Headlines from December 14, 2005

New York's currently: needing a little something right this very minute, but it's not Christmas
Pentagon to spend $300 million placing pro-American messages in foreign media without disclosing the source.
Iranian president calls the Holocaust "a myth."
Opportunists dig for frequent flier miles in Wendy's dumpsters, and then resell them on eBay.
Finding high torture counts, U.S. pledges to inspect hundreds more of Iraqi-run jails.
Op: Multiculturalism can work if all citizens have something to prize about their society.
Hartford high school students fined $103 by cops every time they curse in school.
Poll shows Iraqis are optimistic about their futures, but want the U.S. and allied troops out quick.
Sunnis expected to vote in big numbers during tomorrow's parliamentary elections; fight for seats seen as particularly fierce.
Iraqi police seize thousands of forged ballots on their way in from Iran; tomorrow's election in Iraq is enormous for the U.S. as well.
Live air traffic control feeds, including JFK tower.
India's high-tech capital, Bangalore, aka "the town of boiled beans," considers a name change.
Philip Roth describes the ideal world: readers can be alone with their books, and anyone participating in book talk can be shot.
Questions for the chest waxer from 40-Year-Old Virgin.
"Viper" teams of uniformed cops and undercover air marshals to begin covering non-air transit systems.
Boning Park. Upper East Side. MoMA. Names of residential high-rises constructed recently in Beijing.
Dylan to DJ weekly music show on XM Radio beginning March.
Differences between American and Japanese emoticons.
Video: Rakim on Eminem.