Headlines from October 6, 2009
- The red and the black: The "unprecedented" rise of gangsters and gangster behavior in China.
- Whatever McChrystal's intentions when he spoke out last week in London, the episode has worked to Obama's short-term benefit.
- Rwandan intelligence chief, accused of significant role in 1994 genocide, captured in Uganda.
- Annotated workspace and low-tech toolkit of an urban entomologist.
- Instapaper for the commute: It only takes a little imagination to marry art and science.
- The future of wine is bagged.
- Op: Before we go proclaiming this the age of the American tightwad, a little perspective is in order.
- U.S. now using trash to power the army.
- In Miami, squatters become homeowners as the city tries to turn around foreclosed buildings.
- Ohio has 88 counties, and a piano has 88 keys; reason enough to make an interactive musical map.
- Photos of an extreme camouflage artist; pictures of cutaways.
- Today in pixel-thin pop life: Levi Johnston pitches pistachios.
- Ten artists working with folded paper.
- We're not exactly talking about necks, right? Notes on toothsome erotica popping up in Dracula.
- Election trends in Europe show desire for capitalists to deal with capitalism's crisis.
- Op: Unlike Americans, Europeans don't worry about neighbors not playing fair.
- Obama to appease China by skipping Dalai Lama photo op--useless gesture anyway, officials say, that snubs Tibet.
- Feeling threatened, people cling to biases, but learn more when they embrace the absurd, studies find.
- Medvedev is trying to help Russians drink less, but, "he doesn't stand a chance. Russians don't surrender."
- To be gay in Iraq is to risk death; New York group helps expats find asylum.
- Numbers on why gay couples have it more expensive than straights--i.e., the toll road vs. the car-pool lane.
- Sandwich price calculator for the economically conscious (or obsessive-compulsive).
- Converting statistics using billions into squares.
- Facebook status updates from superheroes.
- Full-time editor husband and part-time writer wife swap jobs.
- They're books, and you can't throw away a book, can you? Ebert's a big softie for his bookshelves.
- Our cells' ability to destroy themselves may help us live longer; "every three days, you basically have a new heart."
- Today's pop science: Nine-year-old's crippling pain soothed by pot cookies.
- Bizarre police sketches of suspects; awful courtroom drawings of celebrities.
- Stunning finalists from Nikon's "Small World" competition; gambling odds on the Nobel Prize for Literature.
- Video: Wonderful little film of a shadow world.