Except for brief moments of duress, I haven't touched a keyboard for years. No fingers were tortured in producing these words--or the last half a million words of my published fiction. Novelist Richard Powers talks to his computer. Artist Carson Ellis breaks down and gets a blog;
New York smells like natural gas today, but it could just be the odor that's added to gas, not gas itself. Austin's Congress Avenue shut down over reports of dozens of inexplicably dead birds. Record high temperatures prompt New Yorkers to ice-skate in T-shirts,
Iraqi Health Ministry reports 5,640 civilian and police offer deaths in the first half of last year--and 17,310 deaths in the last half. Wesley Clark: There have never been enough troops in Iraq--but now it's time for diplomacy, not military surging. U.S. commander
Do hawks win arguments because we're hardwired to prefer tough guys? Notwithstanding the constitutional right to remain silent, many people arrested talk freely. "Anecdotal research demonstrates curiosity is on the rise." New for 2007: anal intercourse. At a wireless hot spot, your data is open and
Folate levels at record low; Associated Press ensures panic ensues. He heard voices outside his hospital room plotting against him. Justice Rehnquist, formerly hopped up on goof balls. Brilliant PR strategists in Libya surely behind new Saddam statue. Even Lindsay Lohan's appendix doesn't like her. Compelling,
Pelosi becomes America's first female speaker of the house, passes "the broadest ethics and lobbying revision since the Watergate era." Shift in Congress has members worried, what will become of Santorum's candy desk? U.S. and Iraqi troops launched a major, slow-moving offensive
Hefty profile of John McCain, the "palpably, pungently human" presidential hopeful. Bush wet nurse and former Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers to leave the White House. The guardians of Britain's historic Tower of London are enlisting girl power for the first time in their 522-year
Continuing weather madness: Golfers aren't hibernating either, scientists say we're experiencing record heat. Mike Tyson told cops he smokes cocaine that he packs into Marlboro cigarettes, is unable to roll his own joints, and gets "a little crazy" without the use of the antidepressant
Dems to take control of Congress today, vow ethics reform before lunch. Negroponte to step down as director of national intelligence, will move to State Dept. to fill a role so "crucial" that it's been vacant for months. Bush, Obama are newspaper columnists for a day,
Ruling in favor of pork-soup shelter prompts Paris mayor to wrinkle nose, "stinks of xenophobia," he says. The diesel industry is really proud of its "superior real-world fuel efficiency", and may start growing it on trees. Thanks, global warming, for making heat so unnecessary
