The Morning News

Sunday, November 8, 2009

Currently: Padgett Powell's latest makes struggling with questions look easy. http://tmne.ws/14295
1 day ago
» Tweet this
» Post to Facebook

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 Tuesday, June 17, 2008

Afternoon Edition

Deadliest attack in Baghdad in more than three months kills 51 in market blast.

Israel and Hamas agree on truce to begin Thursday.

Three years and three Israeli au pairs later, with an average stay of 3.3 months, my wife and I licked our collective wounds.

Op: McCain’s dismissal of the Supreme Court’s Guantanamo ruling skates on periously thin ice.

How Obama’s race in the race for the White House is viewed by the Chinese government.

The number of Cubans trying to smuggle their way into America is the highest it has been for more than a decade.

Video: In case you missed it, a mash-up of the White House’s reaction to McClellan’s book.

British special forces enlisted by Bush to help find Bin Laden prior to White House change.

Was the evil empire defeated by Reagan’s communist jokes?

Amy Winehouse receives $2 million to play less than an hour in Moscow.

Gallery of “Silicon Forest,” where Russian scientists now devote their skills to tech support for Western firms.

“Your breasts should be back to normal soon.” Players threaten to quit Age of Conan online game after glitch gives avatars “saggy breasts.”

Audio: A comic book about AIDS-infected superheroes.

Print lives on: MagCloud goes beta for the indie publisher in you (more info here).

Morning Edition

The Republicans counter that calling the senator “McBush” is political spin and that Mr. McCain is his own man.

Op: Lose the Nicorette. Light up instead. How Obama can appeal to blue-collar voters.

How to nap; how to become a morning person.

Why we can’t track the tainted tomatoes: We can’t remember where we got them.

“It’s almost your worst-case scenario for affecting the entire food chain.” Mussels move west, threaten many species.

Soaring gas prices force shameless commuters to ride Segways.

If the basis of the World Wide Web is the hyperlink, then the web was invented in 1934.

This year’s Field-Tested Books—a guide to books read in other places—includes a book you can field test.

For Iraqis, having a big family is a great achievement—a basic right that we shouldn’t deprive man or dog. Iraqi veterinarians prefer matchmaking to neutering.

In California, gay couples stress low-key, spin-proof weddings.

Gay men, women have similarly shaped brains—as do lesbians and straight men.

Astronomers locate “super-Earths”—larger than our planet, but orbiting around stars.

Romanian villagers re-elect their deceased mayor.

TODAY’S FEATURE

Test Post

Rather than shopping or a pottery workshop, blogging shows promise as a fun, “couple-y” activity. THE GOLEM writes the entry that took a thousand years.

TMN TALKS

Abhay Khosla

Abhay Khosla is a regular contributor to The Savage Critics, a review of comic books. He’s made a foray into writing comics, and his absurdist,...

OUR MAN IN BOSTON

Question, Questions, Questions?

Padgett Powell's bebop solo of a book is 164 pages of interrogatory--that's right, questions.

INFINITE SUMMER

Dracula

Sponsored by TMN, the online book club reads the vampire novel that sired them all.
» READ ALONG