12 June 2006

  • New York's currently: a stone fox
  • Iran accepts parts of the Security Council's nuclear offer, but wants further clarification on issues surrounding uranium enrichment.
  • Details emerge on how three Guantanamo prisoners committed suicide without guards detecting it.
  • One of the detainees was set to be released, but had not yet been notified.
  • Everybody must be glad Zarqawi's dead--including, in fact, Osama bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri.
  • Newly noted books from Robert Birnbaum in today's Digest.
  • Testing taxi integrity, undercover agents discover that acting like a tourist more than doubles your fare from JFK.
  • Cab driver passes out while speeding down West side, causing wreck that kills one of his passengers, injures the other three.
  • Due to poor ticket sales, the Dixie Chicks are changing more than half the dates on their upcoming tour.
  • Video: Cecil Dill and his musical hands.
  • Options for the office-bound World Cup fan.
  • Were the slides taken by a dermatologist or plastic surgeon or were these young women part of some now forgotten experiment.
  • Wal-Mart wants to sell fair-trade coffee, probably wishes it didn't sell fake Fendi.
  • Young-adult novelists revise character's lip gloss in cross-marketing deal.
  • Students who want to take a break from studying can't relate to classmates hopped up on smart pills.
  • "Incentivized jobs" and other lengths to which recent grads will go to pay off hefty debts.
  • Mp3: Find out if you can hear the ring tone only kids--and some teachers, as it turns out--can distinguish.
  • Scientists say babies are not actually sickly little things.
  • The new name for rage is "intermittent explosive disorder," and it makes road rage look like a picnic.
  • Video: How Frank Silva became Bob in Twin Peaks.
  • That's a lot of Heinies: Men must drink 17 beers to benefit from its prostate-cancer-fighting ingredient.