Hair Growth
Experts answer what they know. The Non-Expert answers anything. This week we explain how different hairs on the body grow at different speeds, i.e., get ahead of one another, all puns intended.
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The Malarkies, 10,000 Back Doors
‘The packaging of each CD is unique. Hand-printed with linoleum block lettering, each step of the printing process took several days. The last step of the assembly was affixing a 4 1/2” square of red felt inside each cover.’ Source: press release for The Malarkies’ new album, 10,
Jeremy Bitz Has an Afternoon of Gross Misfortune
Some people are born lucky, others attract misfortune. Unfortunately for Jeremy Bitz, he’s the prince of the latter camp. Joshua Allen and Rosecrans Baldwin report on how a few hours can ruin a young man’s day.
16 January 2003
New York's currently: refusing certain temptations Bush pressuring weapons inspector Blix to skip March 27 report on Iraq, focus instead on January 27 so U.S. can declare war shortly after. Related: If Blix's report finds no weapons in Iraq, U.S. to rely on omissions
Madalyn Murray O’Hair in Hell
Hell is full of mystery and chain hardware stores. Who would’ve known? Kevin Guilfoile, that’s who, as he follows Madalyn, amateur detective, in the first chapter of her adventures in the underworld.
15 January 2003
New York's currently: growing the way things grow in fast movies Bush to declare opposition to Michigan's affirmative action policies, currently at stake in the Supreme Court. New York experiencing a bank-robbery renaissance, say police. John Le Carré: America has entered one of its periods
14 January 2003
New York's currently: watching people move out of the city Nine states and the District of Columbia building a joint non-profit to manage their prescription plans to avoid pressure from the drug makers. Malawians attack senior politician, accusing him of harboring vampires. Blair insists the U.N.
Part IV, Accessories
Forget about your butt; consider your jewelry. (You can change it a hell of a lot faster.) A look at the history of accessories.
Introducing Tobias Seamon
There’s a report in the Times today that this winter may be the dreariest in New York’s history, which seems a slightly unscientific approach to measuring weather, but feels entirely accurate: it’s piss outside. Very cold piss. Friends from the great white North (i.e., Maine) who
13 January 2003
New York's currently: almost over its head-cold U.S. looks for oil-fix from corrupt governments in West Africa. Steve Case, co-founder of America Online, gives up his chairman title. New York's winter of 2002–3 may go down in the gloom-books as