11 October 2006
By The Morning News
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Either a small plane or helicopter crashed into an Upper East Side building.
As though you needed another reason to plug your ears when that A train flies by, study finds NYC subway riding can result in hearing loss.
Remembrance: As a gourmand Johnny Apple loved it all, and he loved it in enormous amounts.
To strongly desire to swing from the pole on the rear foot plate of a bus. Words for significant moments in life that have yet to be named.
Create your own ambient theme song.
Kidnapped Austrian girl to purchase captor's home, give his mother visitation rights.
Booker Prize's winner's mother hiding out in northern India village, too nervous to hear the results.
There is a big difference between someone who commits suicide in depression and someone who commits suicide because they have been ideologically brainwashed.
Army recruit. Army want you join. You join, yes?
Alternatingly obvious, questionable, and interesting origins of rock band names.
Mp3s of great moments in radio history: Messages left for Morrissey; Sex Pistols diss Elvis; Ken Sims wins.
Excerpts from Gotcha! The 500 Best Practical Jokes for Amputees.
Slate announces Fall Fiction Week and, surprise surprise, it's a wet dream for the big names and those who market them.
Africans elsewhere accuse South African companies of imperialism.
Many telephone hacks, including free international calls.
U.N. to soon pass judgment on Kosovo's status--Serbian province, or independent state.
Rice: No attack planned, but prepare for nasty sanctions; North Korea: Back off, or war.
To stop North Korea from selling nuclear materials, U.S. must get real politiky with China and Russia.
Kim Jong Il may be a narcissist, but he's no moron.
Carter: We must not allow North Korea to believe they are permanently excluded from the international community.
Forum on why nuclear disarmament became non-vogue and how to bring it back. (Also, conservatives on what we should do next.)
If you want to get with Jennifer Grey and Lea Thompson, toss away that copy of Das Kapital, comrade. Movies that can make you conservative.
Though greeted with skeptical glances, Johns Hopkins study says 600,000 Iraqi civilians have died from violence since 2003.
Only 33 of 12,000 FBI agents have even limited proficiency in Arabic.
Self-assembling protein molecules can plug a bleeding wound in seconds.
Tight airport security and love between man and trumpet led to musician with broken arm.
Computers killed the cursive writing star.
Obesity in Scots born in 1932 linked to lower IQs.
Food scientist says 65 percent of overweight Americans don't realize how much they've been eating.
German government prosecutes anti-Nazi brand for displaying crossed-out swastika.
University of Chicago wants to shed its math-nerd image with a $100 million temple to celebrate its arts-nerd past.
Magazine editor undergoes sleek new redesign.
How to build your own cathedral.
Bears fans can now wear a season for optimism on their sleeve.
Pictures of Lucien Freud at work.
I don't give a damn for a man who can spell a word only one way. Mark Twain quotes for aspiring journalists.
Times folk prepare for new floor plans.
