Headlines from November 27, 2007

Apprehension, reform, hopes as anniversaries arrive for the colored revolutions in Georgia and Ukraine.
Video: Apprehension, not many hopes for rapping Singapore executives.
Hope for humanity? Housewives of Orange Country to drink their own pee.
Robert Birnbaum on the silliness of vino philosophy, and other books in the market this week.
Ban of Marquez in Iran aims spotlight on the country's regularity and recklessness of censorship.
Map of roadless America; map of the periodic table.
Cheney's "heart" beating again.
Print for the commute: "Viruses may well be the unseen creator that most likely did contribute to making us human."
Today, the Tuscan town of Prato, long the center for leather-goods production, has the second-largest population of Chinese in Europe.
No longer building roads for others, China's now the construction taskmaster in Ethiopia.
Really, an emobyte deficit? The Economist says American youths got nothing on Chinese youths when it comes to living online.
Can the Chinese art bubble keep inflating--i.e., is art being sold like cabbage?
Ethical quandaries when museums host fluffy collector shows, and collectors then sell their works for more cash.
Op: So many neurobiological breakthroughs attributed to turn-of-the-century artists are a touch overstated.
Two years later, the Fray reflates as a quarterly print journal.
Our monthly Of Recent Note takes on online merchants for November.
Seven years since the last formal Mideast peace talks, the Annapolis conference opens.
Analysis: Don't call it a summit, don't expect the U.S. to force anyone's hand, just don't anything.
U.S. officials rankle at Sharif's political aspirations--is he still as hawkish and pro-Taliban as he was pre-coup?
Despite sabotage, spiked makeup, and a raging case of hives, Puerto Rico has a new Miss Universe contestant.
Scientific American's list of 20 gadgets to covet, like a Ferrari-brand Segway and a transparent toaster.
Revealing the heavy metal pasts of a number of musicians, including Michael Bolton and Billy Joel.
Kevin Dubrow, lead singer of Quiet Riot, dies at age 52.
The Times releases its 100 Notable Books of 2007 so you can feel bad about how many you haven't read.
Details from Norman Mailer's '69 New York mayoral campaign poster, "The 51st State."
First graders in Sudan name the class teddy bear Muhammad, and their teacher winds up in prison.
"We both get something we want--where's the negative?" British ladies follow the crowd to Kenya for sex tours.
British secret agents decide to tell everyone they're not James Bond.
"We would like to remind our American tourist friends that you are almost certainly talking too loudly." Tube announcer sacked for spoof messages; her personal website has become quite popular.
Images from JCPenney, Montgomery Ward, and Sears Christmas Catalogs past.