24 June 2002

  • New York's currently: filled with women in flip-flops
  • Two new monkey species discovered.
  • In Show Low, Arizona, red tags mark homes that will burn.
  • Fire kills Brooklyn family of 7 in New York's deadliest residential fire in 15 years.
  • Those who once built churches...Giant new mall proposed for Syracuse, bigger than Minnesota's Mall of America.
  • Senators, led by Jeffords, to subpoena White House for documents related to recent decision to let coal-powered plants go free on air pollution.
  • Bush looks for love with old trick, new face: dog-lover.
  • Mississippi builds prisons it doesn't need.
  • The legal battle behind a porno made by a one-legged mobster.
  • BBC apologizes after soccer-casters swear, mock Germans, head off to pub for karaoke, thinking microphones were off.
  • David Remnick on the 'legit Brit' and moral boxer Lennox Lewis.
  • North Carolina cooking reviewed, unfortunately Bonn's doesn't make the list.
  • With wisdom, training, and forethought, scientists create spider-goat.
  • Fun with question marks: Illustration, Japanese illustration magazine. [via ak]
  • Paul Goldberger on the new MOMA in Queens.
  • Don't worry, NBC is working on hard on finding a new Seinfeld: The Audition tests.
  • President Bush takes part in fitness fun run with White House staffers on Saturday; overenthusiastic Secret Service agent who sprinted past Bush in the last thirty yards told not to bother coming into work on Monday.