13 September 2006

  • 14 September 2006: Due to system failure, today's headlines will be published at 11 a.m.
  • New York's currently: still looking awful good
  • Spitzer, Clinton win Democratic primaries; a map of the races and how they're panning out.
  • In a single day, police in Baghdad discover 60 bodies that have been bound, tortured, and shot.
  • Yesterday President Bush sensed a "Third Awakening," predicted a decades-long war with terrorists.
  • Girls Gone Wild fined $2.1 million for failing to verify Girls legally Women.
  • Osama bin Laden is posing as a middle school teacher in Ephrata, Wash.
  • Governator's files victim of beginner hacking--also known as deleting parts of web addresses.
  • Video: Jean-Claude Van Damme, Freshmaker.
  • Average Americans show they're pretty good at smuggling banned items onto planes.
  • In 2004, researchers concluded that 150,000 lives could be saved annually if sodium levels in packaged and restaurant foods were cut in half. The war over salt.
  • Newborn heir to Japanese throne named Hisahito and given a tree for a personal crest, ensuring he lives a long, prosperous life with good posture.
  • Fine teas to make their debut in bags; study finds green tea cuts the risk of cardiovascular disease by a quarter.
  • Where to get artisanal coffee in New York; hint: not in the breakroom.
  • Reviving those in a vegetative state--with a sleeping pill.
  • Rosecrans Baldwin on the week in mp3s in today's Digest.
  • Gates and Rockefeller Foundations unveil plan to transform food production for sub-Saharan Africa.
  • Two men donate kidneys to each others' wives, though probably not because the Redskins lost.
  • Air Force chief thinks good PR could come from testing non-lethal weapons on U.S. crowds.
  • Striving to remain anonymous online means having to remember your password for the Wall Street Journal.
  • Chopping off stingray tails, though rare, may not be revenge for Irwin after all.
  • There is a first-aid room on the first floor; all injuries, "no matter how minor," must be reported. When American-style litigation meets risk-averse Britain.
  • Extremely little people in London.