19 July 2007: Morning

  • Midtown steampipe explosion kills one in Manhattan, injures 30 (video, photos, comments).
  • Buried hazards in the city: aging pipes, asbestos contamination.
  • Study finds 85 percent of men who look at porn depicting children also molest them.
  • Mexican migrants carry H.I.V. home to rural hamlets ill-prepared to handle the disease.
  • Determine your home's "walk score," or how close it is to nearby services.
  • How to spot a new Chinese submarine using Google Earth surveillance.
  • London police to gain blanket access to congestion cameras' live tracking of vehicles downtown.
  • J.P. Morgan's new $2 billion World Trade Center building compared to a Buddha belly, among kinder comments.
  • Report card on New York's beaches.
  • Aggression, mental "superheating" required to swim at the North Pole.
  • Strategies for welcoming Nick Nolte when he's superheated in an airport.
  • Orthodox Israeli officials not keen on welcoming back Potter on the Sabbath.
  • One wonders which musicians should be paired with sonic fabric.
  • Cryptic species--animals that appear identical, but are genetically distinct--may be widespread.
  • Everyone agrees the Muslims are devouring the French, and everyone agrees it's funny. Un-cryptic conservatives on a cruise.
  • Conservatives unlikely to enjoy convincing one's husband to have a baby--as in, him having the baby.
  • The lost art of medical illustration; reviving the lost art of fan letters.
  • Register immediately to be eligible for today's headlines contest (with prizes!) in the TMN Friday Newsletter.
  • Your father's favorite joke of the day: The most accurate timepiece ever invented.