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• 02 Nov 2009 17:30

  

  The Electronic Piano That's Better Than the Real Thing

  1. Obama Congratulates Karzai, Demands Reform
  2. Hoffman Beating Owens in Heated Race, Polls Show
  3. Liberal Economists Press for Larger Stimulus
  4. Bidders Pay $1.34 Million for Lehman's Orphaned Art

  

  

  

  

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  Mad Men: Aqua Net Is Going To Need a New Campaign
  Oh My God! Law & Order Killed Off the American Apparel Guy.
  Can Cops Detect a Suspect's Fake Emotions When Investigating a Crime?
  Louisa May Alcott's Private Misery
  Hitchens: How the U.N. Ruined Any Chance of a Fair Afghan Election
  Schwarzenegger Writes a Coded Message in Obama's Facebook Feed
  Congress' Silly New Plan To Make Fat Americans Lose Weight

  Monday, Nov. 2, 2009

  • Angela Merkel's Quiet RevolutionShe speaks very softly and doesn't seem to carry a stick.Anne Applebaumforeigners | Monday, 8:05 PM ET
  • Pants Still on FireCalling the president a liar has been good for Joe Wilson's career. But is it good for the GOP? | Monday, 6:53 PM ET
  • Week 12: How Betty Draper broke my heart. | Monday, 6:12 PM ET
  • Why Do So Many Baseball Players Chew Tobacco?Because it's dusty out there. | Monday, 5:58 PM ET
  • The Slatest: Evening EditionWest rushes to support Karzai; Krugman and Reich push for larger stimulus; thousands of names added daily to FBI terror list. | Monday, 5:21 PM ET
  • Hang Up and Listen, the A-Rod's Redemption EditionStefan Fatsis, Josh Levin, and Mike Pesca | Monday, 4:52 PM ET
  • In Defense of JaywalkingBanning the practice won't make pedestrians safer.Tom Vanderbilttransport | Monday, 4:01 PM ET
  • The Closeted GroomPrudie dispenses advice about a fiancé who has a bisexual past—and counsels other advice seekers. | Monday, 3:10 PM ET
  • Dear Prudence: Engaged and Feeling Trapped | Monday, 2:49 PM ET
  • Blowing the ShotWhat we can learn from the shortage of H1N1 vaccine.Marc Siegelmedical examiner | Monday, 2:35 PM ET
  • Better Off on Big Farms For workers in agriculture, size matters.Tracie McMillangreen room | Monday, 12:10 PM ET
  • First, Silence the Whistle-BlowerThe United Nations' shameful complicity in this year's corrupt Afghan elections. | Monday, 12:10 PM ET
  • The Slate EndorsementsBooks, music, movies, and other stuff Slate writers liked this month.slate fare | Monday, 10:35 AM ET
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  • Awkward SuggestionsLet's have fun with the Google search box.Michael Aggerlifehacking | Monday, 9:36 AM ET
  • How Ayn Rand Became an American IconThe perverse allure of a damaged woman.Johann Hari | Monday, 7:01 AM ET
  • Did CIT Kill Christmas?Bernhard Warner and Matthew Yeomans | Monday, 6:56 AM ET

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  • posted by Dana Stevens on November 2, 2009The Old Man and the Paris Opera Ballet Frederick Wiseman 's La Danse , a 158-minute documentary about the Paris Opera Ballet, opens this week for a two-week run at New York’s Film Forum , followed by a national rollout through December. If you know the director’s work already, that sentence stands on its own as an argument for seeing
  • posted by Mickey Kaus on November 2, 2009NSFT--Not Safe For Twitter! kf --Always the Positive Spin: The UAW's Ford workers have rejected contract concessions that would have almost-but-not-quite lowered Ford's labor costs to match GM and Chrysler's new costs, which are said to almost-but-not-quite match Toyota and Honda's. But is that really so bad? It
  • posted by Willa Paskin on November 2, 2009A Defense of "Cougar Town"Emily Nussbaum makes the case against Cougar Town in this week’s New York : Courtney Cox’s Jules Cobb is no Samantha Jones. “The Samantha Jones iconography has gone retro, regressing to a Cathy cartoon in heels,” Nussbaum writes. “Jules Cobb, the divorced ninny played by Cox, might date
  • posted by William Saletan on November 2, 2009Genes, Murder, and Bad DrivingCan crimes and crashes be blamed on bad genes?
  • posted by Gretchen Rubin on November 2, 2009A Secret to Happiness That I Overlooked -- Until Now.People are adaptable. We quickly adjust to a new life circumstance—for better or worse—and consider it normal. Although this helps us when our situation worsens, it means that when circumstances improve, we soon become hardened to new comforts or privileges. Scoring air-conditioning, a bigger house, or a fancy title gives us only a brief boost in happiness before we start to take it for granted. As Aldous Huxley wrote, “Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities.” That’s the hedonic treadmill.

  Underpasses and overpasses.

  Cartoonists' take on Pakistan.

  Tour de farce.

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  • : Aqua Net Is Going To Need a New Campaign
  • Oh My God! Law & Order Killed Off the American Apparel Guy.
  • Hitchens: How the U.N. Ruined Any Chance of a Fair Afghan Election

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