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26 September 2002

By The Morning News —
  • New York's currently: little kids the size of their backpacks
  • Mayor's Office releases Management Report, including tons of information about your neighborhood.
  • Tropical Storm Isidore came ashore this morning.
  • U.S. resumes talks with North Korea.
  • This autumn, according to the congressional Advisory Committee on Student Financial Assistance, 170,000 eligible students will not enrol in college because they lack the money to do so. Horribly no surprise, but let's not forget: America has a tuition crisis.
  • Ben Arnoldy's Daily Update for the Monitor still an excellent summary and collection of news.
  • Martha Burk takes on Hootie Johnson to have women included in the Augusta National Golf Club.
  • At noon on the summer solstice in the Egyptian town now called Aswan, the sun hovers straight overhead…Physicists choose the most beautiful experiments of all time. Related: The full list, from Physics World, including the winner.
  • Men who paid street people to fight or hurt themselves, then filmed it as 'Bumfights,' arrested.
  • H O T: TMN writer Paul Ford to embarrass himself this weekend on NPR show Rewind, discussing his recent story 'Where Are They Now?' Tune in!
  • Teacher catches student smoking, forces student to eat cigarette.
  • Why shouldn't writers be celebrities? Most work at least as hard as actors…Two new magazines, built for readers. Related: Look at Halle Berry: according to my bible, Heat magazine, her husband is having trouble hiding his resentment at her success while his own career is in a holding pattern above planet Straight-to-Video. Good story on the sexes: Once novelist Marian Keyes made enough money to stay home, her husband quit his job.