5 January 2010: Morning
By The Morning News
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In November, Switzerland voted to ban new minarets; in protest, a shoe chain owner affixes one atop his warehouse.
Op: As bases close and American units leave Iraq...the Iraqi government seems to have sabotaged that achievement.
Morocco uses kissing to control crime.
Taiwanese pleasure dens cater to fetish and fantasy with jail-, manga-, and Batman-themed rooms.
Photos: In Japan, fantasy hotel-goers prefer Hello Kitty and bondage.
Though tourism drooped across the U.S., New York slid into first place, finally beating Las Vegas and Orlando.
More than smoking, quitting smoking raises your risk of diabetes--the culprit is post-cessation weight gain.
Biomedical researchers insert cells into printer cartridges, hope to one day print out organs.
The most important medical breakthroughs of the 2000s.
Russia drafts secret plans to divert asteroid that could hit Earth by 2032.
Meet the "preppers," the new wave of survivalists that's moved beyond guns and can openers.
A high school senior films a short of Kevin Fanning's "The Vanishing Act"--originally published here.
In classic literature every time somebody drinks undiluted wine they do something terrible, like murder somebody. Glenn O'Brien, at the bar.
