Obama announces presidential exploratory committee--does this mean he now has to quit smoking? Study shows pet owners drink less alcohol, but smoke more cigarettes than the petless. New York Times surmises that more women than ever are living spouseless--Dawn Eden says casual sex with rock stars is the
U.N. raises 2006 Iraq death toll threefold--to more than 34,000 civilians. California citrus producers say as much as 70 percent of its orange crops could have been destroyed by winter blast. U.S. meets Iranian influence in Iraq with barbs, while Iraq welcomes it, diplomatically. Five years
Merci pour l'ajouter: MySpace expands to the continent, beginning with France. The Pirate Bay, the infamous Swedish file-sharing site, seeks sovereignty. [My father] had a workbench out in his garage where, when I was about five or six, he sectioned off a little piece of it and
The 1982 crash of Air Florida flight 90 forever changed the role of the co-pilot--and drastically improved commercial airline safety. Do balloons work the same one mile up? The Democratic National Convention heads to Denver for 2008. Gather.com readers will vote which author will have their manuscript
In apparent terror attack, a rocket explodes inside the U.S. embassy in Athens. U.S. officials confirm no top terror figures were killed in Somalia raids. Negroponte: Al Qaeda is rebuilding in Pakistan. It acknowledged failure, though it dodged accountability for that failure by the standard device of assuming
Artists to console Canadians by memorializing the 26 victims of a notorious serial killer. It's about time for Muslims to laugh at themselves. Little Mosque on the Prairie debuts in Canada. Cheap nosejobs should probably be avoided in Cairo. Eleven-thousand Indian constables soon to be trained by
University of Michigan drops affirmative action in the middle of the admissions process for next year's freshmen. The road to college football starts at the U.S. Army National Combine. D.C. construction worker fell four stories to his death. Authorities unclear on why he was naked. When
Bush to boost troops in Iraq by 20,000 for a fight that's not "open-ended," yet not a sign of "stepping back." Bush on Iraq is either resolute or delusional, but he only has one new idea. One small note: Bush vows to
Somebody is bugging American defense contractors' pocket change, but we're not pointing fingers, Canada. Brilliant: The Feltron 2006 Annual Report. Ten percent of the population experiences heart palpitations when the creator of Lost talks about the new Star Trek movie he's filming. The vaginal photoplethysmograph
How we think about an increase in the minimum wage depends on whether we're the ones paying it or the ones being paid--and the answers aren't so obvious. "The East Coast... did not warm nearly as much as rest of globe over the 20th
