Headlines from December 11, 2007
- Car bombs outside U.N. and government offices in Algiers kill 45, mostly students.
- Sleep, attention, and memory: what you didn't know about "stickyness."
- Wal-Mart panties for teenage girls suggest they accept cash for sleeping around.
- Crunks 2007: The Year in Media Errors and Corrections. See also: How to feed the hungry by improving your capacity for big words.
- Japan is so close to nuclear weapons capacity, Tokyo "could do it, sort of, over a long weekend."
- Japan's shock magazines no longer shock; see our gallery of some of the original images that did the job.
- Chinese bureaucrats do the dye: "Few countries are as averse to gray as China is."
- Can you really do philosophy with clipboards and questionnaires? Battle between visions of contemporary philosophy over the value of research.
- Economics theory on what might have happened if the U.S. government had given land to freed slaves.
- Ecological theory suggests removing the top predator may actually be worse for the prey.
- The remarkable online experience of The Whale Hunt.
- Supreme Court rules selling crack doesn't always have to be punished 100 times as harshly as selling powder cocaine.
- Print for the commute home: Man who hates his son's taste for wrestling becomes drawn to investigating a wrestler's death.
- "It's uncommon, to say the least, to find these." Maine town battles to retrieve a Declaration of Independence found in a deceased resident's attic.
- Former CIA employee denounces waterboarding, vouches for its effectiveness.
- Long Island company rents boss-dunking machine for parties.
- While traveling in Beijing, Bloomberg OKs MTA fare hike--from a safe distance.
- It's a good time to be a barbecue chef in New York, good enough for six figures.
- Although it may be acceptable to pick one's teeth at a Japanese table, it is not acceptable to lay one's used chopsticks or toothpick on the common surface.
- An Indian restaurant with tea and headstones in equal measure.
- Researchers believe Mormons' monthly fast may stave off heart disease--works for non-believers, too.
- Getting friendly with the kind of bacteria that doesn't cause a massive product recall.
- The new pinup calendar: Italian doctors strip down for cancer research.
- Hanging next to the sign, in vivid Coast Guard orange, is the last line of defense, a brace of fly swatters. The hunt for a new malaria vaccine.
- Video: Fan reactions, clips from Led Zeppelin's spectacular reunion show in London.
- Richard Beymer's (Benjamin Horne) photos from the final day of shooting Twin Peaks.