Headlines from October 26, 2009
- Times reporter David Rohde's Afghanistan kidnapping account could serve as a guide for how best to deal with the Taliban.
- How the Red Cross delivers letters to hostages.
- By effectively cornering the market on anti-Administration animus, Fox News has had a robust 2009 so far.
- Some researchers theorize that we may have evolved from rocks--proton-powered rocks, but rocks nonetheless.
- Video examines why a notable Cuban artist, famous for delving into secretive male worlds, committed suicide.
- Maps depict state-by-state U.S. remarriage rates for men and women.
- Op: Sesame Street was more than a TV show--it was a brilliantly executed government program.
- Wealthy parents are injecting their vertically challenged children with human growth hormone to give them a literal and physical leg up.
- Certainly you remember the sleepless week that followed; tell us your first horror movie experience.
- Today's long read: How medical robots could someday teach us to heal.
- Now on display at New York's Museum of Arts and Design: the art of paper manipulation.
- At the very least, as Truman Capote happily observed, Avedon was interested in "the mere condition of a face."
- "He didn't look particularly comfortable." Morrissey recovering after collapsing during a concert.
- Obama weighs outcome of Afghanistan war game; watchers wait for McChrystal to fly to D.C.
- Op: Obama's surveillance tools are the same as Bush's: served with glib assurances.
- At-home cosmetic lasers gaining popularity, and plastic surgeons everywhere are worried.
- Interior decorating with Augusten Burroughs.
- Distinct anti-Michael Moore movie industry emerging, rankling the ranklers (and the rankled).
- Brooklyn writer heads to Mecca to perform hajj, discovers tolerance, eats halal Hardee's.
- Egypt attempts to blacklist Beyoncé.
- Perhaps I'm just getting old, but lately I've been hearing songs I like in the Container Store. Judging a place by its muzak.
- Studies find that if you want people to work well as a team, give them sweaters or a warm climate.
- How Letterman and his team experienced the blackmail reveal.
- Historians say the battle of Agincourt, basis of English pride, was a more even fight than previously believed.
- Soccer players with exposure to civil wars are more likely to get yellow cards during matches.
- Disney offers refunds to parents of children harmed by Baby Einstein videos.
- Dead, brutalised women sell books, dead men don't. Crime novelist quits reviewing crime novels after too many books turn up torturing women.
- Accounts of citizens most likely murdered by powerful Malaysians.
- Descriptions of pain from the Schmidt Sting Pain Index.
- #drac: Right in time for Halloween: Survey with samples of Dracula adaptations.