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  • August 2008

    • Superbugs May Push Us Into World Without Antibiotics

      New Yorker  |  Aug 7, 08 1:11 PM CDT

      Superbugs May Push Us Into World Without Antibiotics

      (Newser) - Antibiotic-resistant microbes don’t just open us up to dangerous illnesses—they also cost the American economy well over $5 billion annually, the New Yorker reports. And one expert says around 70% of the antibiotics produced in the US wind up in agriculture: "We've created a petri dish in our factory farms for the evolution of dangerous pathogens." More »

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      antibiotics  • New Yorker magazine  • drug-resistant bacteria

  • July 2008

    • VF Spoof Bumps New Yorker

      Boston Globe  |  Jul 23, 08 9:15 AM CDT

      VF Spoof Bumps New Yorker

      (Newser) - Vanity Fair has taken a jab at the New Yorker , posting a spoof of the magazine’s controversial Barack Obama cover on its website. VF ’s "cover" shows a doddering John McCain gripping a walker and fist-bumping his wife, Cindy, who cradles a pile of prescription drugs. In the background, the Constitution burns in the fireplace under a portrait of President Bush. More »

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      Barack Obama  • Michelle Obama  • Vanity Fair  • satire  • New Yorker magazine

    • Obama Cover Misses Point of Satire

      New York Times  |  Jul 20, 08 6:28 PM CDT

      Obama Cover Misses Point of Satire

      (Newser) - The now-infamous New Yorker cover depicting Barack and Michelle Obama as Muslim extremists rankled readers because it is not satire, Lee Siegel argues in the New York Times . Satire tackles "social rottenness once it has become a visible and established part of life," writes Siegel. But the New Yorker gave mainstream credence to a notion of the lunatic fringe. More »

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      Barack Obama  • Michelle Obama  • satire  • New Yorker magazine

    • Does al-Qaeda Do the Fist-Bump?

      Slate  |  Jul 16, 08 12:36 PM CDT

      Does al-Qaeda Do the Fist-Bump?

      (Newser) - Terrorists aren’t big on fist-jabbing or bumping—they’re all about kissing and hugging, writes Juliet Lapidos for Slate in the aftermath of the New Yorker's depiction of knuckle-knocking Obamas, a move referred to by Fox News as a “terrorist fist-jab.” Al-Qaeda members, she writes, are likely to enlist a common Middle Eastern welcome of three cheek-to-cheek embraces.   More »

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      Barack Obama  • al-Qaeda  • Osama bin Laden  • FARC  • Fox News  • New Yorker magazine  • IRA

    • How Chicago Made Obama a Politician

      New Yorker  |  Jul 15, 08 3:00 PM CDT

      How Chicago Made Obama a Politician

      (Newser) - Behind the New Yorker ’s fist-bumping Barack Obama cover, Ryan Lizza chronicles the Democrat’s political education in Chicago, where competing imperatives from the city’s fundraising elite, black urban base, and Daley-down political hierarchy taught him how to massage the system—and learn the kind of political evasion that opponents are beginning to detect.  More »

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      Barack Obama  • Chicago  • Obama 2008  • New Yorker magazine

    • Pundits Cringe at 'Irony Deficiency' in Cartoon Flap

      Salon  |  Jul 15, 08 1:28 PM CDT

      Pundits Cringe at 'Irony Deficiency' in Cartoon Flap

      (Newser) - Many writers are scratching their heads at the incensed reactions provoked by the New Yorker ’s Obamas-as-terrorists cover. Here’s some rebuttal: Liberals “have come to regard all images or texts that contain negative stereotypes as too politically dangerous to run,” Gary Kamiya writes in Salon. “Not a single work of satire could ever pass this paranoid test” in which merely acknowledging racism “is to be racist.” More »

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      Barack Obama  • racism  • satire  • cartoon  • New Yorker magazine

    • Obama Camp Rips New Yorker Caricature

      Politico  |  Jul 14, 08 3:15 AM CDT

      Obama Camp Rips New Yorker Caricature

      (Newser) - Barack Obama's campaign has ripped an "offensive" New Yorker cover illustration depicting the candidate in a turban, fist-bumping his afro-sporting, AK-47-toting wife, Politico reports. The cover, intended by the magazine to lampoon the cartoonish image of Obama propagated by some of his right-wing critics, has sparked a flurry of denunciations. More »

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      Barack Obama  • satire  • New Yorker magazine  • turbans

  • June 2008

    • How to Win the Caption Contest

      Slate  |  Jun 5, 08 6:35 PM CDT

      How to Win the Caption Contest

      (Newser) - Want to win the New Yorker 's cartoon caption contest? The first rule: Don't be too funny. So says recent winner Patrick House, who lays out his can't-miss strategy in Slate. Keep in mind that reading the New Yorker is an introspective pursuit, one of "lonesome withdrawal." Which means that someone on the train probably doesn't want to guffaw out loud. Aim instead for a "a mild chuckle." More »

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      humor  • magazine  • New Yorker magazine  • jokes

  • April 2008

    • Portishead Better with Age

      New Yorker  |  Apr 16, 08 2:53 PM CDT

      Portishead Better with Age

      (Newser) - If Portishead’s new album comes off as cheesy, it’s only because it’s easily digestible, Sasha Frere-Jones writes in the New Yorker . While the album, Third , is “delightfully abrasive,” the Brits have “accepted that being soothing, despite their perverse streak, is part of what they do,” crafting tracks that will appeal to “young Radiohead fans” and “those who like some heft in their gloom.” More »

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      music  • rock music  • album release  • New Yorker magazine

  • December 2007

    • 'Top Model' Draws Focus to Asperger's

      New York Times  |  Dec 4, 07 3:20 PM CST

      'Top Model' Draws Focus to Asperger's

      (Newser) - Although she has been eliminated from "America's Top Model," contestant Heather Kuzmich, a consistent viewer favorite, continues to bring attention to Asperger's syndrome. Kuzmich, who has the neurological disorder, says she hopes to keep modeling and become a spokesperson for others with the condition, the New York Times reports. More »

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      reality TV  • autism  • New Yorker magazine  • ADHD  • America's Next Top Model  • Asperger's Syndrome

  • October 2007

    • Is National Discourse Too Darn Crass?

      Christian Science Monitor  |  Oct 21, 07 6:59 PM CDT

      Is National Discourse Too Darn Crass?

      (Newser) - Shock jock Don Imus is coming back, but humbled; Ann Coulter got press for anti-Semitism, but lost support; could this be a backlash against crass punditry? Hardly, say the experts, but some see rays of hope. "We're caught right now between extreme political correctness on one end and crude, hateful incivility on the other," says a journalism teacher. "We need moderation—thoughtful behavior and expression." More »

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      Fox News  • Don Imus  • debate  • New Yorker magazine  • Ann Coulter

  • April 2007

    • Manny Being Manny

      New Yorker  |  Apr 19, 07 12:44 PM CDT

      Manny Being Manny

      (Newser) - The New Yorker 's Ben McGrath finagled an astounding nine minutes with Manny Ramirez, the notoriously fractious and endlessly fascinating Red Sox slugger. In the interview the reclusive Ramirez embodies all the myths about him: He's deeply personal, funny, petulant, and cryptic—besides being, arguably, "the greatest hitter of his generation." More »

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      Boston Red Sox  • Manny Ramirez  • David Ortiz  • New Yorker magazine  • Fenway Park

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