Headlines from April 9, 2007
- Justice firing scandal reveals disproportionate influence of Pat Robertson's Regent University grads.
- Elizalde's narcocorrido, or drug trafficker's ballad, sparked what is believed to be an unprecedented cyberspace drug war. Mexican gangs take their fights, musical and non-, to YouTube.
- Businesses need to learn to take online beatings; bloggers need to learn to stop dishing them out.
- Particle accelerator worth $4 billion explodes when physicists get basic calculations wrong.Why the government, airlines, and phone companies want to keep in-flight cell phone use banned. And we hope you don't convince them otherwise.
- Program brings DUI trials to school cafetoriums, where students seem kind of impressed.
- The
youngest Ghandi, a "Kennedy in a kurta," makes his latest
political debut.
- Zero-rupee note created to help Indians politely and discreetly say no to bribes.
- B.C. and Wizard of Id creator Johnny Hart dies. (His last puzzling Easter comic.)
- In today's gallery, Olga Chernysheva shows us the faces on duty in Moscow's subway.
- Federal contractors create Peep dioramas to their hearts' content.
- The formula is: N = C + {fb (cm) . fb (tc)} + fb (Ts) + fc . ta. Your perfect bacon sandwich, right there.
- Freed Iranian diplomat says he was tortured by the CIA; U.S. says blame the Iranian propaganda machine.
- Critics say Iran wins when British sailors are allowed to sell their stories to the media.
- Gingrich: Gonzales should resign; Schumer: Gingrich is my friend.
- White House catches flack all because Karl Rove couldn't tell his laptops apart.
- Hundreds of thousands of Iraq's Shiites hear Sadr's appeal, protest U.S.-led troops.
- Seventy-eight percent of Iraqis oppose the U.S. presence, 51 percent approve of attacks on U.S. troops--but only 35 percent want immediate withdrawal.
- The next real-life horror movie: Climate refugees.
- Today's long read: The multitude of global problems with the new biofuels.
- As you witnessed in Casino Royale, the fire-escape-hopping sport of parkour.
- China's Supergirl, its version of American Idol, to be replaced by Happy Boy Voices.
- Mp3s of Jeffrey Sachs's Reith Lectures; other recent interesting podcasts.
- Video: Wonderful story as America's best classical musician earns $40 busking.
- Reader letters requesting that Lois Lane receive a spanking. See also, the best in unintentionally funny comic book panels.
- Sol LeWitt dies at 78; cue jokes about leaving behind instructions for his funeral.
- The facts of the Phil Spector murder trial you're not following.
- What to do with your leftover Easter eggs; yes, those cream eggs are shrinking; how to make your own giant Cadbury egg.