15 March 2007: Evening
By The Morning News
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15 Mar 2007
Zimbabwe's opposition leader suffers brutal attack at hands of police, finds in it "inspiration." Drop in New York City's welfare figures matched by an increase in homelessness. New Mexico bans cockfighting , Louisiana, the sole remaining state where the sport is legal, considers following suit. Kentucky's strip mines filling with unslaughtered nags thanks to new limits on exporting horse meat. I'm Chiquita banana and I'm here to say... I pay off militant terrorist groups every day. Germans scoff at a proposed Autobahn speed limit. Last WWI combat veteran dies in his sleep at age 109. Carl Linnaeus celebrates his 300th birthday, and we celebrate Sjupp, his moody pet raccoon. "I've got five phrases here, and you've got to tell us whether they're Bible or not," says Stone one recent morning, talking to a caller named Stephanie. The Morning Zoo goes Christian. When brand-name drugs go generic, prices don't always fall. Garrison Keillor wants the gays to tone it down and the children to clip-clop merrily along. Das gröste Banner der Welt , or a life-size whale for your Thursday evening enjoyment.
