11 October 2007: Afternoon By The Morning News — 11 Oct 2007 Al Gore's campaign for the presidency is still going strong--less Al Gore. British judge rules Gore's An Inconvenient Truth contains exactly nine untruths. Still, that probably won't stop him from winning the Nobel Peace Prize. British mail workers go on strike; online stores fear the holiday shopping ramifications. "Maybe all they needed was to have a lunch break and it just got misconstrued as a strike." A six-hour Chrysler strike is just long enough. China sees factions as a major obstacle to choosing president's successor; Egypt faces no such difficulty. "Are they telling the needy to die as quickly as possible?" A man's death by starvation shakes up a provincial Japanese city. As more deaths are investigated, the dangers of children's boot camps are revealed. On Monday, the first web domains entirely in foreign script are up and running; what will this crazy new world look like? Whatever it looks like, Google will probably still be on top. Former Mexican presidential candidate caught taking a nine-mile shortcut in Berlin marathon. Any theories for why we're exhuming the Gipper, testing his DNA? In today's feature, Jessica Francis Kane vows that if her NYC garden plot comes through, her clematis will always be in bloom. Balut is upsetting on about a half-dozen levels. The six most terrifying foods in the world.
