Headlines from August 1, 2007
- Rescuers search for dead after Minneapolis bridge collapses during rush hour.
- Senate may end era of secret chokeholds, Mae West holds, rotating holds, and other legislative wrestling moves.
- Robert Mugabe has finally achieved complete economic control, ending Zimbabwe's economy.
- Africa's oil-poor countries may want to count their blessings--at least agriculture is sustainable.
- Doctor recounts torture after eight years in Libya jail during which he "only tried to forget."
- Can a mosque be sexy?
- Today's long read: History students may not know much, but perhaps that's because the professors are culture-ignorant clones.
- Smart people either less interested or less intelligent when it comes to having sex, and the geeks have something to say about it.
- New Ohio abortion legislation put simply: no father, no abortion.
- Op: To fix the health-care system, perhaps it's time we paid our doctors less, or at least put them on a salary.
- One hopes Laura Albert saved some of the fraud money, now that "JT LeRoy" must pay $350,000 in legal fees.
- Mr. Antonioni and Mr. Bergman, for their parts, were the supreme modernists of world cinema.
- What happens at four-star restaurants when rich patrons drink too much and want to strip; map of all-you-can-eat restaurants in Paris.
- Tacoma's super criminals thwarted by four-star music. Also: Two men traveling around the world in tuxedos.
- "Amazing things" you yourself can do as an "amateur traffic dynamicist."
- More than 65 killed in Baghdad bomb attacks today, as largest Sunni bloc walks away from coalition cabinet.
- Rumsfeld returns to Capitol Hill for first time since leaving office in order to testify in Pat Tillman cover-up inquiry.
- Positing what's next for Citizen Murdoch: A financial news network? The world?
- "He wasn't a monster, he wasn't an Übermensch, he stood opposite me like a perfectly normal gentleman." An interview with 90-year-old Rochus Misch, Hitler's former bodyguard and Berlin tourist attraction
- An update on Chelsea Clinton, potential first daughter twice over.
- Vegansexuals reject not only animal products, but sex with those that consume them.
- Getty Museum agrees to repatriate 40 pieces of Italian art, including collection centerpieces.
- Iran produces world's largest wool carpet, leaves lots of sheep cold.
- The sight of muffin-midriffs wobbling over low-slung waistbands will result in ejection. The Earl of March and Kinrara faces the plebes.
- We don't really understand it, but sure, a new internet sounds good.
- Re-packaged pill means menstruation on hold this week forward.
- It's the Institute of Food Technologists that's behind the food of the future, as well as pickle ultrasounds.
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- Ever whacked your thumb with a hammer or wrenched your back after lifting a heavy box and blamed the full moon? No.