5 July 2006

  • New York's currently: feeling freshly squeezed by dinner
  • North Korea launches at least six missiles including the feared intercontinental that failed after 42 seconds.
  • Hamas militants fire rocket six miles into Israel; Israel destroys Palestinian Interior Ministry.
  • Baghdad's central morgue received 1,595 bodies last month.
  • Carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is rapidly making the oceans more acidic.
  • Recount begins today for Mexico's presidential election.
  • Kim Jong Il suffocates his people with "20,000 videotapes," explains the Daily News.
  • Graphic: Majority of federal billions has been put to progress in the Gulf states.
  • Senator Stevens's astonishing explanation of how the internet works.
  • Wedding planning in Baghdad, or, how to save butter cream frosting from heat and checkpoints.
  • Wife Swap in Israel confronts stereotypes, stalemates.
  • The ever-expanding American dream house means you never have to see your family again.
  • Mezzo-soprano Lorraine Hunt Lieberson dies at 52.
  • Beatles to be found on YouTube.
  • New motorcycle gangs in America include evangelists, dykes, SOBs (Semites on Bikes).
  • How the "Black Widow" trains for eating contests and what she looks like while wolfing down crabcakes.
  • Kobayashi holds on to his hot-dog-eating record.
  • The French approach to steak.
  • Chinese turn flash mobs into Tuangou, or team buying, to coordinate retail haggling.
  • Fawns; Fear of death in literature; Geologists' spouses. The most recent subjects to receive Dewey Decimal numbers.
  • Reading between the lines while scanning book blurbs--especially since there's nothing else to read this summer.
  • When publishers balk, authors go DIY on audio books, enlisting showbiz friends.
  • Man wakes up after 19 years in minimally-conscious state with rewired brain.
  • Woman wakes up after stroke with Cano-Jamaco-Slovak accent.
  • The U.S.A. tribute song you should have played at your cookout yesterday.