18 August 2005 By The Morning News — 18 Aug 2005 New York's currently: just perfect Forty extremists, with their leader threatening to shoot any intruders, holed up in Gaza house surrounded by 500 soldiers. Hundreds of teenage protesters barricade themselves in Gaza synagogues. Studies find black Americans still get far fewer operations, medications, life-saving treatments than whites. Israeli settler shot and killed three Palestinians after stealing a guard's gun; Israeli woman set herself on fire. Building a suitcase bomb in Brooklyn is a lot of work, discovers TMN's Choire Sicha. Hatred and jihad are still on the lesson books in Pakistan's public schools. Art the Nazis didn't want you to see. Video: Man rocks to Clap Your Hands Say Yeah. Edible meat can be grown in a lab on an industrial scale, scientists say. Osama bin Laden: One of today's best prose writers in Arabic. Al-Qaeda's plans for the next 15 years, according to a journalist who knows its leaders. C.K. Williams on how he started writing poetry. There is a tendency to view all homeland security expenditures as reactionary and one-dimensional. Is terrorism good for crime-fighting? Photographs of New York restaurant interiors. Heroin addicts in Tompkins Square say even deadly dope is still dope. Op: How to learn from Victoria Beckham in the neighborhood where she got her boobs done. Los Angeles football parents in an uproar after Coach Snoop starts his own league.