Headlines from February 6, 2008
- Australia apologizes for 50-year practice of kidnapping Aboriginal children.
- Afghanistan to become world's top marijuana producer (no longer just defensive cover for Taliban fighters).
- American teens hear more than 30,000 references to booze and drugs annually via pop music; 20,000 are positive.
- Putin's heir apparent to receive Deep Purple concert as parting gift from Gazprom.
- How American Samoa prepared for its Super Tuesday spotlight; how America's ridiculous caucus rules are, in fact, legal.
- How Eli Lilly fell into the spotlight: Lawyer sends corporate secrets to Times reporter Berenson, rather than co-counsel Berenson.
- Ladies and gentlemen, and Tony Blair... World leaders gather for Ahmadinejad roast (see also: thermal pictures from a zoo).
- Reading the week in
fashionSuzy Menkes. - It's only February, but it seems the headline of the year has been found.
- How you see it: a single news story told by three news stations simultaneously.
- New technique involving three parents and one baby may prevent mitochondrial disease.
- The week's brilliant inventions include nugget-holding soda cups and smoking ban-friendly mini-cigarettes.
- Sometimes a party's so great, you have to swallow your house key to avoid going home.
- Despite Kennedy, Kerry endorsements, Clinton bags Massachusetts, but she's still in a virtual tie with Obama.
- McCain sees big wins across the nation, though Huckabee, Romney aren't out of the race.
- Romney loses West Virginia, thanks to some old school moves from the McCain and Paul teams.
- One more loser from yesterday: the proposal to replace Alcatraz with a global peace center.
- Scientific itch-scratching really scratches the itch.
- The tale behind the O'Brien/Colbert/Stewart feud, and all of it in one succinct YouTube number.
- Matthew Baldwin watches Sophie's Choice as part of his AFI 100 Project. (See the rest of the project here.)
- These stories...reveal something about the eternal and dangerous nature of being female. The adoptions and abortions of four decades ago.
- Fiction writers: L Magazine's Search for Pocket Fiction competition is now taking submissions.
- Video: A meeting with an editor: "Maybe it's not a shark, but it's a squid, or a pebble, or a policeman."
- At a London concert, Morrissey sports an "Obama-Morrissey" T-shirt.
- I recently shaved my 161 day old beard and placed it in a mason jar. Beard for sale.
- Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, founder of the Transcendental Meditation movement, dies--believed to have been 91 years old.