28 April 2006

  • New York's currently: a la luz de la aurora
  • Hoping to stem rising gasoline costs, Senate Republicans propose $100 rebate for taxpayers and extra taxes on oil companies.
  • ExxonMobil announces first-quarter earnings, is on track to break last year's record profits.
  • Iraq's top Shiite cleric says militias should disarm, which alarms secular and Sunni Iraqis--who don't like the sound of Shiite religious figures involved in governing.
  • Iran "does not give a damn" about today's U.N. nuclear deadline.
  • Little, Brown to recall all editions of Kaavya Viswanathan's novel, remove the plagiarized sections, and reissue it.
  • Want to be a plagiarist? Enter the TMN "Sloppy Seconds With Opal Mehta" contest, starting today!
  • Aspiring authors, take note: There is no such thing as a photographic memory.
  • Should FEMA be dismantled, rebuilt? With hurricane season just over a month away, the powers that be should start agreeing.
  • Bush will approve takeover of nine military parts plants by Dubai firm--another day in the life of the decider.
  • Murder by numbers in NYC--random killings are rare, though summers are bad.
  • Stunt-taking host from the Discovery Channel is arrested before parachute attempt off the Empire State Building.
  • The evidence speaks for itself: Superman is a dick.
  • Saudi Arabia takes one step forward by allowing women to work in mixed-sex lingerie stores, one step back by kicking out the men; the UAE is having issues too.
  • Oh say can you see--a la luz de la aurora? New take on the national anthem is set for Spanish-radio airwaves today.
  • Video of the Week: Ze Frank's "The Show."
  • U.S. wants to extradite British citizen accused of hacking into top-secret government networks in order to find out about aliens.
  • Now you have to steal people's brains instead of their passwords.
  • David Bowie is very disappointed in you--and he's not the only one.