Headlines from September 27, 2007

Verizon briefly refuses to let abortion rights group text customers, hopes we'll never speak of it again.
Is Tania Head's Sept. 11 survival story too good to be true?
Nike said it is the first time it has designed a shoe for a specific race or ethnicity. Building sneakers for the Native American foot.
The upside of global warming: school boats.
Prominent scientists complain after being interviewed for one film and ending up in another. (Ben Stein-heavy trailer here.)
Op: In the age of perfect recall, we need to teach ourselves to forget.
$600,000 thrown at the problem after Google Earth spots swastika-shaped naval barracks in California.
Slate slideshows up everything the erudite person needs to know about the female buttocks.
Six Little Rock nuns excommunicated for heresy; one 82-year-old Sister says, "We're doing what we're asked to do."
A. J. Jacobs on spending a year following every rule in the Good Book.
In today's feature, Nicole Pasulka brings you the best of September's back-to-school hijinks.
How to decode your credit card number, with bonus javascript.
Video: A hand-made wall animation that rocks our socks.
Up to eight people killed in Myanmar, many more beaten and arrested as security forces raid monasteries.
Op: If China won't change its policies toward Burma on its own, it must be pressured to do so.
Dinner with Ahmadinejad: The movie 300 was a "complete distortion of Iranian history;" Iran, he says, has never invaded anyone in its history.
TMN's Liz Entman to Columbia U. president: You're rude, pal.
New York has the highest carriage-horse accident rate in the country. Call to ban Central Park's horse-drawn carriages gains traction.
Debating violence and misogyny in rap lyrics in front of Congress, Master P apologizes to women; David Banner says, "I'm like Stephen King: horror music is what I do."
Of vice and men: Tubby, smoking Hitchens begins getting facials.
Explaining the science behind why people don't evolve in one lifetime: because it could kill us.
Where the presidential candidates stand on climate change.
Head of the Catholic Church in Mozambique says some European-made condoms are deliberately infected with HIV.
Team of male psychologists finds geniuses are mostly men, but there are far more stupid men than women.
Billboard ads with a naked anorexic woman arrive just in time for Milan's fashion week.
There is such a thing as poverty in human relations. Profiles of Japan's homeless internet-cafe dwellers.
Expect 190 million hands worldwide to be holding Wi-Fi/cellular phones by 2011.
Scam reporter gets duped by deluxe-headphones con.
Complicated math to keep track of your eating-out by adding extra cents to your credit card bill.