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3 February 2004

By The Morning News —
  • New York's currently: leering at groundhogs
  • Lethal poison Ricin suspected in Senate offices, three buildings closed.
  • Kerry loosens up, works the crowd to better effect.
  • Bush unveils arts-slashing budget that also drops prison programs. Related: A budget that plays upon America's fears.
  • France passes bill banning 'conspicuous' religious symbols in public school.
  • 'This thing is going to be an administrative nightmare.' Meet line 56 on the New York state income tax form, for unpaid sales and use taxes.
  • Longing for a token: when MetroCard machines break down.
  • City send 150 cops to patrol its most crime-prone schools.
  • California dogs without leashes, going feral.
  • Mingering Mike, the music star who never existed with a back catalog that did.
  • F.C.C. to investigate release of Janet Jackson's breast. Related: It depends on whether or not you think Carol Channing, who was the sole half-time act at Super Bowl IV, is a saucy minx. Q&A on what was up with the Super Bowl.
  • How to build a nation, whenever nation-building is required.
  • Many of them are up in years and can be recognized by their fur hats, weather-beaten faces, and thick mustaches. They sip vodka and indulge in nostalgia for their homeland. Russian ice-fishing in Westchester.
  • Insects in album cover art. [via coudal]
  • The economic implications of discovering a frozen Copper Age corpse.
  • Incredible lists. [via ftrain]