Headlines from February 24, 2010
- The 2010 Winter Olympics set out to be the greenest games, a goal that helped reduce the impact of shipping in all that snow.
- How the Pentagon uses video games and other "militainment" to recruit a new crop of crack shots.
- "If there are no further recalls and everything goes well on Wednesday, people in the U.S. will be just as happy to go on and forget about it."
- Take a pencil to write with on aeroplanes. Pens leak. Writers give writing advice.
- Tob Judge Molly Young responds, finds the value of a list of such specific advice.
- Video: The world's most generic news report; the world's most Juggalo news report.
- Because his diamonds are implanted--not on a grill--Lil' Wayne can bring his teeth to Rikers.
- A Paula Deen dinner party injures guests' palates, includes a running count of butter and cheese.
- M.I.T. student designs wheelchair for the third world.
- Former prom king now living anonymously among commoners.
- French retirees live longer than any other retirees.
- The world's most expensive flowers.
- Video: Chicago's Cabrini-Green disappears beneath wrecking balls.
- Just in case some liberals weren't sure, the public option is dead, say Democratic leaders.
- Carter: Foreign Policy got me all wrong.
- Op: With black male unemployment at 17.6%, undocumented workers are hurting African-Americans.
- Germans furious about paying for greedy, pampered Greeks' pensions.
- Combat-zone pictures by some of the world's best war photographers.
- Stones tell TMN's Anthony Doerr to enjoy his coffee because he's very, very small in the big picture.
- Story behind Sal Manetta's incredibly personal, whimsical manuals for Franklin computers.
- Loving, long alleluia for the evolving powers of Google's search algorithm.
- Studies show: Sitting is bad for you, particularly if you sit all day long.
- More computer metaphors: Naps help clear your brain's inbox.
- New Yorker editor won't "pump up" Obama story for a book, definitely won't "pimp it out" either.
- Video: Margaret Cho's "My Lil Wayne."
- James Frey operates under multiple pen names.
- Stephen Baldwin's less famous older brother. Leader of the Baldwins. The 10-word wiki offers an encyclopedia for the ADD-generation.
- Poems by former Hitler Youth excerpted from "documents by Holocaust planners, perpetrators, and victims."
- Audio of the Mars rovers Spirit and Opportunity.
- Scaled chart of ocean depth.