Headlines from October 16, 2006

Composer Harry Partch created a vast array of specially tuned instruments--you can play virtual versions of some of them here.
New Yorkers will do anything short of burning down their apartments (or their landlords' apartments) to get rid of bedbugs.
If finding a purpose is the aim of life coaching, for an increasingly large number of people, going to see a life coach ends with the decision to become a life coach.
With an ice skating rink in one set and more than 70 roles across its three parts, Tom Stoppard's new play is one of Broadway's most complex productions, ever.
Maybe the internet really can make you smarter (or fake it even better): podcasts from This American Life, videos of Berkeley lectures.
To do tomorrow: See New York Hack Melissa Plaut at Here Is New York: Then and Now.
It's bad enough when a company lays off employees; it's worse when they take everybody on a cruise only a week before.
Whether single or just living together, more Americans are choosing "living in sin" over marriage, and don't you just know the New York Times loves it.
After paying over a million dollars in ransoms, it was when his son and his ex-wife attempted a fourth fake kidnapping that his suspicions were raised.
Bill Murray attends Scottish students' house party; being invited by "a Norwegian blonde" probably didn't hurt, either.
Because you're not even going to vote, you should make fake political signs, post them in your town, and send us photos.
Because you might as well vote, here's how, in New York.
No fatalities reported, much power lost in massive earthquake that hit Hawaii's Kona Coast.
Hamas says cease-fire with Israel is over following raids in which 22 Palestinians were killed.
Israeli police say President Moshe Katsav should face charges of rape and sexual assault.
Al Qaeda, Sunni insurgents declare new Islamic republic in central and western Iraq.
One option the U.S. could consider to stop the fighting in Iraq: Partner with Iran and Syria.
Reuters to open news agency in Second Life.
CBGB plays its final act.
It housed the most influential cluster of bands ever to grow up--or to implicitly reject the concept of growing up--under one roof. Richard Hell on being young forever at CBGB.
Today in Digest: Robert Birnbaum on literary feuds and the reviews that spawn them.
What American art would be like without Picasso; what Earth would be like with no people.
John Kerry may be the only person who's excited about his new bid for the presidency.
Why Americans don't vote anymore: Nobody's offering them a beer, or a better job, if they do.
"Lanky" Tony Snow sluts it up for $175 a plate.
Disneyland employees reprimanded for simulated, costumed sex with either Chip or Dale.
Reasons to leave the house dwindling: video from the New Yorker Festival.
Improv Everywhere makes the cut on Millionaire.
How do you explain "frat" movies to non-Americans?
My career at CBGB began--and ended--in one night in late 1993.