28 July 2005
By The Morning News
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New York's currently: happy building furniture all night until the neighbors complain
Nine suspects rounded up during raids in south London.
After determining the large object that fell away during the Discovery launch was insulating foam--the same error that cost Columbia and its crew--NASA indefinitely grounds future shuttle flights.
Analysis of John Roberts's opinions and memos show, yes, he's extremely conservative.
Robert Moog, legendary instrument creator, is ailing from a brain tumor. Send him your best wishes here.
MTA announces budget surplus and plans to build a giant platform to sell to developers, and that it will still raise fares and tolls.
Heavy monsoon rains in Mumbai, India, have now killed at least 430 people.
Payola is everywhere, in Barnes & Noble, in grocery-store aisles--so why isn't it allowed on the radio?
House narrowly approves Central American Free Trade Act, with 217-215 vote--opponents cite partner countries' lack of worker rights.
Photos of a person's drawings on trash.
Oh well, back to leeches: Echinacea, wouldn't you know it, turns out to have no effect at all on colds or cold symptoms.
There are many good reasons to not hold open the subway doors, but this is probably the best.
Call Spielberg: Man sees a flying-saucer building, for 15 years cannot get it "out of his mind," buys it for his backyard.
H.P. Lovecraft's captions for Family Circus comics here, here, here, and probably elsewhere.
EPA holds off on publishing its annual report on fuel economy; early copies show agency loopholes allowed car manufacturers to produce less-than-efficient vehicles.
George Saunders on a shitload of poisoned beavers.
Group draws up plans for Martian settlement, using many local materials of course.
Parrot who knows dirty words banned from public areas.
The songs that time forgot. And why.
