Headlines from October 12, 2006

Illustrated plans for submarines, from Alexander the Great to the present day.
Gambian bumsters take tourist heckling to newly enjoyable levels.
Bowers handed the money to a security guard standing in the lobby and told him it was his day to be a hero. Unemployed man robs bank to get jail time.
The anatomy of Cheez Wiz.
Jose Padilla claims that while in Navy custody interrogators dosed him with a PCP-LSD cocktail.
Dutch scientists say that whenever the Earth changes orbit, some species of mammals die out.
Thumbelina survives on a cup of grain and handful of hay, served twice a day. Breeder-owners love the world's smallest horse, but not her genes.
Find your dead celebrity soulmate.
Archeologists plan to test Homer's geography--and perhaps even learn where Odysseus was said to have roamed.
Hotel St. George Press announces new readings for Fall.
Profile of a "tracker," a campaign videographer who follows the other candidate in hopes of catching a gaffe.
Want to make your house smell like Elton John's? Light this rock.
How to tell the U.S. didn't clean up too well after accidental bombing of Spain: glow-in-the-dark snails.
In Digest, Llewellyn Hinkes considers the legacy of CBGBs, but just for a little while.
Single-engine plane crashes on Upper East Side, killing Yankee pitcher Cory Lidle and his flight instructor.
Everywhere the reaction was the same: sadness mixed with an equally large dose of disbelief that anything so bizarre could actually happen.
Op: There wasn't an "axis of evil" before, but there sure is one now.
Bush: This is all Clinton's fault.
North Korea says if the U.S. continues its "hostile attitude," it will hold more nuclear tests, which, when you think about it, would deplete their nuclear material, so, um...
More than anything, North Korea should fear its own collapse--which would suit China just fine.
Bush talks suits with reporters, which is better than talking news right now.
British court shifts libel law to favor journalists; French parliament rules that denying Armenian genocide is now a crime.
Nobody wants to take credit for the statistic that claims a single female cat and her offspring can produce 420,000 cats in just over seven years.
Gunmen, arriving in police vehicles, attack Baghdad TV station aimed mainly at Sunni audience.
Golddiggers: Get a good look at this grad student, who got rich off PayPal--before he became the third founder of YouTube.
Scott Blauvelt is an American with a disability. And that is why Scott Blauvelt walks around naked at work.
Superbus comes when you text and gives you your own door.
Trent Lott legislates against insurance companies, and many are wondering if he'll stop once he gets reimbursed for the house he lost in Katrina.
R.J. Reynolds sees how candy-flavored cigarettes just might appeal to children, agrees to cease their production.
Former ATF head accused of forcing employees to cook lunch, help with homework, and build a bathroom.
As messages spread from pager to pager overnight, the crowd grew from dozens to hundreds of students early yesterday. Deaf university shuts down amid intrigue.