15 August 2001

  • Israel plans a second ground attack at Palestine, suggesting war.
  • Japan's PM Koizumi visited Yasukani, a shrine that honors former military masterminds, to court conservative votes but gained national wrath instead.
  • Bush decides to soften federal rules that would ensure basic care for those on Medicaid.
  • Floridians warned to avoid the beaches as hundreds of sharks gather on coast.
  • Cell phones depend on mud, and in turn, on madames in Africa, sort of.
  • Speed of light suddenly considered evolutionary.
  • Fantastic new story by Haruki Murakami.
  • Very strange portfolio: Lite Alley.