Headlines from May 19, 2008
- Obama promises change to 75,000 in Oregon (photos); Thai Prime Minister promises change by quitting job as TV chef.
- Print for the commute: How the conservative movement ran out of ideas.
- Clinton: "This is nowhere near over."
- Audio: How a reporter relied on Buffy (the Vampire Slayer) during her time in Baghdad.
- Five most clichéd foreign policy quotations and references (more).
- Op: If we believe in divine creation, we are forced to admit that God must be either evil or a bungler.
- The 100 must-read books for the making of a man.
- "It sounds like stereotypes...but these stereotypes have a germ of truth." Qualified women just aren't interested in science and tech.
- When it's acceptable for middle-aged men to have teenaged dates; Britain's worst poet in demand.
- U.S. Olympic swimmers study and mimic sharks, dolphins.
- Audio: The Hubble, and other worldwide telescopes, now available for free online (here).
- And please note, we want your vacation picks!
- China deploys armed guards to protect pandas in quake's aftermath; Japanese officials: We don't like pandas very much.
- "We knew we were in trouble when the Serbs stopped delivering our flour." Through war, upheaval, and independence, Kosovoan bakers just keep baking.
- Reminding critics of the Soviet era, Putin creates an executive body within the Kremlin.
- California annuls "no-longer necessary statute" banning members of the Communist Party from public agencies.
- Russian religious cult trying to hide in an underground cave until the end of the world is thwarted by corpse fumes.
- Two-thirds of the subway elevators...had at least one breakdown last year in which passengers were trapped inside; map of faulty MTA elevators.
- Out of options and desperate for funds, McCain taps Republican Party, who--to McCain's chagrin--will tap dollar-magnet W.
- Why some feminist leaders have thrown their support Obama's way: It's not about gender.
- "We did silly stuff, like talk about David Geffen." Clinton's staff members comment anonymously on what went wrong.
- Forty years of presidential campaign logos.
- Resurrecting a defunct brand has as much to do with what consumers misremember as what they recall.
- Video: Drew Burrows's interactive sleeping partner.
- Erik Satie, great-great-grandfather of shoegaze rock, has a birthday.