Headlines from February 11, 2009
- Bank leaders go on the charm offensive, say they have every incentive to lend and are lending.
- Some representatives call bankers heroes, others say they're connivers.
- Op: Settle down. Obama's start is actually going rather well.
- Africom says the U.S. advised, but didn't run, the Ugandan attempt to kneecap the Lord's Resistance Army.
- What Americans lack is what the European working classes gleefully exhibit: resentment of the rich personally.
- Schwarzenegger says 20,000 state jobs will be cut if budget agreement isn't met soon--and people would like to know what he's doing behind locked doors with top legislators.
- Pornography viewed as recession-proof despite recent downturn.
- Books on the Nightstand: the recession gives you time to read.
- Authoritarian regimes tolerate "cyber-hedonism" as long as the young avoid politics.
- Scientists are not divided on climate change, the crisis cannot be "solved," and quit blaming China.
- Why you should blow your nose one nostril at a time, or not at all.
- To get diagnoses and treatment plans right, we need doctors who know us over time, and who have the time to know us.
- Photos: Fireworks get out of hand at Beijing Lantern Festival, burn down Rem Koolhaas-designed building.
- A look at buildings that looks like Sandcrawlers from Star Wars, including a Koolhaas facade.
- Climate change fuels Australian fires--expect more heat waves, drought, extreme weather everywhere.
- Irreversible does not mean unstoppable. The further we turn the carbon-emissions ratchet, the harder it is to turn it back.
- Water-line of Greenland ice-melt projected onto British buildings.
- Though bad for climate change, British motto "Keep Calm And Carry On" is good for wars, recessions.
- Daewoo's Madagascan land-grab, planning to feed South Korea for years, fuels local violence, revolt.
- "There's a genocide going on." To many, M.I.A. is the pregnant rapper; she's using her new spotlight to expose Sri Lankan strife, tacitly promote the Tamil Tigers.
- Attention writers who read: The call for submissions in L Magazine's annual Literary Upstart: The Search for Pocket Fiction competition is now open.
- Attention Tournament of Books followers: Official Rooster wear is now available.
- Ad agency internal document reveals the new Pepsi logo is the center of the universe.
- A retrospective of the days when advertising was artwork: Charlie Allen's blog.
- This is what I think whenever I see one of the new Pepsi ads.