Headlines from May 9, 2008
- North Korea hands over boxes of nuclear-related documents, clearing way for removal from U.S. terrorism blacklist.
- Comparing lists, Obama now tied with Hillary for superdelegates.
- Op: The only thing left for Hillary is to negotiate the terms of her surrender.
- McCain takes time, early steps to prepare for the big race.
- What one week of news in the Guardian newspaper looks like graphically.
- On the separation of verbatim memory from gist memory in the brain.
- Study of the stratospheric amounts ballet companies spend on toe shoes.
- Mexico's national police chief assassinated; cartels blamed for killing 6,000 in 2.5 years.
- If you ever get tired of the steampunk lifestyle--AND HOW COULD YOU--good luck trying to sell your clockwork top hat on consignment. Todd Levin discovers steampunk.
- Steampunk, you say, praytell what be that?
- Man infiltrates pet psychics by posing as his own dog.
- Word problems for future hedge-fund managers.
- Hilarious: The Harper's (Bazaar) Index.
- If you're a married woman living in the New York City area, there's a better than 50 percent chance that you don't work.
- Cities can prepare to see marketing soon in logo-shaped clouds.
- We are prepared to love transparent Post-it Notes.
- Get academic: The journal of cartoon over-analyzations.
- As Clinton continues campaigning, Obama returns to Washington, ready to unify Democrats for November.
- After two days of fighting, Hezbollah forces seize most of western Beirut.
- Touring Guantanamo exhibit displays replica of a maximum-security cell.
- Subtle: Wytham Woods are home to about 400 breeding pairs of great tits.
- The pigeons are a problem, so Venice is quitting the birdseed business.
- I always wondered what would happen if marijuana were legalized for anyone over 18. It seems it already has been, and nothing happened.
- White House report links teen pot smoking to depression, mental illness.
- Will the Fritzl children ever recover? Can they even survive?
- Further improvements in medicine and technology may not make any difference to the chances of life before 24 weeks.
- Things to know before you go on a baseball vacation in the Dominican Republic.
- Trampy girls at batting practice...This strategy may work in the minors. Ten people to avoid at the ballpark.
- Video: Sad Kermit plays "Needle in the Hay," reenacts The Royal Tenenbaums.
- Where we do what we do--where do you do what you do?