7 April 2003 By The Morning News — 07 Apr 2003 New York's currently: the never ending stormy 23rd person in Hong Kong to die from Sars puts global fatality count in three figures. 12 percent of African-American men, 20-34, are imprisoned. (1.6 percent of whites in same age group.) Three North Koreans defect via the East Sea after not finding three tons of honey for Kim Jong-il's birthday. Dinosaurs ate each other. Lear jet-owning 'Girls Gone Wild' CEO busted for taping, propositioning underage girls in a motel. Colombian novelists forgo magic for hard-boiled realism. Bronx teenagers busted for videotaping themselves menacing a subway rider, saying, 'You faggots got to burn.' Santa Cruz libraries show their opposition to the Patriot Act with a paper shredder. Does your X hurt? Soldiers using the Phraselator, one-way phrasebook that emits Arabic. Interview with Tate Kuerbis, designer of the Air Jordan XVIII. The Julie/Julia project: Cooking all 524 recipes in Mastering the Art of French Cuisine. Belgium to legalize small amounts of marijuana for anyone over 18. The online dictionary of playground slang. Girls: Perfect bag for Spring, the Kiss Me tote. NYPD undercover officers study American Idol and Prom magazine to snag online predators. Archive of TIME magazine covers.
