25 October 2005 By The Morning News — 25 Oct 2005 New York's currently: soggy In Baghdad, three car bombs detonate near hotels popular with foreigners, but fail to get past barbed wire. White House seeks to create loophole, wants CIA employees exempt from new measure to cease inhumane treatment of prisoners in U.S. custody. Bush names Ben Bernanke, academic economist and former Fed governor, to succeed Greenspan as chairman of the Fed. Ben Bernanke: "A leading thinker on inflation." Recent setbacks with the Miers nomination may have influenced the Bernanke appointment--he's more of a sure thing. Iraqi voters approve draft constitution; government elections to be held in December. Civil rights icon Rosa Parks dies at 92. Win a copy of Gary Benchley, Rock Star! Find out how. Trailer: The kid from Freaks & Geeks, now a big-screen geek, with a deeper voice. Researchers say circumcision may reduce HIV risk by 60 percent. Wilma batters Florida coasts. (Photos here.) The red-haired French lady who invented the discotheque. Bring plenty of business cards. Advice for when you decide to outsource to India. A dictionary for translating between English and American. The Calvin and Hobbes snow art gallery and using Calvin to make literary arguments. Namibia debates homosexuality. In New Orleans, solving the puzzle of displaced coffins from Katrina and Rita. The Squid and the Whale: Dead-on because Park Slope equals horny intellectuals a hair more than it equals babies. Video: Paul Revere and the Raiders do a car commercial. "The Crud" and other Antarctic slang. The longest list of the longest stuff at the longest domain name at long last.
