New York’s currently: lighting candles in the window

 Bush wins backing for intelligence reform bill, hoping for congressional passage this week.

 20 years later, string theory remains unexplainable, untestable, and not for the untrained.

 Kurds threaten to boycott election unless they can reclaim Kirkuk, a city of violently contested history called “the Jerusalem of the Kurds.”

 Truck bearing Mexico—a plexiglass box full of hunk and babes—taunts Manhattan.

 Elections are the ideal way to expel the occupier from Iraq. Shiite clergy drums massive campaign to get out the vote.

 Daily life described by people in Iraq.

 Biodegradable plastic designed so cell phones can grow sunflowers.

 Excellent summary of the UN’s crisis, when it can’t keep pace with U.S. pre-emptive ambitions.

 Morrissey sings to the disaffected, and God knows alienation is part of the assimilation tradition. Understanding Latino love for Morrissey.

 “Night and Reality” photographs by Yoshi Abe.

 Why is importing a bottle of wine directly against the law in two dozen states—and how soon will that change?

 Two-thirds of artists say peer-to-peer file sharing poses a minor threat or no threat at all to them.

 CIA’s Baghdad chief sees horizon of worse security, worse violence.

 Fantastic: Skeletons of popular cartoon characters revealed.

 26 dead in past two months from Japanese suicide clubs.

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