11 September 2006

  • New York's currently: blue sky and sunny
  • Families of 9/11 victims recovering, grieving, arriving somewhere new five years later.
  • Ground Zero remains a hole in New York's heart--and the best analogy for its progress since 9/11 may be "a novel, a cheap novel," says Libeskind.
  • Secret Marine report says western Iraqi province is lost politically with dim prospects for recapture.
  • Op: Al-Qaeda and its allies have learned from the past five years, the West has not.
  • Story of a comedian who walked on stage on Sept. 14, 2001.
  • Editor in chief of the Scientific Review of Alternative Medicine says acupuncture is useless and alternative medicine doesn't exist.
  • Wired's top 40 fan-submitted photo tributes to Star Trek.
  • For schools, most popular freshmen are 15,000 Saudis with full-tuition scholarships.
  • Term papers purchased off the internet are as awkwardly written and redundant as real term papers.
  • College radio and college football simultaneously assessed.
  • September 11 films reviewed in light of Greek tragedy.
  • Increasing number of spooks opt for government-sponsored insurance to cover legal bills if it turns out their work is less-than-legal.
  • Canadian literature is more than Alice Munro and Michael Ondaajtee. Birnbaum in today's Digest on what to read this September.
  • Fake sex poster lures men on Craigslist, publishes their responses.
  • The difficulties of uncovering bad acts committed by Americans at war.
  • When picking stocks, you're a lot less intelligent--and a lot more moody--than you realize.
  • F-train Brooklyn is the worst borough to live in if you want to be a writer.
  • iPod no longer cool, life without meaning; though that's not to say knock-offs are too quickly gaining ground.
  • China's Loveline helps some and worries more.
  • How much can you fit inside a shopping cart?
  • The case of the doughnut that may have attacked Mayor Bloomberg.
  • Magnum photographs of Ground Zero.