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Shell Of A Town
by David Morton, Washington City Paper
Worst college town ever.

Hong Kong Still On Song
by Ken Hom, Financial Times
The rivalry between Shanghai and Hong Kong in matters financial and economic in the past few years has become quite intense. However, when it comes to food, I wanted to discover if Hong Kong still reigned supreme.

Teens' T-Shirts Make Educators Squirm
by Ian Shapira, Washington Post
Sexually suggestive T-shirts often fall into a gray area that requires officials to evaluate one shirt at a time.

The Race To Satisfy Caviar Craving
by Jane Black, New York Times
Caviar from farmed sturgeon used to be a tough sell. Now it's tough to fill the orders.

TV Dinners
by Bill Buford, New Yorker
The rise of food television.

More Than A Feeling
by Peter Whittle, The Times
However laudable, why is art for the blind always just a tactile experience?

Phony Identification
by Tom Keane, Boston Globe
Caller ID is dying.

Sex On The Brain
by Mark Liberman, Boston Globe
It's easy to see how funky numbers about an exotic language can turn into an urban legend. But it might surprise you to find apparently authoritative sources doing the same thing with basic facts about your own language use.

Give Me Five More Minutes
by Christy Miller, Salon
I had always imagined with horrow what it would be like to get the news that my son was killed in Iraq. Then it happened.

Dumbing Up
by Rachel Donadio, New York Times
Few thirsts run deeper these days than the one for self-improvement, and few recent books have slaked it better than the ubiquitous bumble-bee-colored titles in the "For Dummies" series.

In Japan, A Time Capsule Of Modern Design
by Tom Downey, New York Times
Perhaps nowhere in Japan was the fascination with Western architecture more pronounced than in Fukuoka, a provincial capital in remote Kyushu province.

A Fundamental Way Newspaper Sites Need To Change
by Adrian Holovaty
Newspaper need to stop the story-centric worldview.

Sex, Skin, Fireworks, Licked Fingers - It's A Quarter Pounder Ad In China
by Gordon Fairclough and Janet Adamy, Wall Street Journal
Beef is luxurious. Beef is healthy. And, yes, beef is sexy.

Life Is Better; It Isn't Better. Which Is It?
by David Leonhardt, New York Times
So here are the facts. Americans are far better off than they were a generation ago, but the last few years haven't been very good. It's time for both parties to move on to the harder question.

Tales Of The City: Dog On The Track
by Joe Sexton, New York Times
The Q train announcement was, actually, decipherable. That's not to say it was easy to comprehend. "This train is being delayed. There is a dog on the tracks."

Violence Changes Fortunes Of Storied Baghdad Street
by Sudarsan Raghavan, Washington Post
In a city known across the Arab world for its love affair with books, such emotions reflect the decline of a vibrant community.

Far Across The DMZ
by Mary Chi-Whi Kim, New York Times
Last December, after 55 years, members of our South Korean family reunited with northern relatives for two hours via satellite. It was one of hundreds of such virtual reunions that the Red Cross has organized for families who have been separated since the 1953 armistice split the country in half.

For Central Park Carriage Horse, Death Arrives Inelegantly
by Corey Kilgannon, New York Times
"For a million tourists, she was what they remember of Manhattan. Her picture is all over the world. And look at her now."

Apple Flavor The Language, Too
by Grant Barnett, Washington Post
An apple is more than the seed of man's original sin. In American English, it's also a baseball, a basketball and a badly rolled bowling ball; a regular person, a fool and a sucker.

The Small Picture
by Bret McCabe, Baltimore City Paper
Two local filmmakers backed into an audience and Hollywood Buzz via podcasting — and now they may not need Hollywood anymore.

Burned Out
by Cienna Madrid, The Stranger
Five twentysomething dudes with a rented RV invited The Stranger to send a writer to Burning Man with them. We Sent Our Worst Enemy™.

I Queue
by Sam Anderson, Slate
Judging your friends by their Netflix lists.

Welcome Aboard
by The Economist
In-flight announcements are nto entirely truthful. What might an honest one sound like?

Mao Is Their Canvas
by Dhing-Ching Ni, Los Angeles Times
Every year for 57 years, a huge portrait of the leader is freshened up in Tiananmen Square. For the artists, it's been a lifetime of obscurity.

The Quiet American
by Gaby Wood, The Guardian
It's a magazine that runs 10,000-word articles on African states and the pension system, has almost no pictures and is published in black and white. So how does the New Yorker sell more than a million copies a week?

Even Dating Is Perilous In Polarized Baghdad
by Amit R. Paley, Washington Post
Rising tension between Snnis, Shiites nealry puts end to mixed relationships.

