5 December 2007: Morning

How lessons learned from the WMD debacle in Iraq delayed the word that Iran wasn't working on nukes.

Of the Democratic frontrunners, whose health plan covers more people? Also: a quiz to find your candidate.

Seating chart revised to put problem senators up front.

As with the old maitres-paumiers Ross devotes one day a week to hand-sewing game balls out of cork, string, and yellow felt. Playing renaissance tennis in Paris.

A Berlin exhibit shows the work of six female Iranian photographers.

New York Review of Books co-founder Elizabeth Hardwick dies, age 91.

Because people love pages, and hate when they're missing: the history of Google Books and its tainted reputation.

AT&T says goodbye to pay phones; pay phone fans take photos around the world.

The 43-year trip of Santa and Rudolph from stop-motion puppets to Christmas decoration to restoration.

Hangovers from holiday parties projected to cost U.K. businesses £790 million.

Trade bureau approves the first American-made absinthe in almost a century, though getting the monkey on the bottle was a trick.

Video: Pot smoking, coughing in Pineapple Express, the product of airflows from Hawaii and Canada.

When Led Zeppelin reunites, they almost certainly will play Stairway to Heaven, even if it puts the audience in psychic danger.

"Every year there's some sort of swimming hole... the guys from Twiztid dubbed it 'Lake Hepatitis.'" The Insane Clown Posse's posse.