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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.
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