewart.
- The "Stereoscopic Atlas of Human Anatomy," out of print since the '60s, will find new life online.
- Priest attached to party balloons floats away, still missing off the coast of Brazil.