22 September 2005

  • New York's currently: making up its own yoga moves
  • Bearing down on Texas, Hurricane Rita, the third strongest hurricane ever recorded, is expected to hit near Houston on Saturday.
  • Clogged highways, shot nerves for the 1.1 million Texans evacuating the coast.
  • New Orleans levees can handle up to four inches of Rita's rain, enough for the storm's current path--some say rain may help dilute the toxic water.
  • Why the intense hurricanes? Because they both fed from the same deep, warm water. (Or maybe there really is an al Qaeda weather machine.)
  • New collection of stories out by TMN's Kevin Fanning.
  • Vatican rules homosexuals, celibate or not, are barred from the priesthood.
  • Gambling industry to receive the tax breaks it usually doesn't in Gulf recovery projects.
  • Landing-gear malfunction forces emergency landing at LAX, passengers learn the severity by watching TV coverage on the plane.
  • Studies say flu vaccine is "modestly effective" in the elderly, possibly ineffective for all.
  • Men love anonymous gay sex in a Queens parking lot for the honesty about STDs, and also the bargain dates.
  • The relatively short history of federal disaster relief.
  • Video: High school percussion group plays DJ Shadow's Endtroducing.
  • "Get off the pot and get it done." And on-street pay toilets in NYC are imminent--and look swell.
  • Man shot dead outside Lower East Side bar, possibly for spilling a drink on another man's girlfriend.
  • James Dean: reputedly gay in private, straight in private-private.
  • Contagious, potentially fatal dog flu reported in seven states.
  • Up to a quarter of New Orleans restaurants may have to close.
  • Online book galleries from the British Library.
  • In the war of country-club sports, golf wins, and that makes tennis players none too happy.
  • A unique and exact way of looking at things, and finding the right context for expressing that way of looking, that's something else. Carver on writing.
  • What you need is an inflatable pub.