print email comment close Slate: Explainer URL: http://www.slate.com/id/1787/landing/1 Description: "Answers to your questions about the news." Covers both serious and frivolous topics such as why the color green is so important to the Muslim world, how many balloons would it take to lift a house, how to find a missing plane, why car dealerships are closing, and what is a pandemic health alert. Includes material back to 1998. From the online magazine Slate. Publisher: Washington Post.Newsweek Interactive Co. LLC LII Database Information: Record 28318 created by Maria Brandt on 05/04/2009 Last modification on 06/22/2009 Published: 06/24/2009   LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/28318