Coming out of the coma that is Sunday, here's what I found interesting this week:
- Anderson Cooper reports on the endangered gorillas of the Congo and how efforts for their preservation are complicated by civil war, fights over natural resources, government corruption, and casual disregard for the environment (
60 Minutes)
- An undercover report exposes how Robert Mugabe and his cronies have been rigging the Zimbabwe polls (
The Guardian)
- A look at how an open marriage can work by Dallas' Jenny Block (
The Guardian)
- A Hebrew tablet which 'predates Jesus' speaks of a messiah that will rise from death (
IHT)
- Malaysia's political shitstorm gets more insidious: the private investigator who made, then retracted allegations the Deputy Prime Minister is involved in the murder of a Mongolian translator, has now disappeared (
IHT)
- I thought it looked familiar: Chris Hughes, a Facebook founder, left the company to help build up the Obama web campaign (
IHT)
- Food safety experts attempt to define standards for produce, a step that will lead to universal codes (
Reuters)
- The Bush administration accuses Venezuela's Hugo Chavez of providing financial aid to the terrorist group Hezbollah (
Washington Post)
- A vegetarian returns to meat, whilst another happily gets back on the meat-free wagon after being told to eat a burger by her doctor (
TOL)
-
The Constitution is not a suicide pact (
LA Times)