Headlines from November 5, 2009
- Swine flu is now outpacing its vaccine, and high-priority groups may not get their jabs until well into December.
- There's a shortage of seasonal flu vaccine now as well--H1N1 concerns sparked increased demand.
- An underground shelter network in Baghdad offers Iraqi women refuge from violence.
- Dissecting fires with an L.A. arson investigator.
- Mexican pot gangs move closer to their U.S. customers, infiltrate national forests, Indian reservations.
- The farms of the future will grow upward.
- As medical marijuana dispensaries proliferate, munchie providers identify new revenue streams.
- Photos: Inside a Colombian prison.
- Interviews with the detective and her target in the real nabbing of an online sexual predator.
- A-Rod gets his first World Series ring; it's been a long journey.
- #drac: The wrap-up continues with the guides' likes and dislikes.
- Firewood delivers strong, lasting memories of a job well done.
- Our lives are being documented, in ways large and small and trivial and important. Why the internet is good.
- Evidence for why lowering the global fertility rate is improving the world.
- Iraqi government relies on useless divining rods to detect bombs.
- Romania makes up for lost culinary time with dishes like "pork bone + beans + pickles."
- Bush visits Japan to dispense baseball advice; chances are he regrets the Sosa trade more than the war in Iraq.
- Whitehead: As the secretary of postracial affairs, it's time to revise the culture.
- Photos of ventriloquists and their dummies.
- Instapaper for the commute: The (morally unacceptable) state of America's prisons.
- Panel of crime-fiction critics on the state of the procedural, the thriller, the cozy.
- For thriller writers, Glenn Beck is the new Oprah.
- The end of the astronaut may be brought about soon by unmanned probes.
- High-tech gear thrown through walls; favorite comic-book clichés.
- Video: Home movie reconstructions.
- Mickey Mouse's character is slowly being rebuilt; prepare for "cantankerous and cunning."
- Philadelphia Sudoku tournament sullied by brazen cheater.
- Human evolution is actually accelerating, speeding up to 100 times historical levels after agriculture spread. Ten mysteries of human evolution.