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NYTimes Magazine: 15 February 2009
February 16th, 2009 • Magazine, NYTimes
- The Ethicist: For the Birds
Carrying charges.
- On Language: Rifacimento
In re: repurpose, rebrand, remix, remash.
- Consumed: A Successful Failure
How an image went from e-card to Twitter icon.
- The Medium: Being There
The subtle art of the Facebook update.
- Questions for Bill Ayers: Radical Cheer
The former Weatherman talks about why he didn’t speak out during Barack Obama’s campaign, what he’d like to do with Sarah Palin and why he always looks on the bright side.
- The Way We Live Now: In Defense of Secrecy
Even after the Bush years, there’s still a place for government behind closed doors.
- Letters: 2 Kids + 0 Husbands = Family
- Letters: The Big Fix
- Lives: Saying Yes to Ryan
Deciding to make a child your own.
- Recipe Redux: 1898: Tortoni
Figuring out the route a recipe took to get from the Alps two centuries ago to a dinner table in Vermont.
- Style: The Last Collection
When Yves Saint Laurent died last June, he left behind a fashion legacy beyond measure — and a lifetime’s accumulation of important furniture and art.
- Wild Thing
Neko Case’s songs are full of claws, wolves, tornadoes, birds of prey and the occasional gust of wind. But her voice is the real force of nature.
- The Saharan Conundrum
Terrorism experts feared that North Africa would be the next Afghanistan: a haven, and a launching pad, for Al Qaeda. Why hasn’t it turned out that way?
- The No-Stats All-Star
The N.B.A. (learning from baseball) is discovering the power of new statistics and weird analytics. By these measures, the unsung and undervalued Shane Battier is a true all-star.
BBC Magazine News: 14 February 2009
February 16th, 2009 • BBC News, Magazine
- 10 things: Salt, snakes and extra toes
- 7 days 7 questions: Google’s search engine was crippled by what?
- Feeling queasy? Why E.coli does much more than food poisoning
- Saw point: A child sawing through a plank - stop him or not?
- Snowball etiquette: Three kids ambush you - how do you react?
- The Monitor: Delivered to the PM’s door
- Racist friend: What if you knew someone who said offensive things?
- Mad for it: What is it about early 60s style that’s so cool?
- The Monitor: Will the neigh-bours be annoyed?
- Ad Breakdown: What’s the big idea behind Cadbury’s eyebrows ad?
- Got the hump: How the Jumbo Jet change the way we travel
- The Monitor: Meet Later Monitor, PM’s alter ego
- Should a day be set aside for apologies?
- Are you up on your facts about water?
- Steed of the South: It’s a giant gee-gee - but what does it mean?
- The Monitor: How to say Guus Hiddink - with a -kh as in ‘loch’
- Caption competition: Two tigers playing in the snow
- Drinking as a rite of passage and a test of loyalty
- Right name, wrong place: Off to Sydney… in Nova Scotia?
- How do you measure how grim a recession is?
- Right name…
…wrong place. Yes, it’s Sydney - Nova Scotia! - Any jobs at all?
How to measure the grimness of this recession - Lonely hearts
When agitators get lonely, they go to anarcho speed-dating - Keeping up with criminals
Another whiskey? Laurie Taylor on when being able to hold one’s drink is a rite of passage and test of loyalty. - 7 days quiz
Which name of the moment is shared by one of the octuplets and Chris Evans’ new baby? - What happened to the book burners?
Twenty years ago Muslims outraged liberals by publicly burning Salman Rushdie’s book. Do they regret it now? - Cop for a day
To help fund expensive crime-fighting tools, New York’s finest allow paying members of the public to take command of a precinct for a day, says Harold Evans in his weekly column.
NYTimes Magazine: 14 February 2009
February 15th, 2009 • Magazine, NYTimes
- The Ethicist: For the Birds
Carrying charges.
- On Language: Rifacimento
In re: repurpose, rebrand, remix, remash.
- Consumed: A Successful Failure
How an image went from e-card to Twitter icon.
- The Medium: Being There
The subtle art of the Facebook update.
- Questions for Bill Ayers: Radical Cheer
The former Weatherman talks about why he didn’t speak out during Barack Obama’s campaign, what he’d like to do with Sarah Palin and why he always looks on the bright side.
- The Way We Live Now: In Defense of Secrecy
Even after the Bush years, there’s still a place for government behind closed doors.
- Letters: 2 Kids + 0 Husbands = Family
- Letters: The Big Fix
- Lives: Saying Yes to Ryan
Deciding to make a child your own.
- Recipe Redux: 1898: Tortoni
Figuring out the route a recipe took to get from the Alps two centuries ago to a dinner table in Vermont.
- Style: The Last Collection
When Yves Saint Laurent died last June, he left behind a fashion legacy beyond measure — and a lifetime’s accumulation of important furniture and art.
- Wild Thing
Neko Case’s songs are full of claws, wolves, tornadoes, birds of prey and the occasional gust of wind. But her voice is the real force of nature.
- The Saharan Conundrum
Terrorism experts feared that North Africa would be the next Afghanistan: a haven, and a launching pad, for Al Qaeda. Why hasn’t it turned out that way?
- The No-Stats All-Star
The N.B.A. (learning from baseball) is discovering the power of new statistics and weird analytics. By these measures, the unsung and undervalued Shane Battier is a true all-star.
