Headlines from February 28, 2007

Stock market creeps back up as the Fed reassures us all is well.
Castro calls Chavez, chats about China, communism, Cuba; read the full transcript here.
Police wonder whether it's "theft to order" as two Picasso paintings go missing from granddaughter's house.
PETA's leading lady didn't realize those boots were made from real sheep.
Nation's oldest mobster sent up the river with an arrest record dating back to 1932.
Norwegians overreact to public prayer with promises of pig feet and porcine squeals.
Paris Hilton now taboo for Associated Press, "barring any major, major news."
Hairy women: Skip shaving and enjoy nice cup of spearmint tea instead.
Let me tell you what food the veggies I spoke to hate more than any other: aubergine. A chef's advice on living with a non-meat eater.
In the end, the Virgin Mary nugget tray stayed with the cafeteria worker. Though the PTA did get visiting rights on weekends.
Speaking of China's internet-blocking: Reporters Without Borders' list of 13 internet enemies.
Op: Democrats bluster about Bush's Iran policy, but theirs is nothing to get excited about.
Boer-pride radio anthem excites a generation of young Afrikaners who've lived under African government.
The world may hate America, but Nigeria maintains love, admittedly on religious lines.
Celebrities rush to deny purchasing sex after being named in L.A. madam's "trick book."
It's suddenly not impossible for Beyonce to catch Hepatitis from Wolfgang Puck.
Seeing data in nature, and the reverse, and other things. See also, envelope security patterns, clever graffiti.
Remarkable interview (including rarely seen pictures) with James Brown's personal photographer, James Spencer, by Nicole Pasulka.
Forty best magazine covers of the past 40 years.
Ten minutes to name all 50 states--do you remember fourth grade?
Birnbaum and Martin Amis probably have too much fun getting together for the fifth time.
Illustrations of overlooked New Yorkers. Also, the uncollected works of J.D. Salinger.
Bruni and the Times definitely have too much fun--and too many slideshows--reviewing meat at the Penthouse Club.
Twenty-two-month-old takes the subway by himself until guardian-angel stranger scoops him up.
What to do in New York right now? Catch squash in Grand Central.