Headlines from April 29, 2009
- "Yes We Can Iran": Ahmadinejad borrows Obama's slogan for June election.
- Snowe: Specter's defection is a sign Republicans must heed Reagan's call that the party should tolerate inner disagreements.
- Synchrony rituals are powerful; moving and singing in unison builds group cohesiveness, provides competitive advantages.
- The first U.S. swine flu death is reported: a 23-month-old in Texas.
- Epidemics explain societal fears; plagues of the past led to Jewish exile, gay persecution.
- Flickr's geotagged photos create accidental maps of most photographed locations, show where our attention goes.
- Video: In search of China's frightening "black jails," where petitioning citizens are detained.
- Mayoral aide gets a disciplinary letter in his file for not relaying that Air Force One would strafe Manhattan, send New Yorkers into a panic.
- Earlier this month, unidentified attackers successfully brought down an American city's infrastructure.
- "We are, all of us, at risk, and medical science is powerless to stop it." Millions and millions dead.
- A sortable gallery of "Calvin pees" decals.
- Recently published: Conversations With Julian Barnes includes one of Birnbaum's many chats with the author of Flaubert's Parrot and Arthur & George.
- Searching for guitars on eBay, man stumbles across axe stolen from Sonic Youth in 1999--he buys it, returns it, restores order.
- House approves Obama's budget plan 233-193 without a single Republican vote.
- Facebook-style visualization of the Senate shows Specter never had many Republican friends.
- Nine moments that mattered in Obama's first 100 days.
- Even during the Depression, I'm not sure prices fell this quickly. Home prices in Phoenix have fallen in half.
- A year after the murderous cyclone, diplomats report a chink appearing in Myanmar's political wall.
- Kenyan mosquito net manufacturers crack down on those who would use nets as dresses or fishing tackle.
- Official theme of China's naval parade was "harmonious ocean"; China's neighbors wish it were true.
- China has "modest number" of mentally ill (100 million), but no way is it linked to country's rise, insists expert.
- Today's pdf journal: Contemporary Psychotherapy.
- Mug shots may entertain us, but they also erode the presumption of innocence.
- Op: Inviting Belarus's Lukashenko to the party shows the EU lacks principled policy and plain old smarts.
- Pope takes a picture with Europe's last dictator.
- He will be remembered as a one-man genre; no one else is remotely like him. He was a talisman. Martin Amis remembers J.G. Ballard.
- Dante's Inferno now a video game.
- Video: Pregnant women are smug.