11 November 2002

New York's currently: a little bothered by LaGuardia's decision to re-route flights over our house

The hunt is on for Gamma Kolos, radioactive 'antique milk cans' littered across former Soviet republics.

Poll finds youths prefer war, elders prefer peace.

India struggles for strategy to care for its four million people with HIV. Related: Bill Gates goes to India to distribute 120 million to fight AIDS.

Try Babil Newspaper, the Iraqi paper published by Saddam Hussein's son, who can apparently be reached at his yahoo.com email address. Related: David Gallagher discovers how difficult it is to contact the world's least friendly regimes.

'Do I have to be in a book with such a clumsy opening sentence?' asked Harriett, Charlotte's petite precocious 10-year-old daughter with the brown bob who bore absolutely no resemblance to the author. Great spoiler-poke at Donna Tartt's Little Friend.

Egyptian playwright Ali Salem shunned for traveling/ties to Israel.

Thai village raided by 500 monkeys.

On the business side...The Times stays strong by investing at all times.

'Couples slept alone.' And if they started kissing, there would always be a fade-out. 'You had the impression that if you had sex, you were going to fade out.' Woody Allen goes onstage for an interview with a psychoanalyst.

The Nation runs an activism weblog, ActNow, with information about upcoming anti-war protests.

Wanting one so badly...iPods travel around the world, including to Mick Jagger's garden.

Lane reviews Far from Heaven and Ararat.

Luminescent photography by Deborah Mesa-Pelly.