Headlines from October 30, 2009
- Without support from Merkel and Sarkozy, Blair sees chances slip of becoming Europe's super-president.
- Digging into the dealings of Blair, Inc.
- France wants to fist-bump across the Rhine to seal a European power-play, but Germany's not yet persuaded.
- Among rich countries, the more unequal ones do worse according to almost every quality of life indicator you can imagine.
- Best of Cheney's bellicose one-liners.
- Judge remembers Chirac's sleazy days and orders him to stand trial for ghost jobs scandal.
- Which manufactured consumer product has the deepest market penetration in rural India? Matches.
- Cuba braces for a communist crackdown on capitalistic farmers markets.
- Unforseen iPhone markets: amputees, porters, breastfeeders.
- Clim'City: The Sims of climate change.
- Pop science on why children love magic, but don't follow card tricks.
- There is nothing new about novelists borrowing the language of contemporary science. Refutation of the limp neuronovel theory.
- Americans take their "Tosca" gravely, down to the missing candlesticks. (Hey, John Adams has a blog.)
- Maira Kalman goes to Washington.
- "The Little Apple"--Easton, Pa.--is equidistant from New York and Philly, and fan feelings run both ways.
- We make you work for it in central Iowa. Halloween in Iowa is an exchange, not an extortion.
- The aesthetics of pastoral America and a look at the life of Dorothea Lange.
- Chart: Nearly half of online daters in Nevada think they're geniuses.
- Photo tour of Wilco's studio loft.
- Excerpts from TMN's Kevin Guilfoile's archive of old Chicago captured in 8mm.
- Typewriter sculptures, and art made from coffee cups.
- Does M&M stand for good? Or rather Murder & Maliciousness?