23 November 2005 By The Morning News — 23 Nov 2005 New York's currently: going out for cheeseburgers and calling it a day U.S. charges Jose Padilla after holding him for three and a half years, using evidence collected while he's been confined. Pentagon tentatively plans to reduce U.S. troops in Iraq by three brigades in 2006. Rome bans gays from becoming priests unless their gayness has been overcome. Did a fear of intelligent designers scare off backers for the Natural History Museum's Darwin exhibit? After the internet, aliens aren't very interesting anymore. WaPo loves the torture brand, now applied to Porter Goss. See also, Post invites readers to mash up its website. Loads of new TMN merch for your holiday shopping needs! At least 16 killed by suicide car bomber in Kirkuk. Answers to questions posed on magazine covers. Op: The French riots point out ways French judges can be more useful. Great classical CDs released this fall. Singer-songwriter Chris Whitley dies from lung cancer at 45. U.S. and Europe put off referring Iran to the Security Council. Iranian president's third nominee for oil minister rebuffed by MPs, seen as unloyal. The usefulness of a chocolate teapot--not very useful. Good news and bad news for female writers this past year in the New Yorker. Details of daily work for a New York City bio-recovery technician. Macy's trains its Thanksgiving balloon handlers with instruction sheets (see PDF of the instructions). Marines salivate over thoughts of hot turkey, while man uses turkey to save two. Thanksgiving video: "An eye for Annai."
