1 August 2006

  • New York's currently: 649°
  • Israel to widen ground offensive in Lebanon; does Hezbollah win by losing?
  • Following up on its own 2003 advice, FDA to push for endorsing the morning-after pill.
  • Stories of men who hunt hairballs under London.
  • "Thankless job" for hedge-fund manager with a cacophony in his mouth.
  • I don't even know who this gentleman, Mr. Steely Dan, is. Owen Wilson responds to charges of plagiarism.
  • Hitchens: Mel Gibson just may qualify as an anti-Semite.
  • Preparing for surgery, Castro hands over power to brother Raul.
  • NATO assumes command of international forces in southern Afghanistan.
  • Lebanon's "capital of resistance" post-termination.
  • How to remodel your home without destroying your relationship.
  • U.K. cinema brews its own Coca-Cola; French beach bans bare tops, thonged bottoms.
  • Meat now America's No. 2 condiment.
  • Literary guide to West Texas.
  • Marketers take note: Russell Simmons says God is sexy.
  • Strange statues around the world.
  • Creepy German impersonates Franz Xaver Messerschmidt's famous physiognomic heads.
  • Pentagon watching closely as more war videos from Iraq and Afghanistan go online.
  • Politically incorrect alphabet, e.g., abortion, chain gang, Yank.
  • Thirty-nine years later, police arrest two men for boy's murder.
  • Forget smoking bananas or drinking nutmeg--now the kids are all about the mothballs.
  • "Unsuitable" first names and other recent bans in Malaysia.
  • D.C.'s youth curfew, part of emergency crime bill, pushed up from midnight to 10 p.m.
  • Slideshow of shivs.
  • One hundred and one New York cheap eats ranked.
  • No. 6 train wins best subway.
  • Facts and figures about NYC taxis, and several driver profiles.
  • Hack Harry Potter with Brad Neely's "Wizard People, Dear Reader."