Headlines from September 23, 2008
- Joe Biden returns to the media's radar, wooing middle class voters with words like "helluva" and "malarkey."
- Obama scales back ambitious 50-state strategy, abandoning Alaska, other hockey-crazed states.
- Republicans are fighting on racial grounds, even when express references to race are not evident.
- Some linguistic notes on "uppity" usage.
- Graph of the candidates' tax plans, each income bracket drawn to scale based on population.
- When seeking peace in the Middle East, should the U.S. back the Palestinian leader or focus on building civil society?
- Thirty years of peace later, no one wants to be Israel's ambassador to Egypt.
- Behind the science of new camoflauge patterns.
- Studies find doctors' clothes--ties, long sleeves--can be "a reservoir for risky germs."
- Man never throws away his trash, keeps non-recyclable garbage in his basement (see blog).
- Riding down the Golden Quadrilateral, the brand-new, 3,633-mile expressway linking Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, and Kolkata.
- Alex Ross, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie win MacArthur fellowships.
- Because Harrison is as masculine and raw and unrelenting as they come. Despite inane captions, Esquire's "75 Books Every Man Should Read" is for babes, too.
- After calling it irrelevant, Bush expected to recognize the U.N.'s practicality at the general assembly.
- FBI searches apartment of university student thought to have hacked Palin's email--the IP addresses, however, don't match.
- Today's long read: Thomas Frank on how modern conservatism has been warped by ideologues and "outsiders."
- George F. Will: It is arguable that McCain, because of his boiling moralism and bottomless reservoir of certitudes, is not suited to the presidency.
- Bush administration alumni are driving the McCain campaign team--it's logical to choose those who know winning.
- Biking to work or attending a protest once a month won't seem so far-fetched anymore. From Largehearted Boy's excellent "Why Obama?" series.
- Bike and car production since the 1950s.
- More bikes on the road mean fewer bike accidents, study suggests.
- In New York, Sarkozy and Bruni go "le jogging"; Rosecrans Baldwin on Parisian tastes in exercise.
- How do you do! I am the little book that you have made. A collection of stories by fifth-graders in 1931.
- Video: Frank Lloyd Wright on What's My Line?
- For the sake of baseball fields, why we need more male cake decorators.
- Knut's zookeeper, who hand-reared the polar bear, found dead, age 44.