Headlines from July 9, 2007
- White House denies debate over White House pullback, and presumably ignores the big Times op-ed.
- Cindy Sheehan threatens to run against Pelosi if the congresswoman won't impeach Bush.
- They bought Diet Coke and turned it into bottled milk. CBS and Katie Couric, optimists. See other nuts.
- Performance artist takes 72 hours to prepare for a date.
- London theater gets flack for showing a 1953 musical about the joy and merriment of Baghdad.
- Paris's grimy Les Halles to get a canopied makeover
- Inspector Collector goes to Japan, collects English mistakes, other typos.
- Big oral history of The Simpsons; Conan on working on the show.
- Las Vegas, NV: 1 store per 3,922 residents. Statistics on where the Starbucks are.
- Photo gallery of the new seven wonders of the world; Spaniards disappointed that La Alhambra didn't make the cut.
- It's too late to win prizes for last week, but sign up now for our new newsletter contest and you'll be eligible for Friday.
- TMN's People We Like has returned.
- Pennsylvania's government, however, has shut down over budget face-off.
- And police rake in a man who robbed a New Hampshire bank Saturday dressed as a tree.
- Weekend violence and political fall-outs follow Friday's tragedy, and there seem few signs in Iraq to be hopeful about.
- Britain finally gets its Wimbledon champion--in mixed doubles.
- Sarkozy won't mass-pardon prisoners on Bastille Day, breaking with tradition.
- Belated happy birthday, President Bush.
- Today's long read: Oates on amnesiac novels.
- New York to get its own "ring of steel," or a whole bunch of cameras below Canal Street.
- Forty years later, Newark tries to account for the violence, whether it was a riot or a rebellion.
- Our impressions are no less valid. Profile of Avraham Rabby, the U.S.'s (blind) diplomat in Trinidad.
- High schoolers, rejoice: Bartenders can't tell whether or not you're underage.
- The "last generation of newspaper critics" laments their fall, having proved "their right to an opinion."
- The unofficial Frontline video podcast.
- A Russian wife is like a multi-functional home device. Informational guide to contemporary Russia.
- Guide to free bus routes in London.
- Synthetic biologists threaten to take over Mars, and then Venus, and then Earth.
- Portraits of famous scientists.
- Gallery from Philip Johnson's New Canaan Glass House.
- Pictures of men sitting together on the moon.
