Monks disrupt China's official Tibetan tour for foreign journalists, shout pro-Tibet slogans. Increasingly, Muslim families in the U.S. choose home schooling; Jewish high schools try to wean students from gossip. I do not think that is any of your business. Student journalist lobs the first public
* Americans have realized that they have perhaps talked with one man [in Pakistan] for too long. * Eight "worst" foods in America. * Profile of CrossFit: "forging elite fitness" with daily exercise routines, not meant for "Stairmaster chumps." * German right leader charged for publishing pamphlets advocating
In Baghdad and Basra, violence takes a sharp upswing--ceasefire, Green Zone threatened. It took the Pentagon 18 months to figure out it had sent secret nuclear fuses to Taiwan instead of helicopter batteries. Doctors divided on the validity of a lung cancer prevention study after learning it was sponsored
Bulletpoints from the future in international relations, as drafted by Ret. Gen. Barry McCaffrey. Annotated page from Graham Rawle's new novel that "consists entirely of phrases clipped from sixties women's magazines, in collage form." Why don't publishers catch fake memoirs? Because it&
Petraeus asks Bush to keep troop levels steady--new withdrawals look unlikely until after the election. Sinbad contradicts Clinton's recollection of '96 Bosnia trip. New York's new tell-all governor admits using coke, marijuana in his 20s. You talk to yourself when under pressure, and
France mulls partial Olympics boycott, and the public approves. (See more.) All visitors should be aware that they have no reasonable expectation of privacy in public or private locations. Fact sheet for Americans traveling to the Olympics. Karl Rove lists the blogs he reads in the morning. (See also: blog
Four soldiers killed by a bomb on Sunday, bringing the U.S. death toll to 4,000. "It's not an unusual matter for senators to take a little extra credit." Both Obama and Clinton have a habit of embellishing their records. With some tricky maneuvering of
Why giving money makes you happy; how saying no improves your life. Keys to long life embedded in newspaper headlines. Press secretary maintains Bush and Cheney "hold themselves to a standard that requires people not to like them." California researchers create energy-efficient artificial muscle that heals itself,
Poll: New Yorkers like their new governor--didn't you hear about the last one? What have the superdelegates been doing, anyway? Reading tea leaves and playing wait and see. In San Diego, parents who object to vaccines meet an unexpected foe: measles. "This is on the same
The hotel tryst was apparently listed as "constituent services." Paterson may have billed his campaign for a rendezvous. Release of Clinton's First Lady papers back up her claims of involvement, though not always in the way she paints it today. It's been 10 years
