12 September 2007: Morning
By The Morning News
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Bush to cut back troops to "pre-surge" numbers.
"There is no military solution in Iraq and there never was." Obama has a plan, too.
Triple-word score if your kid is born on Lenin's birthday: In Russia's Ulyanovsk, workers told to stay home, have sex, make babies.
"Freegans" take trash tours, cook with would-be garbage, and live on consumer waste.
Led Zeppelin joins the reunion crowd this year.
Thurston Moore ponders a Sonic Youth reunion tour--if only they'd broken up.
And the Oscars go to...Jon Stewart.
"It's official: three-minute pop songs are now two minutes too long for the MTV attention span."
Air Guitar World Championships held in Finland; oddly, the top prizes are guitars.
Viking ship discovered under British pub.
"Your friends are making you fat," and other examples of contagious junk science.
Humans evolve beyond other species due to potatoes.
Canine behavioral science: old dogs, new tricks.
Watch out, Knut: global warming predicted to wipe out two-thirds of the world's polar bears by 2050.
