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MONDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 2009
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 Hadron Collider 
 Restarts Briefly 

After 14 months of repairs, proton beams circulate

Wife: Bin Laden Loves Gardening, Cars, Jihad

New memoir describes family life in the bin Laden household

 9-Year-Old to Obama: 
 'Why Do People 
 Hate You?' 

Replies prez: 'Some of it is just what's called politics.'

Mexico City
Puts 1,300 Cops
on a Diet

Mustn't give up tortas, but told to mix in some veggies now and then

 Serena's 
 Nude Shot 
 'Classy, 
 Not Trampy' 

Tennis hottie: Williams is naked on the cover of ESPN

 UN Names Norway 
 Best Place to Live 

Niger, Afghanistan round out list of 182 nations; China makes big gains

Osama Warns Europe to Leave Afghanistan

Al-Qaeda mastermind says Obama 'has no regard for human life'

 Paralyzed Rats Run in 
 Breakthrough Experiment 

Application for humans with spinal injuries not far off

Euro Farmers Protest Falling Prices With Huge Milk Dump

800,000 gallons in Belgian field after recession takes big toll

 Swine Flu Can Burrow 
 Deep Into Lungs: Docs 

H1N1 can infect cells where seasonal flu can't: study

Uruguay Legalizes
Gay Adoption

First Latin American nation to let same-sex couples adopt

 NATO Probes 'Disastrous' 
 Air Strike; 90 Dead 

Horrific injuries reported after fireball engulfs villagers

Researchers Discover Why Pot Makes You Forget

Scientists identify pathway for cognitive impairment under the effects of cannabis

Scientists Retract Paper Touting Sperm From Stem Cells

But say attribution, not science itself, at issue

Bill Gates Too Popular for Facebook

He signs off
over w-a-y too
many friend requests

 Carla Bruni to Sing 
 at Mandela's Birthday 

French first lady will perform at Mandela's 91st birthday celebration

 S. African 
 World Cup 
 Laborers 
 End Strike 

Workers building new stadiums negotiate 12% pay raise



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Off the Grid a Michael Wolff Newser Column

Books Are Bad for You

12
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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