Monday, February 23
A new antibody that the flu would not be able to adapt to, and that could be used yearly without change was the most intriguing story of the day. The discovery of a “viral Achilles’ heel” that attacks a non-mutating part of multiple forms of flu virus would also signal possible improvements in treatment for other mutating viruses. The rest of the A section was update of current events.
Tuesday, February 24
I have been a fan of Valery Gergiev, so the nicely headlined “A Russian City’s Wounds are Dressed in Opera Garb” appealed to me as a unique story on a subject I have a previous interest in. The optimism that the seamstresses from Chechen terrorized Vladikavkaz maintained through their work on a premiere of Turandot was moving, with one exclaiming “if someone needs a dress like this all is not lost” in the middle of suicide bombings.
Wednesday, February 25
The dramatic turn in the most highly endowed college’s immediate financial future mirrors a story last week about Harvard and Historically Black Colleges in Georgia, but today’s “Gifts to Colleges Fall” presented a larger cross section with more sweeping claims about the contrast between now and a year ago. NYT argues that 2008 was a record breaking year in endowment for colleges, but now Yale is considering layoffs and Harvard is dropping partially finished expansion plans. Even previous donations are being renegotiated by donors were stretching out the time for payment.
Thursday, February 26
I had recently read an essay which claimed U.S. gun supply to south american drug cartels had very little effect on drug related violence. The front page story, with dramatic emphasis on the negative effects of U.S. weapons making their way into cartels through loose laws in military gun sales, interested me because it filled in the weak spots in a possibly special interest argument.
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