Smoke Signals
Looking through a month of news can reveal a lot about what’s going on in the world. And in July 2007, everybody was smoking or quitting smoking.
Archive
A collection of 14235 issues
31 July 2007: Morning
According to Novak, the U.S. and Turkey are capturing Kurdish leaders to forestall Turkey from invading Iraq. Rice rolls through Mid-East towns on a major arms-for-allies jaunt. Iraq won the 2007 Asian Cup, and citizens ignored the threat of suicide bombers to celebrate with guns (four
30 July 2007: Afternoon
Bush and Brown now BFF. Puerto Rico appeals to U.N. for greater economic autonomy from U.S. Russia swears it never sent an astronaut up drunk, though a little cognac now and then isn't so bad. DeLoreans re-enter production with a limited run of 20 new
Book Digest: July 30, 2007
On Royalty; Sin in the Second City; Spook Country; Inside the Red Mansion; Girls of Riyadh; Unchecked and Unbalanced; More Sex Is Safer Sex; The Last Summer of the World; Christopher’s Ghosts; The Complete Stories; Paul T. Frankl and Modern American Design
30 July 2007: Morning
Inside Baghdad's Rule of Law Complex, where dangerous suspects stand trial, and judges and their families live in safety. Employees plot against their coworkers, some tried to smuggle bombs into the computer department--Iraq's Ministry of Interior is a factional hotbed. The U.S. agency overseeing
Television: How Novel
People who hate television love to talk about it, not realizing they could be spending their time improving their minds—with novelizations. The best of the oeuvre, with and without Steve Urkel.
27 July 2007: Afternoon
Suicide bombing, rioting follow government's attempt to reopen Islamabad's Red Mosque. U.S. and E.U. finally settle how to share airline passenger data; next fight, visa waiver restrictions. Venture capitalists overcome their inhibitions and dip their toes into online "adult entertainment." Accidental explosion
Video Digest: July 27, 2007
A compilation of the remarkable Ms. Alexyss K. Tylor and her persuasive arguments for genital empowerment.
27 July 2007: Morning
Mueller contradicts Gonzales, says surveillance program was discussed at Ashcroft's bedside. New Nasa scandals: drunk pilots, sabotaged wires. How Japan's population has transformed from tree to kite. Before, it was all propaganda about the nation. Now it is propaganda about religion. Stories of artists in Iraq,
26 July 2007: Afternoon
Latest Tour de France doping casualty is Michael Rasmussen, yellow jersey-bearer for the past nine days. Team Type 1 hopes to field an entire team of diabetic cyclists within five to seven years. They both saw the same thing at detonation--the bones in their arms. Former Marines remember