Headlines from March 1, 2007

Large Midwest storm system spawns tornadoes, leaving at least one dead in Missouri.
Notorious ETA prisoner returned home to Basque region after 114-day hunger strike.
U.S. finding it surprisingly hard to recruit Iraqis for Bavarian war games.
When Colorado kicks out the immigrants, it's left to the inmates to pick the crops.
"And so: richness of the material, width, ruches, flounces, bustles, ribbons--all to the good: but none of those basques attached by means of pins etc." The Wagner cross-dressing rumor that just won't die (probably because it's true).
James McManus on the moral crisis Laura Bush should be facing every day.
Author pens books for those who want to pretend to read books.
Q: Is there a scarier sounding epidemic than "gastric dengue fever"? A: "Dengue haemorrhagic fever."
San Francisco Chronicle cartoonist Robert Grayford saw a letter from the Zodiac Killer in 1969, and the rest is obsessive history.
Today's long watch: Liv Ullmann narrates this year's Best Animated Short Oscar winner, The Danish Poet.
Florida teen who has been hiccuping for five weeks just... stops.
Interview: Ren and Stimpy's creator on his new career in online ads.
The U.N. cafeteria has an eel problem, and it's not in the sushi.
Pessimism and bad moods dump slump on world markets.
Japanese whaling mothership crippled; anti-whaling nations vow to club the entire industry.
Top Walter Reed officials have heard complaints about outpatient neglect for more than three years.
Sleep deprivation has a particularly debilitating effect on decision-making processes that depend heavily on emotion.
Government doesn't exist for Cairo's sprawling, small communities until they're too large to be ignored.
How to serve boxed wine with less class; how to make lunch meat from a pig's head.
National Pig Day celebrated, e.g., with 30 days of pork.
Andrew Womack works through what smashing your guitar really means after a broken string.
Video shows French fan handcuffing herself to Hugh Grant.
Why does Stewie from The Family Guy speak in a British accent? Nerd Nite NYC is tonight at the Orchid Lounge.
A jazz musician was injured Friday after jumping from a burning motor home driven by a one-time roller skating stripper from Lodi.