Headlines from September 15, 2010
- Weeks ago, typhoon killed dozens and wrought havoc in North Korea, world now learns.
- Scientists struggle to understand why most East Asians have the "depression gene," but few get depressed.
- Unexpected visitors to Ground Zero: British white supremacists wearing a symbol of the Crusades.
- Inspiring apologies collected from around the internet.
- It was not pro bono. Israel acquires @israel Twitter handle from Spanish pornographer.
- Italian Mafia hoped to launder assets through the "Lord of the Wind," a Sicilian green-business baron.
- Op: Animal-rights activists forget silent, long-suffering fish.
- Kinsley: The least the Boomers should do, prior to dying, is pay heavy estate taxes and rescue the economy.
- Video: Pennies are awful (also nickels).
- Writer spends three days with a modeling agency's scout; dreams are destroyed.
- In a society of Einsteins, Einsteins take out the garbage, scrub floors, and wash dishes.
- Tom Morris interview with TMN's Kevin Guilfoile about ideas in The Thousand.
- Op: In art history, credit kitsch with saving the avant-garde.
- R.I.P, Houston's David Thompson.
- Across religion, ethnicity and class, many terrorists have one thing in common: They're engineers.
- The Pope's impending visit to England sparks a lively business in papal memorabilia.
- Record numbers of lapsed Catholics in Belgium are rushing to the altar to "de-baptize."
- As France bans the burqa, other European nations consider similar laws to force integration.
- How Sharia law freed a Muslim woman, where American law failed.
- Human rights group prepares a reporter's guide on how not to get played by Ahmadinejad. (pdf here)
- Reporters party with: balloon artists and bug eaters.
- Tonight in New York: TMN's Rosecrans Baldwin will read from his new novel and answer questions at McNally Jackson.
- Reggie Bush gives up his 2005 Heisman under allegations of wrongdoing at (and by) U.S.C.
- When the name "canola oil" replaced "low eurcic acid rapeseed oil" sales went up. Corn industry wants to change "high fructose corn syrup" to "corn sugar."
- The many ways political candidates and their denizens employ cybersquatting to erode opponents' brands.
- From Nixon to Bush to Britain's Nick Clegg, how televised debates forever changed politics.