7 September 2006

  • New York's currently: trying to look busy
  • Bush confirms existence of secret CIA prisons, wants 14 of its high-profile terror suspects moved to Gitmo for tribunals.
  • Bush asks Congress to allow coerced evidence in new tribunals; the Pentagon officially forbids harsh interrogation tactics.
  • Given upcoming elections, nobody in Washington is itching to deny Bush his new grab for power, a move that, politically speaking, paints Bush as a pretty wily politician himself.
  • Following the resignation of eight aides and calls for him to step down, Blair to leave post in May.
  • Israel to end blockade of Lebanon, French troops will patrol to ensure no arms are delivered.
  • Despite what may be Gen Y's first official revolution, Facebook is holding firm. Mark Zuckerberg versus the masses in revolt.
  • Stephen Hawking seeks graduate assistant.
  • A look back at the Catskills house that was home to transvestites in the 1960s (though they preferred 1950s' fashions).
  • Google may bow to Chinese authorities, but not to the Brazilians.
  • Office of Special Counsel staff balk at their new dress code, which tells them to try sitting in a skirt before wearing it to work.
  • The Survivalist explains how to live through disasters: a nuclear bomb, an earthquake, a subway or skyscraper attack.
  • Forbes's "drunkest cities" report must have been written while wasted.
  • Scientists discover a gene that links cancer and life span by turning off stem cells as the body ages.
  • After decades on the rise, breast cancer rates finally level off, though whether it's a trend or a tangent is not yet clear.
  • Deadbeat felon kidney donor dad's son finally gets his kidney.
  • Russians love the creepy American ads.
  • Swiss driver caught doing 100 in a 60 cites goat-free roads as a reason to drive faster.