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Headlines for 24 September 2003

New York’s currently: monsoon-y then sunshine-y

 Bienvenue Leonard Bonn!

 Saying the world had ‘come to a fork in the road,’ at what ‘may be a moment no less decisive than 1945 itself, when the United Nations was founded.’ Kofi Annan rebuffs Bush UN address. Related: Bush speech shows little has changed. Related: A critique of the address.

 Guantanamo airman charged with espionage.

 ‘A Miserable Failure:’ Bush’s re-election chances. Related: Administration loosens environmental regulations.

 Civilian dies in Iraqi roadside bombing intended for US patrol.

 Environmental extremism turns violent in California.

 Fliers that looked like expired green cards, T-shirts with the image of a drunken Mexican, and a mock border patrol checkpoint at the door. Duke University fraternity party stirs up bad feelings.

 New York restaurant video dining tours.

 A tropical fruit about the size of a tangerine, whose leathery maroon shell surrounds moist, fragrant, snow-white segments of ambrosial flesh. The exotic, unimportable mangosten.

 Just because: How to build a compressed-air potato gun. Also: How to play Bonving. (Throw a shoe, catch it in a bucket.)

 A list of (possibly) every known plant, its origin, natural predators, and how to ship (?) it.

 A rose, beautiful petals of ASCII, and a cautionary tale. Why? Because you’re failing your HTML class.

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