Headlines from January 9, 2006

New York's currently: feeling weird with somebody else's words in its mouth
U.S. copter crash in Iraq kills 12.
Growing rapidly, diabetes claims 800,000 New Yorkers, now considered an epidemic.
Cheney retaining fluids.
Turkey considers smoking ban in a country where smokers include 60 percent of men, 20 percent of women, and 11.7 percent of schoolchildren.
Ten informed takes on Sharon, e.g., tragic O.J. Simpson figure, or revered like Thomas Jefferson.
Bubbling among evangelical Christians, "philo-Semitism," or "Love those Jews!," a concept Jews are wary about.
Evangelicals just wish Pat Robertson would shut up.
Guantánamo Bay hunger strikers are force-fed through tubes, says camp's chief doctor.
Two Iron Age bog bodies, beheaded and dismembered, tastefully remembered.
Taping two pennies to your envelopes is discouraged.
Cinematic fantasies of disaster feel more flippant than ever. Anthony Lane on the year in film.
Walking tour of scuzzy downtown Manhattan, circa 1974-84.
New David Byrne radio stream.
Brownstones (listed by Corcoran) in Park Slope now average $3.35 million.
New Yorkers: in case you missed "Mulchfest," you can recycle your Christmas tree until Saturday.
Father of LSD, which he calls his "problem child," worries we're losing touch with nature.
76-year-old performance artist arrested after attacking Duchamp's "Fountain."
Funniest food videos of the past year, and the 200 books that sold best.
Dedicated to DFW, how to kill a lobster.
The public JT Leroy officially unmasked, though the part of "writer" is still up for grabs.
Video: French maids explain how to video podcast.