An Interview With the Dolphin
Many were surprised when the U.S. Navy announced it was using dolphins for mine-sweeping in the war with Iraq. Even more were stunned when one of the dolphins went AWOL. Submerged reporter Paul Ford gets the interview.
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8 April 2003
New York's currently: hoping good things find Roy Williams Rice jets to Moscow to repair ties with Putin after Russian diplomats and journalists were wounded while leaving Baghdad. U.K. jets to drop blue concrete. Bush and Blair's summit in Belfast hoped to reignite Good Friday
The Queen Is Dead
Love, swimming pools, road trips, and burritos: remembering the Smiths’ classic album.
7 April 2003
New York's currently: the never ending stormy 23rd person in Hong Kong to die from Sars puts global fatality count in three figures. 12 percent of African-American men, 20-34, are imprisoned. (1.6 percent of whites in same age group.) Three North Koreans defect via the
Madalyn Murray O’Hair in Hell: The Secret of the Burning Canvas
In the third chapter of Madalyn’s adventures in the underworld, the lost plays of Sophocles are discovered in an art fair, possibly to be lost again! Kevin Guilfoile continues the saga of everyone’s favorite atheist sleuth.
4 April 2003
New York's currently: all April showers and... Congress approves Bush's $79 billion bill for the war, with votes delayed on domestic security and foreign aid. Osama bin Laden's niece having a hard time starting a pop-music career. With guns being fired by soldiers,
Queue And Not You
I am a poor manager of my Netflix queue. I realized this yesterday, when I received two emails from Netflix telling me that they’d received the last two films I’d sent back, and that I should go rate them now! What I should have done, however, was check
3 April 2003
New York's currently: in a form of vertigo that does not include spinning NYC handing out free nicotine patches for the addicted. Related: Big tobacco sues California for 'vilifying' ads. U.S. boosts campaign wondering whether Saddam is alive. Congress debates foreign aid, considers punishing Russia,
Threesomes
Experts answer what they know. The Non-Expert answers anything. This week we provide the 12-step program for a satisfying threesome.
Rising Bodies
Spring has arrived, and on its tails we spot daisies, rain showers, and dead bodies floating to the surface. That is, if you’re a rather unlucky girl with an eye for corpses. New fiction by Dennis Mahoney.