Headlines from March 26, 2010
- F.B.I. investigates threats against Democrats who voted for health care reform.
- Activist to transform Maldives atoll into "Democracy Island," a camp to learn nonviolent political change.
- Economist's assessment of health care reform: coverage to be expanded dramatically, but at a heavy cost to the taxpayer.
- Op: The Paralympic Games encourage athletes to be good--just not too good.
- Professional golf crashed when the Tiger Bubble exploded; Tour officials hope for (someday) a revived Tiger, though perhaps not an idealized one.
- Saturday morning read: Questions asked of "our visceral aversion to interspecies sex."
- New technology for fingerprinting chemical weapons traces by-products.
- The amount of moisture has not changed. The water the dinosaurs drank is the same that falls as rain today.
- How Michelle Obama's war on obesity overlooks a crucial collaborator: canned fruit.
- Call for an EMP (electromagnetic pulse) Recognition Day, wherein U.S. representatives would turn off their BlackBerries.
- "Crazy, Magic, Impossible"--how Polaroid film was reinvented.
- Transcription of philosopher-wordplay graffiti found in a University of Chicago bathroom.
- David Mamet master class contained in a memo to TV writers.
- Photos: Three weeks in Steve McQueen's world.
- Inside the Barbizon Hotel: New York dorm for small-town girls--Joan Crawford, Grace Kelly, Candice Bergen--who became stars.
- Videos: Emil Richards and the Microtonal Blues Band; Super Smart Action Squirrel.