8 January 2007: Afternoon
By The Morning News
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New York smells like natural gas today, but it could just be the odor that's added to gas, not gas itself.
Austin's Congress Avenue shut down over reports of dozens of inexplicably dead birds.
Record high temperatures prompt New Yorkers to ice-skate in T-shirts, the Polar Bear club to hold a moment of silence.
Oklahoma Senator wants us to know polar bears are not endangered, and there's no reason to think they will be anytime soon.
UC Davis scientists find parallels between today's climate changes and the ones that happened way back in the Paleozoic era--i.e., the last time the Earth got really hot.
ExxonMobil is upset over the Union of Concerned Scientists' report on the company's disinformation campaign.
Remember how the government can see your library records? Well, guess who's reading your mail!
New York City teachers did more student-groping, tutee-inventing, and outright money-stealing in 2006 than ever before.
All the Scientologists want is little Astor Penswick to stay away from drugs.
In today's Book Digest, Robert Birnbaum covers some of his favorites, including Robert Stone, Jim Harrison, Howard Zinn, and Francesca Woodman.
Once you get past the ads, you will never look at watermelons in the same way.
