18 March 2005

New York's currently: crazy from the heat

Deficit reduction goes awry for Bush when the House and Senate pass competing budgets--the Senate's version doesn't include the cuts in Medicaid he asked for.

And what happens if the two chambers can't agree on a budget? Then there isn't one, just like last year.

Players give testimony at Congressional baseball steroid hearings.

Private retirement accounts will never work. Except that they have in Galveston, Tex., since 1981.

Spreading democracy turns out to be an awfully expensive endeavor.

Photos from the day Motown came to the U.K.

In Iraq, cutting hair may get you killed.

Beautiful sets of Brian Eno's Oblique Strategies cards, available now.

The history of the automat little-glass-door diners.

Wait. Did you just say "carnivorous shrimp?"

Chinese parks to end practice of feeding live horses and cattle to lions and tigers.

Appear as a guest star on The Simpsons and face a quick demise.

Explaining fleshy British tabloids to Americans.

Songs that contain overt references to real musicians.

Shorter people of the same proportions as taller people have many physical advantages based on the laws of physics, and these advantages are supported by many researchers. It's good to be short.