Headlines from March 8, 2011
- U.K. and France drafting "contingency" resolution to impose no-fly zone over Libya.
- Tunisia dissolves state security apparatus "to overcome the deficiencies noted under the former regime."
- Coverage of coverage of anti-Semitism having a moment in the sun.
- Profile of Dan Savage, America's most influential advice columnist and ethicist.
- Tournament of Books 2011 begins today.
- During March, while supplies last, get your ToB notebook free with any Field Notes purchase (coupon code: Rooster).
- Our favorite Rooster-inspired event: School Library Journal's Battle of the Books (see also: Rooster invades bookstore).
- Dan Rather is nailing stories, covering anything he likes, only no one's watching--and if they were, he wouldn't know about it.
- Video: Auto-tune the News nearly overwhelmed by Sheen source material.
- Gallup finds most theoretically happy person; Times finds him in person; Alvin Wong finds 15 minutes of fame.
- Oral history of The Strokes.
- Pic: Way to hold onto your beer.
- Story behind and video for very fun interpretative dance brought to Girl Talk.
- Video: Kubrick's The Shining screened forwards and backwards simultaneously, superimposed.
- How Milton and Dickens inspired The Godfather II--the invention of zooming in narrative.
- Canadian priest gets Ph.D. in snowboarding, looking into the experience of "soul-riding."
- Related video: Trailer for The Art of Flight.
- Obama approves resuming Guantanamo trials, still seeks other venues and means to try terrorists.
- Reports of African mercenaries fighting for Gadhafi stoke racial violence against African migrant workers in Libya.
- America's incredible military capacity provides a powerful temptation to grasp the sword.
- Gates predicts minor troop pullout this summer, but says majority of the troops will stay on in Afghanistan.
- Secretary Locke to take over for ambassador to China, who would like to take over as president.
- China tells Dalai Lama, No, no, no, you must reincarnate.
- Gunless 20-year-old police chief disappears and is fired in Mexican border town; she might be in the U.S.
- Mexican teenagers with damaged urethras prove tissue regeneration a go.
- David Rees assigned to review America's Next Great Restaurant--providing every reason to read him and no reason to watch the show.
- Accounting for Grace Coddington as the creative soul behind modern Vogue's preeminence.
- Origins of 12 supermarket chains.
- A shot is realized only if its expected value exceeds the continuation value of a possession. More economics on N.B.A. shooting.
- Studies on solitude vs. loneliness say "spending time alone, if done right, can be good for us."
- Data on day-to-day life of a full-time cartoonist.
- Lady Gaga owns all rights to all pictures of her as soon as they are taken, says contract with photographers.
- Christchurch, New Zealand, residents share pictures of new toilets.
