Headlines from December 1, 2010
- Senate approves food-safety bill, which many believe doesn't reach far enough, but is better than serving poisoned peanut butter.
- With Congress deadlocked on jobless benefits, two million people will go unpaid this month--a potentially serious blow to the U.S. economy.
- With competing billboards near the Lincoln Tunnel, atheists, Catholic League spar over the meaning of Christmas.
- The day after shuttering its Fiji facilities and firing all its workers over a tax hike, Fiji Water agrees to the new tax.
- Consumer Reports releases its lists of retailers with "naughty" and "nice" holiday return policies.
- "When it's hard to sell your home... it's hard to sell your snake ranch." Roadside attractions face tough decisions.
- An exhibit of the "degenerate" art Nazis sought to eradicate, excavated from Berlin nearly 70 years later.
- Among the Wikileaks: Fearing "thin-skinned" Sarkozy's ire, advisers diverted his plane so he wouldn't see the Eiffel Tower lit like the Turkish flag.
- With speculation Bank of America is next for Wikileaking, its stock price dropped more than 3%.
- Mr. Assange found a possibly more predictable ally--his mother...who runs a puppet theater in Australia's Queensland state.
- Bullying isn't a "sticks and stones" situation, but one as neurologically harmful as domestic abuse.
- Scientists reverse aging in mice--next up, humans.
- Study suggests the T.S.A.'s racial profiling is less effective than if they searched random people.
- Hamas to accept referendum on peace treaty with Israel provided it includes all Palestinians in Gaza, West Bank, and diaspora.
- Muslim Brotherhood to boycott Egyptian runoff vote after losing all seats.
- Musudan rumors--North Korea's missile, the BM-25--explored; evidence lacking that Iran can hit Western Europe with a missile.
- Ecuador's Correa says asylum offer to Assange has been withdrawn.
- Dancehall: Jamaican cultural emblem, or homophobic "murder music?"
- Real hunters don't shoot pets. Canned hunting is booming; Fair-chase Montana hunters fight back.
- Norway reopens inquiry into attempted murder of Salman Rushdie's publisher 17 years ago (case details).
- McCann: Europe is now a dreamhouse of America, maybe even more "American" than the U.S itself.
- Hey, crowd: Please tell us your personal liner notes for 2010.
- Batman's legal status considered in light of state-actor protections.
- Nicki Minaj understood in female-rapper context: the best one willing to do it.
- See also: Gold-injected plants produce bioluminescence.
- Lunchtime game: Hand-drawn erotic photo hunt.