18 April 2007: Afternoon By The Morning News — 18 Apr 2007 Bomb explosions today kill at least 157 in Baghdad. Britain drops the phrase "war on terror," finding it "ill-defined, oversimplistic, and excessively martial and Manichaean." Gov. Kaine orders, at Virginia Tech's request, an independent investigation of campus response to the shootings. "They want to blame me for all the blood in rap." New suspect fingered as Jam Master Jay's killer. Supreme Court votes 5-4 to uphold constitutionality of federal ban on partial birth abortions. Only time will tell if Asia's richest women left her $4.2 billion fortune to the fortune-teller or the feng shui master. A not-bitter children's book author not-bitterly writes about having her book released one week before Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. Shortlist for Orange Prize features a "not intellectual" novel in broken English, as well as other promising reads. Twenty-five years after Canada got its independence, the Prime Minister reveals what he said to the Queen that was just so funny. Former astronaut Buzz Aldrin plans to raffle off trip into space. (That is, when he's not punching detractors in the face.) Russia's invasion of Alaska only a few billion dollars and 10-15 years away. Signs of the times: TurboTax crashes on Tax Day; BlackBerry loses email service in North America. Convenience of digital music means no one really sad about the death of the $5,000 turntable needle. Except the guy who sells it.
