Headlines from May 8, 2008
- Obama switches to general-election strategy; Republicans focus attack ads on Obama.
- Pelosi: Woah there, the race is still alive and well.
- Pick a Veep: for Obama, for Clinton.
- Roger Ebert on the movie to be made when the Clintons realize they've lost.
- Gallery: Bil Eppridge's images of Bobby Kennedy's presidential campaign.
- TMN's Rosecrans Baldwin's latest digital ramble for the Times Moment blog.
- Facebook has leaked out of the college dormitory and has begun infecting grown men in disturbingly vast numbers.
- Austrian incest father says he's "not a monster" since he never killed his daughter.
- London mayor keeps promise, bans drinking alcohol on public transportation.
- Remembering the scientific battle to fight sloth, including the grafting of monkey testicles.
- Nature as metaphor for politics: On China's Tai Lake, polluted, poisonous, and immune to efforts to enforce a clean-up.
- Where not to go on your summer vacation; R. Kelly is going to court--eventually, maybe.
- Saddam's prison diaries reveal he was worried about catching an STD from his guards' laundry.
- Print for the commute: In case you missed it, Richard Price on the editing of Clockers.
- In what is being called the first conceptual terrorist attack on American soil, the landmark Sears Tower was encased in strawberry gelatin.
- First U.N. aid flights arrive in Burma; despite reports to the contrary, officials still refuse U.S. access.
- Burma's junta has so frustrated aid workers that the French foreign minister recommended the U.N. enter Burma without permission.
- This week, 11 opposition activists were beaten to death by Mugabe supporters.
- "We're giving the people of Zimbabwe another opportunity to mend their ways, to vote properly." Mugabe's militias boost intimidation campaign.
- On Limbaugh's "Operation Chaos," and how not all Republican votes for Democrats can be chalked up to mischief.
- Those who sleep less are prone to smoke more--or is it that those who smoke more are prone to sleep less?
- Winning the war on meth: Surveys, police statistics confirm the drug is in sharp decline.
- Tracking the media upswing in creating the next drug menace, the still-legal Salvia divinorum.
- The CEO of Adidas talks tracksuits and the politics of the Olympics.
- Fast food gone free range: Chipotle's deal with the pigs.
- Ten new terms to improve the quality of internet insults.
- The tricky world of the New York bicyclist: getting "doored" and other holdups.
- Artist Jason Polan is drawing everyone in New York, maybe even you.