29 June 2005 By The Morning News — 29 Jun 2005 New York's currently: terrified of high-rise a/c window-unit meteors With no new strategies to fight off attacks, Bush declares daily sacrifice of American lives in Iraq to be "worth it." Immigrants' fingerprints expire every 15 months, though no one at the immigration service can explain why. Canada becomes third country to legalize gay marriage nationwide. Female novelists rule Iran's publishing charts. Islamic gay-haters in New York City--how can intolerance be tolerated? Danny Gregory walks you step-by-step through his watercolors for TMN. Remembering Staff Sgt. Anthony Lagman and Sgt. Michael J. Esposito Jr. After Nike apologizes for robbing Minor Threat graphics, what other album covers can be ruined by corporations? Shelby Foote dies at 88. (Hear Foote on his friendship with Walker Percy.) Ass crack is alive and well in New York, and now it's intentional! Joe Miller's jests--jokes from the 18th and 19th centuries--still produce groans (enduringly popular groans). French literary competitions plagued by corruption. Safire returns to the Op-Ed page to defend Miller and Cooper, calling for Novak to explain himself. A view of Niger from a car with no brakes. 15 days of tube hell in London compiled as a three-minute video. American students under attack in Australia, finding themselves quite unloved. You are asked to do something odd during a job interview that makes you uncomfortable--do you do it? The Hillary Clinton book: Finally, 18th-century political pornography is back! Very detailed foodie fantasy Iron Chef starring Thomas Keller and Heston Blumenthal.