6 September 2006
By The Morning News
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New York's currently: planning on being happy later
Iraq extends its state of emergency by a month.
Army revises war rules to provide Geneva protections for all detainees, eliminate "unlawful combatant" interrogation tactics.
Iraqis change their names so they aren't killed over their identification cards.
Fed drags its heels to care for sick Ground Zero responders, as in the 70 percent who developed breathing problems (though Bloomberg shouts, "not so!").
Deal secured for release of Israeli soldier Shalit.
Following TIME's coolest list, PC Magazine says TMN is one of the web's "Top 99 Undiscovered Websites."
New Republic suspends an editor for sock-puppeting his own blog.
The U.K.'s currently known entrances to Hell.
As soon as winter comes, there won't be a story anymore. How long can Battleboro's naked teens let it all hang out?
Upper West Side landmark P & G Cafe to close; bartender laments lost neighborhood.
The Mass-Observation movement--studying mass behavior for an anthropology of all of us--should be restarted with a blogspot account.
Op: There's no point in being afraid of science--let's just fear ourselves.
Artist Rosemary Williams gets a bag from every store in the Mall of America (see the "Consumed" interview).
Andrew Womack on the 2006 summer jam in today's Digest.
Verizon yanks rural payphones, so the Amish build their own: a photo gallery.
How to skip 1-800-number phone trees.
Mexico's high court puts the conservative in the president's chair.
Wolfgang Priklopil, Austrian kidnapper du jour, rocked the Commodore 64.
British scientists angered by experiments that "prove" phone telepathy, life after death, psychic healing.
Runner gets stuck in mud, lives on swamp water while swamp bugs live on him.
What's fall without football, and what's football without football movies?
We want to be able to supply an entire produce department with Disney Garden products. No dessert until you eat your Spongebob.