28 November 2006: Morning
By The Morning News
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Syria doesn't show up for the press conference, but Iran promises to help end violence in Iraq, assuming the U.S. gets out.
Iran and Syria have been helping Hezbollah train the Mahdi Army.
If the West abandons Iraq, says Hitchens, "the victors will be able to rub their eyes at how easy it was."
Op: Remembering Tet and Somalia, the U.S. should be very careful before concluding that Iraq is a defeat.
U.S. and European efforts to end heroin production in Afghanistan have done little except cripple poorest people.
Nicaragua joins El Salvador in saying no abortions ever.
States to restrict smoking in locations where children are present.
No one knows why more children, globally, are getting asthma.
Data suggests the oil industry is squeezing supply to drive profits.
Impatient with the White House, executives, planners, and wild animals are responding swiftly to global warming.
Photos of baby animals in the womb.
Attempting to conduct the subatomic equivalent of arriving at the train station before you've left home.
Video: Brian Atene, who auditioned memorably for Stanley Kubrick, returns.