30 July 2002

New York's currently: lavulating

Incredible story: Crusading editor of Zeta survives in Tijuana with 13 bodyguards.

Bush creates 'Office of Global Communications' to act as White House's foreign PR firm.

U.N. investigating U.S. airstrikes that killed a wedding party.

Death by 'Caught in or between objects:' 1 in 29,860. The Odds of Dying.

Special Newsday report on $30M Long Island breast cancer study that's lasted 10 years with little in results.

Brian Root wins Hand on a Hard Body contest for pale-green Beetle, has actually made career of hands-on contests. Related: Old Salon interview with S.R. Bindler, director of the incredible documentary Hands on a Hard Body.

Bloomberg picks Joel Klein--Bertelsmann chief and lawyer who led the antitrust prosecution of Microsoft--to head New York City's schools.

I think as long as you don't look like a hootchy mama, you should be able to wear whatever. Dress code not taken well. [via os]

Carnegie deli killers sentenced to life.

Howard Kurtz on the bizarre amount of press covering America's maybe-mission to topple Saddam.

Manual gets notice; Rosecrans proves too long to spell; R. preferred (see second story down).

Nice site for Rebecca Taylor.

Contemporary art matters: New Artkrush project: M/E/A/N/I/N/G. Related: Nice work by artist Rachel Stone at Neumu.

'Auroville belongs to nobody in particular. Auroville belongs to humanity as a whole.' Enlightenment, however, is the precondition of citizenship: 'To live in Auroville, one must be a willing servitor of the Divine Consciousness.' India, home to planned communities.