Headlines from October 3, 2007
- News appears of a 2005 secret endorsement by Justice Dept. of CIA's torture tactics.
- Unable to get the light weapons it needs from the U.S., Iraq takes $100 million to China for arms.
- "The Wal-Mart era is drawing to a close" because "quality has a chance to gain on price."
- Why are economists so misleading?
- Op: Since the facts never speak for themselves, scientists must frame their studies to engage the public.
- Your daily policy read(s), sponsored by the World Bank: 12 articles on whether or not aid works.
- Internal World Bank report says it encouraged companies to destructively log world's second largest forest, endangering thousands of Congolese Pygmies.
- As the drama in Burma fades--all protests crushed--the mundane misery of life for ordinary people continues.
- Stallone on Burma: "A hellhole beyond your wildest dreams."
- More than 100,000 protest Japan's attempt to edit out its military's mass-suicide order from textbooks.
- More libel: Foreigners sue other foreigners in England, then use those judgments to intimidate authors in other countries, including the U.S.
- Ten years later, the inquest into the death of Princess Diana finally opens, with 30 lawyers.
- British "celebrities" that you've never heard of list their greatest regrets.
- Times architecture critic Herbert Muschamp, whom you loved/hated/read regularly, dies of lung cancer at 59.
- Michael Townsend, artist who built a loft in a mall (see photos), has also been creating a stealth memorial for 9/11 around New York City for the last five years (images here).
- What life looks like all the time for your tongue.
- Completely unrelated: What Sherlock Holmes's PC might have looked like.
- In controversial move, Bush vetoes child health insurance act; what's he thinking?
- State Dept. to offer "an alternative source to mainstream media" and blog it up.
- Social creativity, retroactive pessimism among the coping mechanisms psychologists recommend for Mets fans.
- Anniversary of Ghandi's birth celebrated by bald-headed tykes.
- Smokeless tobacco returns to America via Ikea-land.
- Santorum has company: dictionary words named after people, with not-so-nice meanings.
- San Francisco cancels Castro Halloween party--at least 600 men in uniform still expected to attend.
- And the Vendy award for best street food goes to...
- Man stores amputated leg inside barbecue, grill sold to new owner, new owner wants to keep the leg.
- Related: Everyday to-do lists.
- In today's feature, Jonathan Bell reveals there's more to London weather than just gray skies.
- Mr. Sulu gets an asteroid named after him. (A reminder why we like the guy.)
- Sure, it's the 21st century, but we still think asteroids and two-headed animals portend ominous things.
