15 August 2005
By The Morning News
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New York's currently: a land of potted plants
For roughly 5,000 Israeli settlers and protesters, the midnight deadline to leave Gaza came and went; this morning soldiers sealed off the strip and began serving eviction notices.
When faced with the soldiers, some protesters in Gaza block roads, slash tires, while others present domestic wholesomeness.
Options for the still-absent Iraqi Constitution: 1) Get another extension (possible); 2) dissolve the government (also possible); 3) cut out the Sunnis (bad idea).
Cypriot airliner crashes under strange circumstances, killing all 121 on board.
Tracking the ways the London bomb suspects became militant, and what about American Muslims who feel they are slowly being marginalized?
Two college students die of apparent overdose in ex-cons' Lower East Side apartment.
After a season of book tours (and refusals to do them) and interviews (and declining them), two highly anticipated novels end the summer in radically different places.
How to shuffle a deck of cards with one hand.
The best place for endangered species is a cozy, bombed-out military training zone.
New evidence purports the Rolling Stones' Brian Jones was murdered over bad debts.
Crawford resident tires of activists, fires shotgun over their heads.
Hot: iPod subway maps; not hot: dog condoms.
New York eateries say losing trans fats means losing flavor, but do trans fats actually taste like anything?
Election strategists lick their chops at the thought of planned communities.
"And it must be 3 1/4 seconds long." Interview with Brian Eno from 1996, when he explains how he wrote the Windows start-up sound.
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