7 October 2005

  • New York's currently: terrorized? Ha! Terrorized! HA. Terrorized...
  • The Morning News is off in observance of Columbus Day. We will return Tuesday, Oct. 11.
  • Two suicide attacks and two assassinations kill 17 in Baghdad, nine days before vote on new constitution.
  • New York fills the subways with cops after threat of bomb-stuffed strollers.
  • Backgrounder on the NYPD's several-day wait to inform the public about the threat.
  • White House issues list of foiled Al Qaeda plots; anonymous officials, "everyone is allowed to count in their own way."
  • Responses in Nigeria as to whether certain cell phone calls from "killer numbers" cause bleeding and death.
  • Op: As long as butcher Charles Taylor remains at large, Liberian elections can be neither free nor fair.
  • 2005 Nobel peace prize goes jointly to the IAEA and its director, Mohamed ElBaradei.
  • J.K. Rowling's rival booted from school for outing Potter.
  • Fertility clinics over-implant embryos (and heighten risks for women) amid competition for top success rates.
  • How to develop basic hacking skills.
  • Halliburton given contract to rebuild Cheney.
  • Merck says new vaccine Gardasil is 100 percent effective in blocking cervical cancer; experts call breakthrough "stunning."
  • Israel's supreme court bans using Palestinians as human shields.
  • Krauthammer on Miers: After 50 years of liberal corruption in the court, this is no time to nominate a Constitutional whelp.
  • How to write your own chick-lit, i.e., how to rake in millions.
  • Shimmy la muddy funster! Playing cards from board game about "making money, looking cool, and avoiding the Pigs."
  • Keep an eye out for your chance to win a free copy of Gary Benchley, Rock Star.
  • The science of predicting your next favorite band based on musical DNA (try it and see!).
  • Science events in New York.
  • More than 150 N.Y.C. spaces open for tours this weekend.
  • Video: Part one of "The Birth of Electronic Music."