Headlines from October 28, 2009
- Ecuador will drill for oil in pristine Amazon rainforest unless the world pays it $3 billion.
- Trib investigation finds Illinois nursing homes keep the peace by overdosing residents on psychotropics.
- Chris Ware's terrific Halloween-themed gatefold comic in this week's New Yorker.
- The deadline is tonight to tell TMN about the first time you saw a horror movie.
- Why we use definite articles for some places--e.g., the Bronx, the Hague?
- Autistic man takes a 20-minute helicopter ride over N.Y.C., draws skyline from memory.
- Op: California is more or less over.
- Agassi admits crystal meth during his tennis career, no longer blames the soda.
- Using physics to stop your teapot from dripping.
- Understand rap.
- Related: Is rapper Kanye West dead? (What?)
- Siberians lobby to legalize polygamy, say it's essential to sustain societal growth.
- Their silence...spoke volumes. Chimps grieve a fellow ape's death.
- Photos: Germany's rainbow stairs; each step represents a different emotion.
- The order by which people are admitted to heaven.
- Maine is gay marriage's new battleground; if the law's upheld, the movement gains its first ballot-box victory.
- Instpaper for the commute: Invoking Stalin in today's debates is frivolous, and it disrespects his victims.
- Friedman: We can't afford 20 years of rebuilding Afghanistan; better to stay strong and fight another day.
- Op: When Krauthammer disses Brazil and Obama in the same breath, he disses himself.
- Diddy goes to Brazil and likes what he sees.
- Seven strategies the U.S. can learn from Byzantine statecraft.
- Statistic: All 130,000 Iraqi refugees in Syria currently receiving food aid from the U.N. have mobile phones.
- South Africa and Lesotho enter the top 10 in the World Economic Forum's Global Gender Gap Index.
- Naples's notoriously violent female mafia is gaining regional authority.
- Former "fishing business" owner, i.e., marijuana smuggler, seeks employment.
- Lessons Thomas Keller learned from cooking his long-lost father's last meal.
- Oxfam's interactive graphics explain trade rigging.
- Hitchens: An atheist and a pastor walk into many bars... (see trailer).
- John Irving novels analyzed for recurring themes, e.g., bears, Vienna, wrestling.
- Report: the motion aftereffect illusion can be reproduced by imagination.
- Scientific processes/stuff illustrated by household objects.
- Photos of the construction of the Golden Gate Bridge.
- Video: Anne Frank in a nutshell: A girl at a window, looking fearlessly at the sky.
- Fantasies of a New Yorker lusting after real estate.