Headlines from February 8, 2010
- Two years after rallying Wall St. for record donations, Obama is rebuked by Chase's G.O.P. support.
- Many worry Canada's housing recovery may have been so swift that it will cause another bubble.
- Palin calls not considering a 2012 presidential run "absurd," even though it wasn't written on her hand.
- How a man arrested for attacking his prostitute girlfriend and ex-wife (while on a steroidal rage) became Illinois's new lieutenant governor.
- America's worst political ads.
- How the Letterman-Oprah-Leno Super Bowl spot came together without CGI.
- We meant to give it to you when you bought your Prius, in your Prius, to secure the engine block.
- This year's Olympic medals are made from recycled electronic parts.
- All my life I have grafted fistfuls of dimly grasped concepts to a series of barely articulated goals. Going whole grain.
- TMN seek a winter intern; applications due next Monday.
- For Kevin Nguyen, karaoke has taken him from the living room to the Czech Republic--just like Taylor Swift.
- "It's the God-damnedest thing I've ever seen." Vintage Yalies react to their alma mater's new admissions video.
- Scientists make model of dinosaur as it actually was: with feathers.
- Yulia Tymoshenko refuses to concede in Ukraine, but many doubt she'll have time to prove there were violations.
- Five possible benefits to the U.S. should Iran build a bomb.
- Mexico City's homicide rate today is less than a third of that for Washington, D.C.
- Wisconsin and Kansas rated as top states for spotting highway-side sculpture.
- Story of a professor's response when a student is jailed on a terrorism charge (and what books she sent him in prison).
- Distance is no protection these days. Change is invading Patagonia by water, by sea and hydropower.
- Account of what it's like to visit a plate boundary on land, "the line demarking the collision of two massive tectonic plates."
- Audio slideshow explores the colorful world of plankton.
- Scientist tells Sunday Times they got a story wrong about blondes; Times says he misunderstands his own data.
- Video footage of the launch of STS-130 (see also photos), the last night launch.
- Video analysis on how to perform a triple lutz-triple toe loop.
- Tuesday poem: "The Fluffer Talks of Eternity," by D.A. Powell.
- Only 1,289 independent bookstores remain in the U.K.