23 May 2007: Morning
By The Morning News
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Dems back down on troop-withdrawal deadlines, can't seem to pass ethics overhaul in the House.
Thousands use lull in fighting to flee Lebanon.
How Hamas could win cash merely by hinting that it accepts Israel's right to exist.
Chivvying the world's nastiest countries by putting them in charge of good causes is a promising principle.
Op: Politicians should pay much closer attention to Russia's dealings with states on the EU's borderlands.
Stories and pictures of email scammers baited to be ridiculous. Unrelated: mosh-pit children appear to be having sex.
"Career" rarely the reason young women aren't having babies.
Today's long read: Hitchens visits "Londonistan."
Architects fight over who was first to imagine "a giant, geometrically idealized, self-sustaining, sun-powered megalopolis."
Viagra only helps with jetlag when you're flying west to east.
Why are we having this absurd conversation? Because we're in an important post 9/11 literary event. Digested read of the new DeLillo.
Man wonders if 13 years of surfing the internet has stolen in and ruined his brain.
Lace security curtains, and other cute ways to protect the home.
Gaffes perpetuated by British sports commentators.
Some people think anything with a dog or a car or a colorful alien [on the label] is garbage, which is not true. Questions for Wine Library TV's Gary "Dirty Jerse" Vaynerchuk.
Price tag pinned on New Jersey's natural beauty.
Bidding video of David Rockefeller's Rothko selling for $72,000,000 (see story).
Other high-stakes video: Lions take a game, crocs interrupt the set, buffalos win matchpoint.
