Headlines from May 7, 2008
- Medvedev assumes the Russian throne, arrives alone to his swearing ceremony.
- List of "unenviable policy challenges" awaiting Medvedev.
- Friedman: Mbeki is second in line for the world's most disgusting leader.
- Examining the (surely unlikely) appeal of a May-December McCain-Jindal ticket.
- Stephanopoulos: Look for supers to back Obama today; McGovern switches to Obama, believes he's still friends with the Clintons.
- I'm the Denzel Washington in Training Day of booking plane tickets online.
- Rise in oil prices spells good days for India's camel businesses.
- Exactly what an "infinity aquarium" looks like.
- Larry Doyle responds to his dog's manufactured memoir.
- All the artifice behind Niagara Falls, and all its influence.
- The influence of raw milk: full of healthy probiotics or barn-floor sludge?
- Your quantum computing crib sheet. (pdf)
- Eighty percent of Australians live within 80 miles of the sea; 50 percent of the country's houses sit less than 8 miles from a beach.
- Print for the commute: The must-read on human trafficking, the global sex trade, police corruption.
- Number of dead and missing in Burma passes 60,000; U.S. boosts aid, Bush digs in at junta.
- F.B.I. agents raid agency that protects government whistle-blowers, under accusations the agency was retaliated against their blowing.
- Following last month's Supreme Court ruling, executions resume--Georgia is the first out of the gate.
- "Absent some sort of miracle on May 31st, it's going to be tough for us." Clinton aides focus on reinstating Fla., Mich. results.
- It was fitting that this Democratic election, which has seemed at times designed by Willy Wonka, should head to a close in a flurry of confusion and drama.
- Sleeping pill precautions: Do not take with alcohol, hide your car keys, put an alarm on your bedroom door.
- Op: Finding no extraterrestrial life would be less depressing than finding the remains of it.
- Subcutaneous fat--particularly in the buttocks--may boost metabolism, reduce risk of diabetes.
- The notorious, provocative, scandalous filmmakers of our time.
- Animals stay dumb in order to preserve the species.
- Audio: "Posh" and "progress" together: Beijing can now cross "Zagat guide" off the list.
- "He will see it in a way that the majority of people don't see it." Meet Pascal Dangin, who works for everyone, retouching and airbrushing everyone else.
- The growing field of corporate espionage--spying on journalists, students, and workers--has been growing for a long time now.