Headlines from May 14, 2008
- Clinton scores big West Virginia win, Obama retains "nearly insurmountable advantage" in delegates.
- And where has Giuliani been, post-bump? Consulting in Ukrainian urban politics.
- Ehrenreich: Clinton smashed the myth of innate female moral superiority in the worst possible way.
- Dating FAQ from Grand Theft Auto; marital rating chart from 1939.
- Clinton has been assuring white males she's come into their tavern not to smash the bottles, but to join the brawl.
- What it's like on a night out with the boys in Saudi Arabia.
- What guerilla gardening operations look like.
- Which is better for the environment, real grass or turf?
- Variety of middle-class adults make careful choice to use marijuana to enhance activities, study finds.
- "Smart" only an insult in Hollywood, Washington.
- Op for the commute: You've bought stolen goods from some of the world's poorest people.
- Democracy now threatened by your digital dumbness. (Those who'd rather sit on books than read them?)
- "I don't think it's strange for singers to act, or painters to sculpt." Johansson on her new album.
- The overview from Cannes.
- Photos of car owners, then and now; David Remnick's top 100 jazz albums.
- New Yorkers have reason to fear bedbugs on the subway.
- A booming economy, soaring literacy rates, and how false statistics belie the Burma military's inability to lead.
- "I think playing golf during a war just sends the wrong signal." Bush gave up the links in 2003.
- From 2006, "Golf Is a Highly Mental Game."
- In Barcelona, children learn to half-flush to save water.
- In Juneau, children forgo video games and boast of the kilowatts they've saved.
- On the two-second commentary of writer Chuck Lorre's (Two and a Half Men) vanity cards.
- Sleuthing to the bottom of why "April is the cruelest month" became one of April's hottest web searches.
- The U.K. puts its UFO files online, here.
- The Vatican approves belief in alien life.
- Einstein believed religion was little more than "human weakness."
- Artist Robert Rauschenberg died Monday night, age 82; see images of his work here.
- I didn't have a lot of savings, since people continued to pay me with hickory nuts. Atticus Finch remembers.