3 January 2005
By The Morning News
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New York's currently: (just like) starting over
Amid chaos and complaints of red tape, relief efforts begin to reach tsunami victims.
Before the tsunami, Banda Aceh, the site of a decades-long civil war, was strictly off-limits to foreigners. Now, power is restored, markets have reopened, and a new beginning is visible.
How difficult is the relief effort? Read how a single water-purification kit makes its way from a factory in Jakarta to the victims in Sumatra.
Following federal agencies' warnings about lasers and aircraft, laser activity shows up at airports across the country, including a man accidentally aiming one into the cockpit of a passing helicopter.
Politicians take time out from disaster to moan over which countries are giving enough and the value of the U.S.'s perceived generosity, possibly prompting the U.S. to pony up.
Some inmates released by tsunami disaster reject freedom and return to their prison to help rebuild it.
Keeping terror suspects in custody for life, regardless of evidence? Bad idea.
A collection of "misused" quotation "marks."
Photos: Not quite Kentucky Fried Chicken.
As Anglos reach minority status in Texas, debate brews over the proper pronunciation of state place names.
You don't know them, but: Who do they look like?
How people solve jigsaw puzzles, alone and with others, reveals "opportunists," “hoarders," and more.
Video: Fugazi singer Ian MacKaye knows his vowels.
Today's date--1/03/05, the first three odd numbers--is a digital fluke that happens, well, only once a century.
Three beautiful essays on remembering Susan Sontag.
