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We love “Making Book 2008”: Lay down a little money on the Tournament of Books and you (plus the matching companies) are buying books for kids.
PowerPoint presentation answers all of the universe’s questions.
Fascinating confessions of a “language polisher” for China’s propaganda bureau.
Stallone’s unsmiling and serious-looking style makes him look like a lunatic. New Rambo unpopular with Myanmar chiefs.
Feeling ill, blue, or in need of a hot toddy? TMN’s picks for movies to curl up with.
Video: Rip Torn bashes in Norman Mailer’s head with a hammer. (Explainer.)
Test finds it’s tough pegging college students’ musical tastes to their personality characteristics.
Italian scientist discovers the G-spot, develops an ultrasound test to look for it; Italian scientists unveil robot that can make coffee.
Germany puts science, and a focus on international relations, at the top of its economic agenda.
Gallery of images from the International Aquatic Plant Layout Contest.
“There is no meal without meat.” Namibia is a vegetarian’s hell and an anemic’s paradise.
Story of infiltrating Seattle’s 9/11 conspiracy crowd.
Our new favorite book title: How to Avoid Huge Ships. See also: Obsolete skills for the 21st century.
Behind-the-scenes on “The McCain Article” in the Times; reporters are ready to field your flak.
“We didn’t raise all of this money to keep paying consultants who have pursued basically the wrong strategy for a year now.” Clinton supporters question their candidate’s spending.
From allegations the firm failed to protect employees sexually assaulted by co-workers to findings that it charged $45 per can of soda… How war contractors in Iraq became profiteers.
The world of art thievery, as told by a former dealer.
Celebrities, 700 patrons require Hepatitis A vaccines after exposure in a West Village bar.
Stray cockroach in Turkmenistan gets 30 people fired.
Bob Geldof, Bush travel Africa, draw crowds, goodwill.
Monochromatic New Yorkers: The girl who only wore turquoise switched to gray; we thought it was teal.
Video: On Soft Focus, Ian Svenonius interviews Primal Scream’s Bobby Gillespie.
British parents rank their own childhood bedtime stories far above Harry Potter.
Celebrity World War I draft cards, from Al Capone to Duncan Hines.