Headlines from April 2, 2007
- Supreme Court rules that EPA has the right, possibly the obligation, to regulate automobile emissions.
- Critics claim New York treats child prostitutes like prostitutes first and children second.
- U.K. and Argentina commemorate 25th anniversary Falklands War, vow revenge; meanwhile, Falklanders themselves seek to lure in cruise ships.
- I forgot why I got grounded, but I certainly don't like it. Small town abuses letter-to-the-editor column.
- President Bush declines throwing baseball's opening pitch for second year in row, joining the ranks of Wilson and Nixon as spoil sports.
- Why are there no female Major League umpires? And how do swimmers keep getting faster?
- The sole woman on FBI's Most Wanted List was arrested Saturday.
- New Mexico's "Tamalewood" aims to take on its California-based big brother.
- Conservative Ukrainians are not happy their Eurovision entrant is a drag queen. We, however, are quite pleased.
- The disciples were probably tripping when they saw him walking on water. Hip-hop congregation endorses scripture, krumping.
- If your evening plans so require: a free ransom note generator.
- If your dinner plans so require: mashed potato meat cake.
- Nation's biggest school bus maker beats auto industry to the plug-in hybrid punch. (School buses always win.)
- Code-named "Dark Porcelain," Google said its "Toilet Internet Service Provider" (TiSP) works with Microsoft Corp.'s new Windows Vista operating system. Not funny, Google. Not funny. (See original.)
- Iraqis say civilian death toll rose by 13 percent in March; U.S. figures say Baghdad violence is down 25 percent.
- Clinton raised $26 million in the first quarter of 2007, more than any candidate ever.
- Op: Concerning the British sailors, "a power that can be bullied without fear of retribution by a second-rate power is not much of a power at all."
- Or as Rosie O'Donnell puts it, in poetry no less: "The British did it on purpose."
- Zimbabwe's neighbors give Mugabe the go-ahead, blame Western sanctions.
- Crichton: Your robot doctor's diagnosis is no match for my hunch.
- There are 32 cameras within 200 yards of George Orwell's old apartment.
- Optimistic outlooks cited in annual report from newspaper editors, though animal attacks on reporters go unmentioned.
- Roth wins first Bellow award; DeLillo's alive and writing; Tony Blair to retread the boards.
- We have no idea what Jane Austen looked like, though publishers prefer to believe she wasn't homely.
- Harper's redesigns, puts its entire archive online for subscribers.
- Brides: write an essay and win a never-worn, never-seen wedding dress.
- Cheerleading's popular in the emergency room, and responsible for a staggering percentage of "catastrophic injuries."
- Who turned the thermostat down? A fat old man. Who turned it up? An anorexic teenybopper.
- Today's long read: Wolfowitz's new crusade to end poverty, court World Bank board members, and survive political winds.
- NYU economist: Please stop giving your money to Ghana.
- Offices of various New Yorkers.