9 October 2007: Morning
By The Morning News
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Always looking for ways to look tough on terrorism, Democrats are eager to extend the NSA's wiretap powers.
New ethics law could extinguish love between lawmakers and lobbyists--engagement rings are a no-no.
Britain to halve its troops in Iraq by spring--U.S. officials grouse off the record.
Iraqi authorities demand U.S. sever ties with Blackwater, pay $8 million apiece to the 17 victims' families.
...We shouted hurrah again and again at the top of our voices in admiration of General Kim Jong Il who unfolded an eternally clear sky of peace...
Buy a submarine, an orchestra, a human toe, etc., in the latest Neiman Marcus Christmas Book.
Read writers' most embarrassing moments at Tow Books, TMN's John Warner's new humor imprint.
Vandals attack gallery in Sweden, smash Serrano's sexually explicit photos with axes, crowbars.
"I'm getting married this Saturday. This doesn't trump it, but it comes close." Dressler, in Williamsburg, gets a star in NY Michelin Guide.
Also in the Guide, Colicchio loses a star, Ramsay snares two. (full list here)
"In this test we're just really knocking the snot out of ovarian cancer." Researchers look for cures in toxic pits, outer space.
Nobel Prize in physics awarded to discoverers of "giant magnetoresistance," which makes little hard disks out of big ones.
Scientists can either read baboons' minds or say, "He's thinking," and then do a funny voice.
Own a 1983 U.K. pressing of New Order's "Blue Monday?" Join the Blue Monday Owners' Club.
