Headlines from November 20, 2009
- F.I.F.A. turns down Ireland's request to replay the handball-tainted playoff match against France.
- Brooks: Geithner and Obama saved the global economy and deserve credit.
- The case for This American Life as the newest propaganda arm of the conservative movement.
- Positive correlation found between a country's belief in hell and the strength of its economy.
- Will Ferrell rated by Forbes as Hollywood's worst investment property.
- Senator Santorum enjoys laughing, but he doesn't know any jokes. Comedian poses as 10-year-old to get politicians to share jokes.
- Louis Armstrong's memoir of a Jewish family shows his take on the moral failings of his own people.
- Analysis of various superheroes' powers' scientific properties.
- Christo committed to honoring the promise he and Jeanne-Claude made to each other: to continue the work.
- Weekend activity: Tell us about your nontraditional holiday traditions.
- Long, nuanced account of renegade whaling and contemporary American Indian law.
- Slideshow: Death masks of Keats, Robespierre, Lincoln.
- Profile of "the world's most problematic political prisoner," Khodorkovsky, once Russia's richest man, now its most famous prisoner.
- Irish program where young criminals apologize in lieu of imprisonment sees decrease in reoffenders.
- Shanghai is obsessed with real estate like New York, and like New York it's unlike the rest of its country.
- Costa Rican scientists build rocket to pick up space garbage.
- Op: Now that water's been discovered on the moon, we can start building our new homes.
- Ten senators draw their own states; Saxby Chambliss has no idea what Georgia looks like.
- High-falutin' rock-and-roll dust-up between Radiohead, Fiery Furnaces, and Beck.
- Bates Gill, Bill Gates; Milton Glaser discusses drawing while drawing; many bookshelves.