What To Expect When You're Expecting Dinner
by Nora Ephron, New York Times
I don't actually say these words.

Tea's Got A Brand New Bag
by Florence Fabricant, New York Times
The tea bag, a clever enough idea at first, went terribly awry somewhere along the way, at least in the view of people who love to savor their tea. Now it is in the process of large-scale reinvention, and some of those who currently shun it with almost ostentatious disdain are very likely to be won over.

In Elite Chess World, A Grandmaster's Flash
by Scott Wilson, Washington Post
A pawn, then another. A knight, then another.

Reborn
by Steve Boggan, The Guardian
We have always been told there is no recovery from persistent vegetative state — doctors can only make a sufferer's last days as painless as possible. But is that really the truth? Across three continents, severely brain-damaged patients are awake and talking after taking... a sleeping pill. And no one is more baffled than the GP who made the breakthrough.

The Subtle Changes Since 9/11
by Stephanie McCrummen, Washington Post
For Va. neighbors, lingering fears and a new worldview underlie everyday life.

In China, Delicately Testing The Taboo On Talking About Sex
by Maureen Fan, Washington Post
Popularity of radio advice proram highlights youths' hunger for guidance.

You Want To Take A What?
by Kimi Yoshino, Los Angeles Times
If you said 'bath,' you'd be in the minority at some upscale hotels, where tubs are giving way to luxury showers. Blame the ick factor.

Fewer Bags Overhead! But More Staring At The Carousel
by Jane Engle, Los Angeles Times
In the month since a foiled jet-bombing plot in Britain set off another round of rule changes, Americans once again have proved to be hte ultimate Flexible Flyers.

At $9.95 A Page, You Expected Poetry?
by Charles McGrath, New York Times
A grade-conscious student these days seems to need a custom job, and to judge from the number of services on the internet, there must be virtual mills somewhere employing armies of diligent scholars who grind away so that credit-card-equipped undergrads can enjoy more carefree time together.

Mocking Bush Is My Patriotic Duty
by Bill Maher, Salon
Let our allies and our enemies alike know that there's a whole swath of Americans desperate to distance themselves from Bush's foreign policies. And that just Republicans running for reelection.

Front Page For Sale
by Jack Shafer, Slate
So hidebound and dimwitted are U.S. newspapers that it's predictable that their idea of breaking all the rules is something U.S. newspapers were doing a century ago.

The 30-Year-Old Virgins
by Yael Kohen, Salon
It was once a badge of honor. But to the surprising number of adult women today who have not had sex, virginity is nothing but a curse.

The New Naysayers
by Jerry Adler, Newsweek
In the midst of religious revival, three scholars argue that atheism is smarter.

Corcodile Hunter, Audience Charmer
by Paul Farhi, Washington Post
Steve Irwin spent much of his life not just tempting fate but petting it, riding its back and swinging it by the tail. I the end, fate snapped back.

Building A Hate For Learning
by Rebecca Traister, Salon
Homework inhibits learning, strains families and stunts social development.

Anchors Awry
by Charles P. Pierce, Boston Globe
Nowadays, it's hard to tell our local newscasters apart.

New York Newbie
by David McAnich, New York Times
No other city awes newcomers with an equally intoxicating mixture of indifference and titillation, and no other city has elevated the mere act of arriving to the status of literary and cinematic cliche.

A Christian Shrine In A Muslim Land
by Scott Spencer, New York Times
Casual readers of Greek mythology are often surprised to learn that if you want to visit what is left of Troy, you have to travel to Turkey. And those familiar with Christianity might also be surprised to learn that millions of people believe that in her final years the Virgin Mary also found her home in Turkey, a couple of hundred miles south of Troy, near the ancient city of Ephesus.

InCities Across The United States, It's Raining Concert Halls
by Daniel J. Wakin, New York Times
The stories behind these buildings show the wide array of hopes that a community invests in a new performing space, even at a time when many fret that classical music is becoming less relevant.

The Lost Action Hero
by Stephen Hunter, Washington Post
Strong, stoic, feared: Alas, Hollywood doesn't make 'em like it used to.

Fantasy Or Fact - Japan's Children Play Safe
by Justin McCurry, The Guardian
Anxious parents flock to a risk-free indoor playground amid fears of rising crime.

Remembrance Of Downtown Past
by Holland Cotter, New York Times
A Times reporter remembers a time when, in the shadow of the Twin Towers, art, creativity and open space flourished.

Expensive Care
by Roger Downey, Seattle Weekly
How to run up a $17,000 hospital tab without actually being sick.

Lost, Again, In Seattle
by Jonathan Kauffman, Seattle Weekly
Can I just get a proper bus map?