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MONDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 2009
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Pirates Holding 12-Year-Old Girl for Ransom

Released hostage says he saw child, other women aboard vessel

 Brits in Iraq: 
 US Military 
 Bosses Were 
 'Like Martians' 

Leaked documents show US, UK commanders clashing bitterly

Coma Man Was Conscious
for 23 Years

'I was witness to my own suffering,' says Belgian

family feud

 Windsors Schemed 
 to Deny Elizabeth Throne 

Duke plotted to step in as his brother's health failed

kercher murder trial


 Knox Acted Out of 
 'Hatred': Prosecutor 

Closing argument speaks of 'crescendo of violence'

 This Bud's for You: 
 Pot Cafe Makes 
 the Grade 

Marijuana mist, croissants on tap in 1st legal establishment

 40% Bare Is 
 How Women 
 Best Attract Men 

But too much flesh smacks of infidelity

 Palin Memoir: 
 I Inspired 
 Obama's 'Change' 

Palin suggests Dem's '08 adviser lifted Alaska strategy

Jackson Sex Accuser's Dad Commits Suicide

Jordy Chandler's father found dead in NJ home

HE LOVES THE HIP-HOP

 Vladimir Putin, Rap Advocate? 

Russian prime minister just plain awkward at music awards show

Wah!

 Even Babies Are Airbrushed 

Babies subject to the tyranny of Photoshop, too

 Plastics 'Feminizing' Baby Boys 

In utero exposure linked to different behaviors

Due Soon: Three-Parent Babies? 

Scientists create one embryo from eggs of two women

SO LONG, ANTARCTICA

 Giant Iceberg 
 Floats Toward NZ 

Chunk of Antarctica spotted unusually far north

PAR 34C

 A Bra That's a Putting Mat 

A perfect gift for the naked golf enthusiast

Surfer Dude's Theory of Everything May School Science

Yurt-dweller rivets
the establishment

 ET, Phone Rome: 
 Vatican Holds 
 Alien Conference 

Astrobiology experts ponder big picture

 Makeout Movie 
 Heats Up City of Light 

Kisses from Paris targets young lovers

 Bald Bears Stump 
 German Zookeepers 

Mystery condition leaves bears hairless as winter sets in

 Salmon Protections 
 Strike Calif.'s New '49ers 

Gold prospectors banned from using 21st-century dredgers

 'Lost' Beatles 
 Song Finally 
 Finished 

Forgotten George Harrison lyrics turned into tune

 Giant Jellyfish Sink Trawler 

Net filled with 400-pound creatures capsizes boat

 Germy 
 Kissing 
 Is the 
 Point  

Swapping spit boosts immunity, say scientists

pop culture


 100 Defining 
 Moments 
 of the '00s 

The iPod, Guitar Hero, Twitter—and some serious moments, too



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Off the Grid a Michael Wolff Newser Column

Books Are Bad for You

14
Nov 23, 09 | 8:41 AM BY Michael Wolff

A few years ago, writing about the book business and how dumbed down and craven books had become—and pathetic, designed only to sell and then not selling—I wrote the line “books suck,” subjecting me to much middlebrow opprobrium. I’d like to revise that line: Books are evil. They’re pernicious. They represent themselves as being one thing, when they’re insidiously the opposite. Sarah Palin, for instance, did not write her... More »

The Health-Care Wars Have Just Begun

11
Nov 20, 09 | 8:32 AM BY Michael Wolff

My 84-year-old mother was full of venomous indignation at dinner last night over the great mammogram take-back. Bureaucrats, in her view,... More »

Sarah Palin Deserves Some More Attention

17
Nov 19, 09 | 10:14 AM BY Michael Wolff

This is a phenomenon that just keeps giving. Its very lack of explanation, and ensuing incredulity and apoplexy, propel it. There... More »

And We Thought We Hated Mammograms

8
Nov 18, 09 | 2:40 PM BY Caroline Miller

No one likes to get a mammogram. Still, it’s hard to find a woman anywhere who was pleased to hear the new ruling that... More »

China and the Obese: The President Meets His Greatest Problems

12
Nov 18, 09 | 8:43 AM BY Michael Wolff

For all sorts of obvious reasons, it seems like a greatly unacceptable and possibly discriminatory thing to say that the obese are a lot... More »

Rupert Murdoch’s Guy Gets It

7
Nov 17, 09 | 6:50 AM BY Michael Wolff

If Arthur Miller were at it again, he’d call the play Death of a PR Guy. Gary Ginsberg, Murdoch’s PR guy who got... More »

Obama's Secret Weapon: The Hug

4
Nov 16, 09 | 12:30 PM BY Lewis Grossberger

President Obama needs to get the hell out of China as fast as he can, rush back to America and start hugging Republicans. This will... More »

The President Wants You to Know He’s Too Dopey to Use Twitter

19
Nov 16, 09 | 8:01 AM BY Michael Wolff

“First of all, let me say that I have never used Twitter. I notice that young people—you know, they’re very busy with... More »

Does Warren Buffett Know What He’s Talking About?

10
Nov 13, 09 | 6:55 AM BY Michael Wolff

Nobody I know who is smart and rich (albeit much less rich than they used to be) thinks the economy is patched up and ready to roll—except,... More »

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