6 November 2007: Afternoon

After overwhelming demand for Olympics tickets, China switches sales to a lottery system.

Since 2000, some 3,500 Chinese children have been named "Olympics."

Study shows children of "helicopter parents"--those who hover over their kids after they've left the roost--enjoy college more.

Fahmi al-Abrak was at home when a lagoon of human waste broke through its sand embankment and hurtled downhill, inundating this poor village of Bedouins in northern Gaza.

U.S. housing complex owners, landlords install smoking bans--it costs $1,000 less to clean out a smoker's ex-apartment.

Today's long read: When a gay man is murdered by three assailants, is it still a hate crime when one announces he's gay too?

Chefs like Wylie Dufresne have long been chemically altering haute cuisine, forging food for people who like Twinkies.

Maria Amelia is 95, a great-grandmother, and a blogger; attention bilinguals: Her blog is in Spanish.

An introduction to the "Gandhi neurons" that let you feel what others feel.

"I have a driver waiting outside," I explain, awesomely. Pasha Malla visits a Gandhi exhibit in Bombay.

Safe-for-work porn.