Headlines from March 3, 2009
- Business is booming for people who can give good voice to debt-collection.
- Cohen: It's worth recalling that hateful, ultranationalist rhetoric is no Iranian preserve.
- "How Jew-Friendly Persia Became Anti-Semitic Iran."
- Tutu: African leaders opposing the arrest of Sudan's al-Bashir forget that his victims are Africans.
- Mexican cab drivers run Hollywood-style tours of drug-trafficker haunts, complete with gun-battle reenactments.
- Trial of Arizona guns dealer brings to light the many American guns toted by Mexcian drug thugs.
- From the medical case files, the death of Libby Zion: catalyst for revising residents' hours in hospitals.
- Analyzing when and where landscape painting died, and how it's returned to life in sometimes unrecognized places.
- Notes on the medicinal value of Fowler's Modern English Usage.
- Instapaper for the commute: Profile of the Mugrabi family--investors in Pop, Koons, and Hirst--as canaries in the art mine.
- Another printable option: Meet the oil sands industry.
- Impressive analysis of previous years' Tournaments of Books turns up interesting results (see also part II).
- Mike Leigh discusses his filmmaking process, how he chooses actors, etc.
- Rare photos of "Solburun" hunting festival in Kyrgyzstan.
- Yesterday U.S. stocks hit their lowest level since 1997--yet the dollar is gaining, as economic prospects abroad look comparatively worse.
- We will no longer be serving complimentary cold cuts and soda on Cold Cuts and Soda Day. Stairs will go up, but not down.
- Iraqis with new security and wealth are snatching up SUVs like they're going out of style--and in the U.S., they are.
- Every second: 1.6 cars made, 0.15 deaths by smoking, 200 stars born.
- "Blackwater can't change the fact that its lethal actions have resulted in the deaths of innocent Iraqi civilians."
- As instability continues in Sri Lanka, gunmen attack the national cricket team.
- Photos from "Chicago," an Israeli-built mock Arab town used to train military.
- The media stays hush on the far-right politics of the Pirate Bay's financial backer out of "geek sympathies."
- I'm actually on Bale's side on this. A professional grip knows you don't walk through the sightline. How to talk like you're in the movies.
- CPAC keynoter Limbaugh accuses Obama of "bastardizing" the Constitution, then bastardizes it himself by confusing it with the Declaration of Independence.
- Jackassletters.com: When prank letters to corporations are answered.
- General Mills begins shipping retro cereal boxes--the roller-skating Trix rabbit emits satisfaction rather than A.D.D.
- Video: Robot meets lighthouse.