Headlines - The Morning News

Published from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. weekdays, our headlines contain links to the most pressing, interesting, or odd stories and sites we find around the web.

Got a site or article we should see?

Looking for a link you saw here last year?

» Advertise on TMN via the Deck

XML Syndicated Feed

Headlines for Thursday, September 13, 2007

Afternoon Edition

Sunni sheik who was leading advocate for U.S. cooperation is killed in bombing.

Japanese PM enters hospital day after resignation, seriously slowing down the replacement process.

Female boxing proves to be a path out of poverty for increasing numbers of Thai women.

Warner plans Senate run to replace Warner, nation already confused.

“There is no handbook for the spouse of a presidential candidate,” but if there were, this batch would be breaking all the rules.

“I worry about the care of the dying patient being dictated by the potential for organ donation.” Aggressive push for organs means some doctors are crossing the line.

U.K. rules that recently approved human-animal hybrid embryos can be used to derive stem cells.

BBC reports that older siblings cause younger ones to be shorter—unclear if it’s related to constant beatdowns.

Panel of space experts says Britain should get on board and into orbit.

Google founders convince NASA to lend them their runways.

This fall, even the kilogram is slimming down—at least by 50 micrograms.

In today’s feature, Clay Risen stares down skyscrapers and looks modernism in the eye.

Video: College Humor prank war ends with fake marriage proposal and real slapping.

The world’s weirdest units of measurement and classiest 404 error screens.

Morning Edition

Bush to sell his limited Iraq pullout as plan to unify America, prior to entering the election jaws.

Two soldiers who helped author last month’s big Times op-ed killed in Baghdad.

Directions provided by Subway manager show isosceles cheese triangles part of sales conspiracy.

Op: Those who say the U.S. isn’t preparing to attack Iran are buying into big-time denial.

Peggy Noonan ranks the Republican candidates with debating powers in mind.

Thinking of 9/11, MOCA chief curator picks artists to ponder.

Point: Attention must be paid to the current flowering of playwriting talent; Counterpoint: Forget black-box one acts, we need big plays in big spaces.

Instructions for those who write for radio on how not to sound like police.

Cynthia Ozick’s picks for which books a critic should keep on her shelf.

Pinker the optimist: Today we are probably living in the most peaceful moment of our species’ time on earth.

Reverse anthropology when five peaceful South Pacific Islanders arrive to study Britain, home of their god, Prince Philip.

Japanese video game decimating the population of real-life species of Turkish beetle.

Reducing our time on earth, American toxic sites get profiled with new data each day.

Americans who want to improve the environment should not have that baby, or at least not a second one.

Monocle’s index of that which improves your life, like Tokyo jogging routes, or parking attendants in Seoul.

Someone’s life improved by exhaustively cataloging attractive record sleeves.

In this week’s Mp3 Digest, Andrew Womack chronicles everything attractive about T-Pain.

TODAY’S FEATURE

Plan B

Determining that precise instant when life starts is a big subject in American politics, but it’s rarely discussed with much nuance. SARAH KESSLER investigates a fateful moment when she made a choice.

DIGEST

Tippecanoe and Tyler, Too!

This They Might Be Giants video features their take on a campaign song so adored that its popularity has significantly outlasted the presidencies it helped put in office.

COOL HAND/PLANT

Name That Congress

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

Prize Lovers Apply Here

More addictive than heroin, more challenging than Sudoku: the TMN Map Quiz, delivered hot, fresh, and diabolical to your inbox every Friday.

» SIGN UP

Tuesday, October 14, 2008