Headlines from November 17, 2009
- Following their trip to Iran, I.A.E.A. inspectors raise concerns secret nuclear installations may exist.
- Brooks: China has faith in its future, and it seems to be working--why don't we?
- It is not known why, but West Indian men are three times more likely to die of prostate cancer than white men here in the U.K.
- Though emergency rooms can't discriminate based on ability to pay, the uninsured are 80 percent more likely to die from traumatic injuries.
- A woman marries her fiance a year after he died; legal in France, there are dozens of posthumous weddings each year.
- This year's Oxford Word of the Year is "unfriend": To remove someone as a "friend" on a social networking site such as Facebook.
- Tell us: What are your nontraditional holiday traditions?
- Geological apocalypse is a better bet. Physicist looks at 2012 prognostications, recommends you continue paying your mortgage.
- Illustrator renders Shakespearean plays as graphic novels.
- Polish children's books; the most botched adaptations of children's books.
- TMN's Sarah Hepola investigates the phenomena of 30-something, book-loving, romance-novel-eschewing women addicted to Twilight.
- Man-wolves plague Wisconsin.
- Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi seeks models to convert to Islam.
- Slideshow of potential candidates for our next president.
- Op: Egyptians playing political games are too stupid to appreciate the artifacts we stole.
- Citizen disarmament in Yemen threatens to dull the fun of shooting guns at weddings.
- Now that porn is portable, public viewing is increasingly popular, making many uncomfortable.
- The game's perverse achievement was to make me feel bad about myself. The anti-war case for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2.
- Evidence shows you shouldn't trust wine critics, mutual fund managers, or political experts--but you will anyway.
- Gladwell calls Pinker a Google wank in a muscly and polite reply to Pinker's recent critique.
- Op: Plagiarism online is called aggregation.
- Africa's frequently called a single country by outsiders--shades on the conundrum from a conference of African writers.
- Lovely Paula Fox on New York real estate and L.J. Davis.
- A walk through an English cardboard factory.
- A map you do not want to possess for your vacation home.