26 June 2002

  • New York's currently: tossing the palm tree overboard
  • we need your help: we are starting a new column that responds to readers' questions, about anything. please send any and all questions via email. thanks.
  • WorldCom overstates cash flow by $3.8 billion.
  • Forgotten New York, an astounding collection of metropolitan history. Related: Clay Risen's Flak article on Forgotten's creator, Kevin Walsh.
  • Pavarotti to retire in 2005.
  • Verbatim demands proper usage.
  • 'How New York City Changed Sex In America.' Wait. Did it? [thanks, Kylie]
  • Avoid nausea with videos from 10 of America's best roller-coasters.
  • Social theory action figures: featuring the Amazing Michel Foucault.
  • Beautiful photography in the Konica Sessions.
  • Sixteen lies and a truth about Paris.
  • Good HWR this week: A Spanish count crossed the Atlantic Ocean on a jet ski. People were starving in Africa, and fires were raging across the American West.