This summer, waterfall art installations will open on the shores in New York City. (Artist renderings here) A starfish threatens Indonesia's reefs; beetles may kill most of Colorado's lodgepole pines. Colorado, Minnesota towns battle over which gets to be the official "Ice Box of the
Was the "Filipino Monkey," professional radio troll, behind the recent U.S.-Iran naval encounter? Racist America's new term for a black person: Canadian. Hip-hop stars implicated in the steroids debacle; hacker controls city train network with remote control. New research says it may be
U.S. plans to send 3,200 additional Marines to Afghanistan, in hopes of shaming NATO allies into matching troops. Army seeks "professional celebrity rock music band"; bureaucracy gets to build a tour rider. From William Henry Harrison's log cabin medal to the George W. Bush
No matter our sentimental ideas about our cell phones, we rarely consider where they go when they die. In today's TMN Gallery, portraits of people who speak to the dead. Small-town mayors speak of their ideas of Bloomberg. Loquacity equals good leadership--and other myths about eloquence
U.S. credits former Sunni insurgents for relieving violence in Iraq, fears what may happen if they're not accepted by Shiite leaders. "I asked my mother, who is 80, whether she'd ever seen snow in Iraq before, and her answer was no." On Friday,
News trickles out that Kyrgyzstan is holding a trainload of enriched uranium headed for Iran Why members of Kyrgyzstan's government won't be adding their two cents anytime soon. 1974 CIA document says it's known for a while that Israel has nukes. A babyboomer’s
"Why don't you think about what to do about traffic congestion in Bay Ridge?" Pundits, public tire of Bloomberg's presidential limbo. White House correspondent David Gregory vs. presidential candidate Barack Obama: the dance-off. Anne Rice on Hillary Clinton: "As we say in
The polls that said Obama would cruise through New Hampshire? Nobody knows anything. But some are willing to guess: five theories on why Hillary won New Hampshire; see also, why presidential polls are wrong, and the race/class card. Kerry to endorse Obama. Karl Rove offers few insights on why
"This was decidedly uncool and very, very dangerous." Blackwater is back into the pot after revelations that agents gassed a rioting crowd in Baghdad in 2005. In Mexico, law enforcement supervisors are translating the classics into police radio codes for poorly educated cops. Radar detectors are more potent
Bush takes eight-day Middle East roadtrip, stopping first in Israel, then on to Kuwait, Bahrain, the UAE, Saudi Arabia, and Egypt. Candidates to replace Philippe de Montebello at the Met. Evidence that absurdly bad English in China can be blamed on faulty translation software. Op: Why oil prices really
