13 April 2007: Afternoon
By The Morning News
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L.A.'s Sugar Shack fights for their mural, or, how to be a hippie in the 21st-century.
Mexican drug traffickers resort to medieval tactics, post heads on roadside stakes.
It became clear that the number of work-related nailgun injuries had stayed stable since 1998. It was consumer-related injuries that had soared.
Rather disturbing: Times reporter acquires an eating disorder, nominally in the name of journalism.
"I'm known as Van Girl," she says, "but I've met a lady by the name of Road Bitch, too." Women on life as a roadie.
Calling aspiring models: Clay Risen takes the Non-Expert's desk and offers first steps to the thin life.
Kremlin demands return of ex-pat tycoon after he proposes a new Russian Revolution.
Pictures of Moscow subway workers; the 100-year-old photo blog.
There are sperm in your bones. Unrelated: Mia Farrow makes Steven Spielberg make China make Sudan help Darfur.
Is Katie Couric a plagiarizer by proxy? Should the booze age be rolled back?
We, too, are vexed by the widespread phenomenon of adolescent girls carrying fluffy pillows onto airplanes.
Interracial marriages in U.S. rise from 2 percent of all marriages in 1970 to 7 percent today; Study finds military divorce rates hold steady even after four years of war.
Amazon's Easter butt plugs marketing campaign reached wrong audience.
Sarah Hepola is the correct audience in today's Digest for Patrick Swayze's dancing video, plus other online hits.
Call it apocalyptic, call it a myth. Just don't call it sci-fi.
Call it fashion, call it fluff, call it Dress & Suit.