Headlines from March 30, 2007
- Saudi Arabia assumes its relationship with the U.S. "can withstand a gentle whack or two."
- Model U.N. behaving remarkably like real U.N.
- "He is like a demigod on campus." The star of Georgetown's N.C.A.A. run has a drooling problem.
- Growing trend of "bracketology" excites math professors, scares addiction counselors.
- Something to crow about: It's the 2007 Tournament of Books Championship Match, and a winner has been crowned.
- Facebook is the new chocolate for Lenten abstention.
- The Miss America pageant--drawing less than 1/40th of the viewers it once did--is now homeless.
- Slate's guide to avoiding April Fools news stories; Wired's guide to nerdy April Fools pranks.
- Astronaut plans to compete in Boston Marathon via treadmill and bungee cords.
- The implications of granting "personhood" to apes.
- In today's Video Digest, Sarah Hepola has instructional videos for what you always wished you could do, but were afraid to ask.
- Student suspended for wearing pirate outfit in full and complete accordance with the principles of Pastafarianism.
- Live fish fingers swim close to oily death.
- Why governments won't admit organics are healthier: farm politics.
- Power of prayer to kill your loved ones now confirmed.
- Photos: Elementary school in the far Falklands is a strange affair.
- For the first time, Bush invites his party caucus to hang at the White House--a tactic we haven't seen since the day Clinton was impeached.
- Yesterday in Iraq, insurgent attacks targeting Shiites left more than 100 people dead.
- Keeping it classy: Iran airs a second U.K. sailor's confession and apology.
- In Senate hearing, former Gonazles aide testifies that the attorney general was very involved with the firings.
- France's presidential race is coming to a single point: Who is the most French of the candidates? And: French politics invade Second Life.
- Foresters understand your final wishes, and still don't want your ashes spread in their nature.
- LAPD to get brighter, smaller flashlights--that can't be used as weapons.
- Dana Spiotta, Jenny Offill, Rick Moody, and Christopher Sorrentino grace Writers' Week at Moistworks.
- Six weeks late for Valentine's Day, but here's your 6-foot dark chocolate Jesus.
- Evolution, schmevolution: Blind spiders that may die if exposed to light thrive--sort of--in caves.
- Researchers go wild for lab animals--though once therapies make the jump to humans, the results can be unpredictable.
- The concept was simple enough: Get nerds together at a bar and watch nerds give PowerPoint presentations to other nerds while drinking beer. (Also from emcee Wasowski.)
- David Lynch hates product placement; we love that the second season of Twin Peaks is finally being released on DVD.
- Video: Noel Gallagher covers "There Is a Light That Never Goes Out."