Headlines from September 6, 2007
- New congressional report on Iraq works for both parties, though, for Petraeus, we wait until Monday to see.
- Not so for Bill Clinton, never far from a podium.
- Federal judge junks Patriot Act warrantless tactic, second time he's called provisions unconstitutional.
- Op: Germany will now have a harder time telling itself the war on terror is fiction.
- German youth football beset by severe anti-semitism; despite plenty of anti-Nazi money and programs, there are many places in Germany non-Aryans should avoid.
- Black Enterprise cuts Eddie Griffin's mic for using the n-word too many times.
- Air Force dumbfounded over how it accidentally lost its luggage--six nuclear warheads--on a flight to Louisiana.
- The trip was long and uneventful, other than two checkpoints being run by masked men. Blog account of a family leaving Iraq.
- Study finds bird flu left one human for another in Indonesia last year.
- Australian comedy show drives fake Canadian motorcade, with fake bin Laden, up to Bush's hotel.
- Op: Offsetting carbon--i.e., paying poor villagers to pump water by foot--is a shabby salve for your eco-guilt.
- Evidence suggests France is using China as an external U.S.B hard drive to offset itself.
- The white paper you've been waiting for: how magicians protect their intellectual property without law.
- A complete guide to prosopagnosia, or, face blindness.
- When women stop reading fiction, the novel will die, though the research on exactly why is still oustanding.
- Fond obit for Michael Jackson, emeritus master of beer writing, and possessor of Parkinson's.
- Think you know your TMN, nevermind your maps? Subscribe to The Morning Newsletter for all the insider-y goodness.
- Germany still seeking 10 men connected to yesterday's foiled terrorist plot.
- Discontinued use of anti-depressants believed to cause suicidal thinking is linked to... an increase in suicide.
- Large percentage of New Jersey's political elite arrested in federal corruption probe.
- How Freddie Thompson knocked up success and wedded himself to politics.
- Sen. Craig's aides need to get their resignation stories straight.
- Sen. Kennedy rolls over at vote 15,000.
- Government spends 20 years restocking Colorado rivers with the wrong trout, three years discovering the mistake.
- Jolly raunchy fun: English resort town cracking down on bachelor/bachelorette parties.
- Oh, the inevitable irony of Pfizer computers sending out Vi@G3a spam.
- Universities and credit card companies: often in bed together, occasionally fleecing you.
- In today's feature, Michael Y. Park makes a sportswriter out of you.
- Can you solve the mystery of the "driver who should be dead but isn't"? (The original photos.)
- Related: How to detect Photoshop fakery.
- The changing Brooklyn stoop sale: always good for a few columns of print, right?