16 April 2007: Afternoon

At least 30 dead at Virginia Tech in deadliest campus shooting in American history.

Study finds little improvement in arrest rates after California mandates drug treatment over incarceration.

So many men had passed through Cell 6 that they had left their smell on the walls, and while I was making my own stink, the walls were also passing theirs onto me. Time magazine reporter unintentionally finds himself in a Zimbabwean jail.

Undercover British reporter very intentionally finds a job, as well as drugs and bribes, in a British jail. (Read his diary here.)

Mysterious illness in Mexican boarding school finally diagnosed as a mass psychogenic disorder, a.k.a. collective hysteria.

Russia plans to reintroduce polar bear hunting, due partly to poachings and partly to maulings.

Chinese "zoo" raises tigers for the freezer, where the carcasses will wait out pesky ban on selling endangered animal parts.

NYC councilman's push to require wooden bats in baseball may save lives and may lose games.

With Imus ousted, will other shows clean up their acts? Probably not.

British think tank suggests raising drinking age to 21, or else imposing a three-drink limit for the youngsters.

"You are in the Bronx. A black van is stopping in front of you. Three African-Americans are getting out and they are insulting your mother in the worst ways." German army's unique training techniques. (Practice your German here.)

How to get off a government watch list. That is, if you don't like being randomly selected for additional screening.

And who does the last 31 percent think the vice president is?