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Monday, October 13, 2008

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Today’s Feature: “How to Embalm a Body” by Nicole Pasulka
Latest in Digest: Don’t Call It a Bailout
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Conversation Piece

5:20 to Jaipur

What does it say about you if one of the most notable themes of your travel tales is the way you kept breaking out into hysterical laughter? NICOLE PASULKA and PASHA MALLA on expectations and prejudices. (Conversation Piece | March 25, 2008)

Once More, With Feeling

Some call Wes Anderson’s new movie, The Darjeeling Limited, mounting evidence of the filmmaker’s racism—others, of his inability to make a decent film. MIKE BAKER and PASHA MALLA address both camps, and make room for improvement. (Conversation Piece | October 24, 2007)


TODAY’S FEATURE

How to Embalm a Body

Those who can’t do, learn. As part of our series in which the clueless apprentice with the experts, NICOLE PASULKA visits a funeral home in New Jersey to learn, hands-on, how to prepare someone for an eternal rest.

COOL HAND/PLANT

Name That Congress

Non-Expert Andrew Womack reveals President Bush’s nicknames for each member of the Democratic House and Senate.

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DIGEST

Don’t Call It a Bailout

Rescue packages are exciting, bailouts are greedy, but foreclosures are more ambiguous. Those profiting from repossessions paint an unhappy picture—and the grass.