19 September 2005 By The Morning News — 19 Sep 2005 New York's currently: pouffy-haired non-stop North Korea pledges to end its nuclear weapons program, U.S. agrees to respect its sovereignty. One billion dollars plundered from Iraq's defense ministry. Millions of Afghans voted in the country's first free legislative elections in more than 25 years. Both Merkel and Schröder claim chancellorship after neither won a majority in the German election. Within five minutes, the carpet started to erupt. Man builds up 30,000 volts of static electricity. Iran's President does what U.S. pressure/diplomacy could not: unites the world against him. Solutions for managing queues in international theme park design. Salary guide for plenty of known New Yorkers. Op: White people have a hard time believing blacks are just like them. Pace of another storm has federal government urging slow return to New Orleans. Newspaper design used to be big, bold and beautiful--what happened? Even kids cannot stand life unless they have a drink. Lager-style soda Kidsbeer exported from Japan. U.S. military claims gains against Zarqawi using body counts, though by that standard Zarqawi is probably winning. Did the Penn State marching band have a good time on the Marc Jacobs runway? Yes. Summary of imbalances in the world economy. The bestseller lists of the past 50 years are a somber graveyard of dead books. Carlos Fuentes on the saving grace of literature. Complicated variations on rock, paper, scissors. Floodweiser--jocular name for water distributed in cans by Anheuser-Busch--and other new words from the fringes of English. How to spot a drunken Saville Row tailor.