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Headlines for 18 September 2003

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 Bush says there is no link between Saddam Hussein and September 11. Related: Bush leads all challengers, Democratic or otherwise, in reelection poll. Related: Wesley Clark enters 2004 race.

 US speeds up plans for new Iraqi army.

 New York Stock Exchange Chairman resigns over pay dispute.

 Bill Gates donates $51 million to New York City schools.

 ‘The World Trade Center,’ and that’s what it will still be called.

 Police kill gunman in Tennessee college hostage crisis.

 A collection of articles that inspired events at The New Yorker festival. Related: It’s a rock-star life (drugs, screaming fans) for the literary lions at the festival.

 Snapple, now the official beverage of New York, has too much sugar in it.

 Man sells cookie jar online, meets long-lost brother. [via os]

 If you both decide to stay still, then the wait time is either infinite, if you get locked in, or again until the store closes. What science says to do when you’re lost in the supermarket.

 Angle-Grinder Man, vigilante/comedian, removes wheel-clamps. Related: Curly, comedian, has Three Stooges tattoos all over his body.

 Reality TV and Jane Austen.

 Long-aged North Carolina country hams.

 How To: By You.

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