27 September 2007: Afternoon By The Morning News — 27 Sep 2007 Verizon briefly refuses to let abortion rights group text customers, hopes we'll never speak of it again. Is Tania Head's Sept. 11 survival story too good to be true? Nike said it is the first time it has designed a shoe for a specific race or ethnicity. Building sneakers for the Native American foot. The upside of global warming: school boats. Prominent scientists complain after being interviewed for one film and ending up in another. (Ben Stein-heavy trailer here.) Op: In the age of perfect recall, we need to teach ourselves to forget. $600,000 thrown at the problem after Google Earth spots swastika-shaped naval barracks in California. Slate slideshows up everything the erudite person needs to know about the female buttocks. Six Little Rock nuns excommunicated for heresy; one 82-year-old Sister says, "We're doing what we're asked to do." A. J. Jacobs on spending a year following every rule in the Good Book. In today's feature, Nicole Pasulka brings you the best of September's back-to-school hijinks. How to decode your credit card number, with bonus javascript. Video: A hand-made wall animation that rocks our socks.
