20 March 2007: Afternoon
By The Morning News
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Another sign of Iraq's toll, the 82nd Airborne is no longer so ready to roll.
Today's long read: Fascinating profile of sex-related and combat stress in female soldiers.
Scientific notes on morality and war. See also, does stress really cause acne? Why yes.
Thirty strangest deaths in history, including "death from holding a pee."
Seventy-five-year-old Queens badass hopes to raise enough money to reach the North Pole.
Americans rush to claim free land in rural Alaska.
How the Hamptons were invaded, architecturally, by the Shingle Style; how Ireland exports its five styles of calculated pubs.
German study finds reckless gaming leads to reckless living.
Puzzles continue over who painted China's faux-green mountain.
Video: For months, Alan Conway pretended to be Stanley Kubrick, while knowing nothing about him or his films.
Hollywood uproar when Julie Taymor hands in her psychedelic Beatles love story, and the man who once doubted her masks gets to make his own cut.
A Woody Allen walking tour of Manhattan.
In case you missed it, the final episode of Ze Frank's "The Show" (the last week is also terrific, with or without Jack Black).
Mailbag: TMN readers react to the ToB. Meanwhile, Crispin leaves with blood on her hands after Messud and Adichie battle it out.
Artists performing songs from Jonathan Lethem's "Promiscuous Materials Project."