7 April 2004

  • New York's currently: shopping for Mr. Coffee
  • Sadr's rebel insurgency swells to six Iraq cities, with signs that Sunnis and Shiites are cooperating in the resistance.
  • While U.S. vows to 'destroy' the rebel militia, still wants to go slow with Sadr, spinning him with marketing and hoping Iraqi police arrest him.
  • The 10-year mark today of the massacre that killed over 800,000 sees many Rwandans lost faith in their country, found it in Islam.
  • Confidence in Bush erodes, political crisis mode begins with new violence in Iraq --and 30 U.S. troops and 130 Iraqis killed in Fallujah since the weekend.
  • Gymnast falls from fourth floor in apparent accident, does somersault on the way down, escapes major injury.
  • Post-handover, largest C.I.A. station in the world to remain in Baghdad.
  • New software nabs plagiarists, students and the press must find new ways to write.
  • New York's oldest fireboat --maybe the world's --still in service with a few malfunctions, but new laptop.
  • Library of Congress to receive over 4,000 Early American artifacts, including letters from Columbus and the Carta Marina.
  • Record labels use file-sharing data to boost sales, influence marketplace.
  • 'He wants it so bad that when he has his alphabet cereal in the morning, the letters spell out 'Treasury Secretary'' New York Democrats jockey for positions in Kerry's cabinet.
  • 'Woe is me, I think I am becoming a god,' and other famous last words.
  • Carnegie Deli closed for health violations.
  • Baby naming in the Arab world and how it's affected by politics, world events.
  • There are more ways to spell 'Viagra' than you'd probably think.
  • Vanilla shortages boost price, not magical powers.