Headlines from March 10, 2009
- Truck that hit Tsvangirai's car, killing his wife, turns out to have been a USAID vehicle.
- Treasury department not answering its phones, says U.K. cabinet secretary.
- How the quants (physicists on Wall Street) came to be, and came to be slandered by Warren Buffett.
- Op: Merging big pharma companies kills research, reflects defensive strategies.
- Being worried about getting laid off is worse for mental health than getting laid off, says Cambridge sociologist.
- Predicting the hot topic in decision-making science two years from now: abhorrence of uncertainty.
- Brooks: Republicans are failing worse than before at fiscal responsibility; voila, three ways they could lead.
- Franken still not even close to being seated in Senate--could be months, or not at all.
- Instapaper for the commute: Sailing with pirates and Langewiesche.
- Analysis of China's policy towards the Middle East.
- Review of new methods to trap and track animals for research (evolved beyond "capture, mark, recapture.")
- John Leonard's son analyzes dad's writing with a computer, comes up with 10 most important words (e.g., "moxie," "thug").
- Ten newspapers that may go digital-only or die.
- Sixth section of 2666 and two other novels found among Bolaño's papers in Spain.
- From yesterday: Kevin and John comment from the booth on 2666 and Steer Toward Rock (plus reader comments).
- Not enough Pakistanis have taken a stand against the Talibanisation of their country. Op: Terrorism, extremism left unchecked in Pakistan.
- The Institute for the Intellectual Development of Children and Young Adults developed sibling dolls named Sara and Dara, Muslim versions of Barbie and Ken.
- "Mother, look. I have made a doll from a small rock. I will call my doll Rockelle." Confessions of a Pilgrim shopaholic.
- In-depth look at America's evolving demography--a restless population drifting to perceived opportunity.
- There is a "green lining" to the global economic downtown: Pollution-happy factories are closing down.
- In praise of embryo-derived stem cell research--an explanation of the advances that lie ahead.
- Saletan: The danger of seeing the stem-cell war as a contest between science and ideology is that you bury these dilemmas.
- Potential baldness cure leads man to reverse position on stem-cell research.
- "We are trying to build Alexandria 2.0." Internet Archive founder tries to preserve the history of the web, archiving while Google collects.
- San Francisco riled by increasing frequency, cost of "counter-cultural" flash mobs.
- Surowiecki: Credit card companies try to shed their worst customers--but determining "best" and "worst" in credit terms isn't so simple.
- Video: Watchmen as a Saturday morning cartoon.
- A New York Times graphics editor's collection of map bloopers and other graphic accidents.