8 April 2005 By The Morning News — 08 Apr 2005 New York's currently: awfully fond of you Chinese Navy buildup worries Pentagon. As Little Orphan Annie lands in a North Korean jail, other funnies get wardrobe and dialogue updates to stay fresh. Pope's remains captured by thousands of cell-phone cameras (unembalmed, that is). Legislators battle with pharmacists who refuse to fill prescriptions for the morning-after pill. TMN's Choire Sicha helps launch tabloid news service Sploid. Multitasking: Keeping your children stupid. Gallery of transportation futuristics. Many reasons for democracy to have a very hard time flourishing in Arab states. Coming up: Bob Powers and Todd Levin host Pen Pals to share funny correspondence with friends. Study shows poetry is better for the brain than prose. Google Maps satellite function used to track people wearing TMN t-shirts.) Marburg virus kills 173 in Angola. Places in which one is insane: the membrane. Pop songs in outline form. Pictures of shaken faces. Korean actors may excite Japanese women, but Japanese textbooks that whitewash war crimes set no hearts fluttering. Banknotes of the world.
