Headlines from February 8, 2007
- Former playmate Anna Nicole Smith found dead at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel.
- Former chef Anthony Bourdain beats up on the current Food Network line-up.
- Chicago study finds doctors opposed to certain types of birth control may not be giving you all your options.
- Don Juan was right: There is something about manly sweat that drives women wild.
- Serial dater Eric Schaeffer, who probably now drives fewer women wild, explains why you should appreciate his philosophy of love.
- Portraits of gun owners and their families at home.
- Considering the legalities of bombing Iran.
- Take a break from the harsher headlines with a look at Eudora Welty's beautiful Southern garden.
- Now, back to doom: How to freeze global warming, literally.
- Austin mayor, city council vow to kick pollution's ass by 2020.
- Former top dog of Austin says climate change has been a top concern since his first year in the White House.
- His experience has obviously not improved his vision. Helen Thomas on the state of the vice president.
- Years of mutual suspicion don't aid FBI in outreach to Muslims.
- Today's long read: The concept and practice of "total war" as it relates to today's battles.
- Veterans get to say what Democrats wish they could but can't.
- Recent poll shows McCain on the drop, Rudy on the gain.
- Carter intended to provoke with his new apartheid-in-Palestine book, and it's a provocation the Israel-cozy-complacent U.S. needs.
- There are books out there for which criticism is beside the point.
- In his cataloguing of the greatest albums ever, Andrew Womack tackles 1979.
- Need to put a kid through college? Sell off Grandma's master work for $600,000.
- Maira Kalman's "The Impossibility of February" (TimesSelect).
- After catching the wrong bus on a shopping trip, Thai woman returns to her family after 25 years.
- The telestereoscope, or, how to look at the world through a Viewmaster.
- Buying a Prius isn't enough to save the environment--you need to stop eating meat too.
- Maine lobstermen offended by Whole Foods's "flip-flop" on critter sales.
- Nine animals named after celebrities.