Headlines from October 9, 2007

Personnel changes in the Chinese military put Taiwan experts at the top--Taiwan war-making experts, that is.
Spain proposes "Historic Memory Law," which will honor Civil War victims on both sides of the conflict.
Conflict in Iberia, however, still ongoing as car bomb explodes in Basque town of Bilbao.
Che Guevara's face might be everywhere, but his relatives aren't down with the bikini.
Whatever happened to 2001's hot sites? Or their creators? What about 2001's hot headlines?
Thank you, overachievers, for once more upping the college admissions ante.
Australia using YouTube to target Japanese whaling interests. (Delve into the Australian-Japanese video feud here.)
Scientists close to discovering cure for facial cancer rapidly infecting the world's--OK, Tasmania's--tasmanian devil population.
Scientists figure out why amber makes for such a good insect coffin, and the report is "grim as an Edward Gorey story."
This Wednesday's gift? "It's classified." Army contractors prove to be valuable source of convention swag.
Children's books, animal characters named Chico, the Pope, and Sandra Day O'Connor.
In today's feature, Giles Turnbull discovers the origin of his masseuse's manipulations.
New Yorkers surprisingly unhappy when going through turnstiles.
What's in your toothpaste? Science.
Always looking for ways to look tough on terrorism, Democrats are eager to extend the NSA's wiretap powers.
New ethics law could extinguish love between lawmakers and lobbyists--engagement rings are a no-no.
Britain to halve its troops in Iraq by spring--U.S. officials grouse off the record.
Iraqi authorities demand U.S. sever ties with Blackwater, pay $8 million apiece to the 17 victims' families.
...We shouted hurrah again and again at the top of our voices in admiration of General Kim Jong Il who unfolded an eternally clear sky of peace...
Buy a submarine, an orchestra, a human toe, etc., in the latest Neiman Marcus Christmas Book.
Read writers' most embarrassing moments at Tow Books, TMN's John Warner's new humor imprint.
Vandals attack gallery in Sweden, smash Serrano's sexually explicit photos with axes, crowbars.
"I'm getting married this Saturday. This doesn't trump it, but it comes close." Dressler, in Williamsburg, gets a star in NY Michelin Guide.
Also in the Guide, Colicchio loses a star, Ramsay snares two. (full list here)
"In this test we're just really knocking the snot out of ovarian cancer." Researchers look for cures in toxic pits, outer space.
Nobel Prize in physics awarded to discoverers of "giant magnetoresistance," which makes little hard disks out of big ones.
Scientists can either read baboons' minds or say, "He's thinking," and then do a funny voice.
Own a 1983 U.K. pressing of New Order's "Blue Monday?" Join the Blue Monday Owners' Club.