30 March 2006

  • New York's currently: up with rb
  • Kidnapped journalist Jill Carroll has been freed.
  • U.N. Security Council send Iran a strongly worded letter, asks IAEA to report back in a month.
  • Experimental avian flu vaccine is 12 times the size of a standard flu vaccine. No word yet on the size of the needle.
  • Today in the Tournament of Books: The first round draws to a close as Whitney Pastorek makes the call between Kristin Allo and Ian McEwan!
  • Senators pass bill that will both regulate lobbyists and restore their constituents' absolute trust.
  • Part two of how the Department of Defense has delayed a ban on an industrial solvent, even though it's killing those exposed to it.
  • HBO filmmakers take credit for immigrant marches, even though it's on cable.
  • Afghan Christian granted asylum in Italy.
  • Crime and Katrina: Houstonians say evacuees brought it with them, N.O. police say it's surging back home.
  • For everyone who is afraid of their houses, there is a product.
  • Justice Scalia wants you to keep your Sicilian hand gestures straight.
  • Video: The three-year-old who crawled into a claw machine at Godfather's Pizza.
  • Smart kids make dumb babies.
  • Gestalt of Gary Benchley, nouveau hipster parents, and Neal Pollack.
  • The Apple Corps/Apple Computer trial begins, and a lawyer downloads "Le Freak."
  • It's the time of year when NASA releases "artist's conceptions" of hotels on the moon or grand expeditions to Mars.
  • First folio edition of Shakespeare plays will be auctioned this summer. And: Shakespeare got to get paid, son.
  • How many zeroes are in a billion? Not everyone agrees.