Headlines from June 17, 2008
- Deadliest attack in Baghdad in more than three months kills 51 in market blast.
- Israel and Hamas agree on truce to begin Thursday.
- Three years and three Israeli au pairs later, with an average stay of 3.3 months, my wife and I licked our collective wounds.
- Op: McCain's dismissal of the Supreme Court's Guantanamo ruling skates on periously thin ice.
- How Obama's race in the race for the White House is viewed by the Chinese government.
- The number of Cubans trying to smuggle their way into America is the highest it has been for more than a decade.
- Video: In case you missed it, a mash-up of the White House's reaction to McClellan's book.
- British special forces enlisted by Bush to help find Bin Laden prior to White House change.
- Was the evil empire defeated by Reagan's communist jokes?
- Amy Winehouse receives $2 million to play less than an hour in Moscow.
- Gallery of "Silicon Forest," where Russian scientists now devote their skills to tech support for Western firms.
- "Your breasts should be back to normal soon." Players threaten to quit Age of Conan online game after glitch gives avatars "saggy breasts."
- Audio: A comic book about AIDS-infected superheroes.
- Print lives on: MagCloud goes beta for the indie publisher in you (more info here).
- The Republicans counter that calling the senator "McBush" is political spin and that Mr. McCain is his own man.
- Op: Lose the Nicorette. Light up instead. How Obama can appeal to blue-collar voters.
- How to nap; how to become a morning person.
- Why we can't track the tainted tomatoes: We can't remember where we got them.
- "It's almost your worst-case scenario for affecting the entire food chain." Mussels move west, threaten many species.
- Soaring gas prices force shameless commuters to ride Segways.
- If the basis of the World Wide Web is the hyperlink, then the web was invented in 1934.
- This year's Field-Tested Books--a guide to books read in other places--includes a book you can field test.
- For Iraqis, having a big family is a great achievement--a basic right that we shouldn't deprive man or dog. Iraqi veterinarians prefer matchmaking to neutering.
- In California, gay couples stress low-key, spin-proof weddings.
- Gay men, women have similarly shaped brains--as do lesbians and straight men.
- Astronomers locate "super-Earths"--larger than our planet, but orbiting around stars.
- Romanian villagers re-elect their deceased mayor.