31 January 2006

  • New York's currently: getting on the bandwagon, picking up the handbook
  • E.U., U.S., U.N., and Russia will continue to aid the Palestinians as long as Hamas someday neuters itself.
  • Deal viewed as a compromise of views between black-and-white U.S. and hazy-gray Europeans.
  • Iraq's national security advisor says foreign soldiers will probably fall below 100,000 before year's end.
  • Gladwell: Study pit bulls, study terrorists.
  • You don't get a clearer case of racial profiling than a conference of Gypsy detectives.
  • Marketers avoid saying "Super Bowl"--and paying millions--with a thousand synonyms, otherwise known as "ambush marketing."
  • Free books! TMN is giving away 10 copies of Danny Gregory's new book, and all you have to do to win is be MacGyver!
  • Mall near Washington Monument picked for National Museum of African American History and Culture.
  • Playwright Wendy Wasserstein dies at 55, aka Miss Colitis.
  • Sixty countries recommit themselves to helping Afghanistan as U.S. tries to shrug off some responsibility.
  • States consider banning protests at funerals after "God hates gays" church goes a bit too far.
  • Apparently God hates the Swedish royal family too.
  • Internet porn: a "tidal wave" that has swept over America's children.
  • Homeless die at twice the rate of other New Yorkers, with AIDS and substance abuse claiming a third.
  • Loose shoelace destroys priceless vases.
  • Op: If there's anyplace where the U.S. and Iran can find common interest, it's in Iraq.
  • Given modern roof, experts puzzled by Polish hall collapse.
  • Journalists for some reason love Tab.
  • Podcast: Nature.
  • How to make your own belly bombs.