12 May 2004

  • New York's currently: doubting the forecasts
  • Before Senate hearing, general and under secretary of defense contradict each other on who was in charge of Iraq prisons.
  • Militants in Iraq behead West Chester, Pa., man in retaliation for American prison abuses.
  • U.S. abuse cases reach to Afghanistan, where a former police colonel recounts similar treatment last summer.
  • Stunning computer animation and the largest lawnmower in the world.
  • Thirty years in the planning, Chelsea recreation center finally opens.
  • How to destory a political opponent, according to the 2000 campaign to elect Bush: Hire lawyers and watch. Related: Kerry and Bush focus on an increasingly complex electoral map.
  • Built by Wendy fashions a new line with Wrangler.
  • In the face of diminishing yields and the promises of Nafta, Native Americans continue the search for peyote buttons.
  • Famous chefs, criss-crossing the country to cookand open new restaurants.
  • The history of the English language, diagrammed.
  • The Strand Book Store doubles its measurements, from eight miles of books, to 16.
  • Coffee and tea: More effective when you drink it smaller and often.
  • Mike Sacks is dynamite, strong, captivating. Mike Sacks enjoys reading to senior citizens. A promotional message from Michael Sacks to his girlfriend.
  • Back to the original, but which to buy? Selecting from the many species of wild salmon.
  • Two years after his brother's death, David Reimer, of the notorious Brian-Brenda gender experiment, kills self.
  • A primer on cleaning out old foodstuffs from your pantry, determining which are the rancid, the expired, and the mummified.
  • Celebrate your synthesision at the MoogFest, Tuesday, May 15, with Rick Wakeman and Keith Emerson at B.B. King's Bar & Grill in Times Square.
  • Photographic essays on modern ruins.