Headlines from October 12, 2009

Professor Elinor Ostrom becomes the first woman to win the Nobel Prize for economics.
"We're going to treat them the way we would treat an opponent." White House opens fire on Fox News.
"There is a problem of having to ship out the largest outreach of immunization in our nation's history in the shortest time period."
W.H.O. says about 100 developing nations will receive H1N1 vaccine donations.
Report: In developing countries, international activism may be increasing child labor.
Scientists send a form of life--encased in metal--to space to see if it will survive.
#drac: Let's consider the book as "an inversion of the Christian mythos."
For the past 350 days, Nina Sankovitch has read a book a day, every day.
Gladwell on football, dogfighting, and brain damage.
New from Neiman Marcus: $200K gets dinner with Gladwell, Gopnik, Christopher Buckley, and other large brains.
Writers and artists respond to climate change.
TMN's Clay Risen on the controversy over the 2,000th anniversary of the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest in Germany.
Straight outta Albany: A profile of TMN's Tobias Seamon.
A nice pair of photos of Ice Cube.
Emergency task force to bombard world media with positive news about Italy's products and Berlusconi.
Congressman fulfills childhood dream of surviving seven days alone on an island.
Japanese learn English from Obama; sensation is like "listening to good music."
Photos of Hakku Tulou apartments in China, some of the first developed bastions of communal living.
The North Korean landscape could be said to resemble the Pacific Northwest--but substantially drained of color. Growing up in North Korea.
Dialogue: "If hotels were aid agencies."
Instapaper for the commute: Exploring the boundaries between sleep and wakefulness.
The irony of "don't ask, don't tell" is that it protects bigots and punishes gays who comply.
Stratford-upon-Avon outsources its big-brother crimespotting to anyone with a web connection.
Calling all trust-funders and alcoholic editors: Magazines are fun, with Ramparts providing case in point (Birnbaum makes the case).
Urban sketchers: telling the story of their surroundings, one drawing at a time.
The productive terror of becoming a book-a-year author.
Nicholson Baker wishes he could write thrillers, instead he records himself talking.
Photographs from Bell Labs in the '60s; lifeguard tower designs.
Newly developed color-changing solar tiles adjust to the air temperature and heat your house accordingly.