Headlines from October 2, 2007

U.N. envoy meets once with military head of Burmese junta, twice with opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi.
In other Asian encounters, North and South Korean leaders meet in Pyongyang for summit.
Pakistan drops corruption charges against former PM Bhutto; is she ready to join Musharraf's team?
In the seventh installment of his Kashmir travel journal, Pasha Malla returns to Delhi, family history in hand.
Female athletes more likely than male athletes to sustain concussions--though equally likely to ignore them.
Indian-Americans look to Jewish community for PR guidance.
Op: Giuliani taking mid-speech calls from his wife is either a political stunt or a political stunt.
Yale Law School loses key case that would ban military recruiters from attending career fair.
Anne Frank's chestnut tree wins reprieve from Amsterdam officials.
Today's long read: Redirected aggression--the passing of pain from one victim to another--is not merely the stuff of literature and drama.
"You never know when you're going to meet a rogue agent." Be nice to your airline worker, they have more power than you think.
Spice Girls concert tickets went on sale in London, and sold out in 38 seconds. That's seconds.
Bart Simpson: "The Wall Street Journal Is Better Than Ever."
White House announces nationwide cocaine shortage.
Hersh on the administration's plans for Iran, and the world's shared anxiety about what Bush can do.
Hersh on Bush: "The president has accepted ethnic cleansing, whether he's talking about it or not."
New group Freedom's Watch, the neoconservative's MoveOn, has big plans to push for attacking Iran.
Op: One of the converted lays out the past, present, and future of neoconservatism.
New country-music hit has a message for terrorists: You can't hurt America by blowing up New York City.
Asia's almost-forgotten crisis: How Burma went from embarrassing disaster to serious security threat.
Thirty percent of Japanese don't have flush toilets connected to sewage.
Threats when food prices soar, U.S. aid buys less, and small farmers have little chance of succeeding.
Today's long read: How biofuels could starve the poor.
America's most popular diets rated for nutrition and heart health effects; Atkin's loses.
Farmers like me can complain about being misunderstood and ignored--or we can write the news ourselves. You have tuned in to my broadcast. Soil economics, produce news in the Ladybug Letter.
The economics of faking orgasm; economics and penalty kicks; on the lack of economics about strikes; former vice-chair of the Fed can't count his fingers.
Now that the Times archives are open, old articles about old faces: Updike, silicon valley, white collar crime, and hedge funds.
Some people see faces everywhere.