7 July 2004

  • New York's currently: one good-looking ticket
  • Defense Department official illegally enters Iraq--posing as a Halliburton employee--finds problems, recommends friends' companies for the solutions.
  • Chilling new records: New report shows three million died of AIDS last year and almost five million became infected with HIV.
  • Family of captive Marine say they've received sign he's been released, while a militant group threatens terrorist Zarqawi if he doesn't leave Iraq.
  • The story behind Kerry's VP-picking secrecy. And: Daily News razzes Post on its Gephardt headline foul-up.
  • Court charges six Yemenis in bombing of U.S.S. Cole.
  • Bowing under the financial weight of sex abuse lawsuits, Portland, Ore., archdiocese becomes first to declare bankruptcy.
  • Though we still believe 35 is just about right, Europe looks into a longer workweek to boost its economy.
  • Unlike its forebears, today's food television stokes appetites not with culinary excellence, but with the lowest common denominator.
  • To fight uprising, Iraq prime minister given martial powers to impose curfews, ban sedition, and detain anyone.
  • Like a muddier Woodstock, but without the sex and drugs: the Cornerstone Christian rock festival.
  • Midland, in the fifties, was an affluent village populated by the oil-prospecting sons of Northeastern businessmen. Taking aim at the Everyman act of the Bush family.
  • There's nothing crunk about it: Water may work just as well as cough syrup at relieving a cough.
  • Though Morrissey was never known for his dancing, the Manchester airport may be named after him.
  • Photos of drunk people have never been so well organized.
  • When movies flop, MGM profits: Just look at Roadhouse.