Headlines from June 27, 2007
- New U.K. prime minister Gordon Brown (snidely) answers readers' questions.
- Thirteen years of Tony Blair cartoons explained.
- Catching up with P.S. 36's kindergarten class of 1995.
- Clinton criticized by Giuliani for response to 1993 World Trade Center bombing.
- U.N. predicts radical growth in urban living: half of world's population will be in cities by next year.
- Older but interesting: HIV-resistant prostitute enters 30th year of disease-free work in Kenya.
- Polling shows kids these days, a.k.a. "those damn hippies," are leaning left.
- Isn't the real question why wouldn't we clone a woolly mammoth?
- Hollywood scrambling to book stars in advance of a possible July 2008 strike.
- A beloved Hollywood icon isn't so much a bigwig as an English teacher.
- In today's feature, Kevin Fanning gives us the collapse of a world and a lovely Flickr sunset.
- Today's Digest sees Llew Hinkes review a life of audiophilia.
- A former Treasury admin on why John Updike shouldn't be allowed within 20 feet of an economic book review.
- Berlin hostel offers a taste of communism for just nine euros per night.
- Reminder: It's "finders keepers," not "finders hostage-takers."
- Republican senators hop on the Lugar express, cheeping "me too" to the nearest camera.
- Tony Blair hands in his resignation to the Queen.
- Bush: Maybe our men and women in uniform just aren't what they're cracked up to be.
- Research notes as an intelligence writer delves into the CIA's "family jewels."
- Comparing the jewels to today's lode of intelligence abuses and mistakes.
- Peter Kuper's drawings from Oaxaca; see TMN's report from the protests.
- Turkey's military chief asks for guidelines to fight Kurdish guerrillas in northern Iraq.
- Op: As long as people are chattering about Mike Bloomberg and the White House, it means they are chattering about New York City. And that’s a good thing.
- Biological evidence that humans are soulless.
- Evidence of a coke-high driver and several police officers destroying a cornfield.
- Technical explanation of how to properly pour ketchup.
- Got a new particle physics theory? The questions you need to ask yourself before you take one more step.
- Animated map of Las Vegas's viral growth.
- Meet the contemporary secessionists; history's strangest weapons.
- Roundup of iPhone reviews.
- Poem: There comes a time in one's life when one wants time, a lot of time, with inanimate things.
- Is your current iPod inanimate? Enter to win a new one (and help TMN) by telling us a little bit about yourself.