12 December 2002 By The Morning News — 12 Dec 2002 New York's currently: humming Sinatra Sunken tanker off Spanish coast to be second-worst oil spill in history. North Korea restarts nuclear program, frozen in 1994, in reaction to U.S.-led oil embargo. Have a hard time getting through Union Square yesterday? Blame the person who taped 38 empty black cardboard boxes, each with FEAR written on the side, to benches and walls. President reviving nationwide smallpox vaccinations. Vivendi raided by French police over alleged financial sham involving Jean-Marie Messier. Top 100 wines of the year. U.S. policing misfires, shamed when boat full of Scuds sails on to Yemen. More than 25 percent of California children are overweight. Killing women for being raped or cooking badly up 25 percent in Pakistan. Passionate arguments on burning crosses in the Supreme Court. City preparing penalties in case transit workers walk. IBM and Philip Glass came together to produce The Philip Glass Engine. 101 Damnations reading tonight in Williamsburg. Alabama's most violent prison houses women. [ via ts ] The Secret Lives of Numbers: Studying the popularity of certain arrangements of digits.
