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Headlines for 10 December 2004

New York’s currently: growing gills

 Bush says no tax increase for Social Security reform, prompting privatization as a more likely option.

 Privatization of Social Security still doesn’t solve its inherent flaw: that as baby boomers retire, there will be fewer workers to support them.

 Ex-Pantera guitarist murdered in on-stage nightclub shooting; motive unknown.

 Must be time for winter break: Harvard wants people to know it sucks and Bennington students can’t keep their clothes on.

 Meet the real Steve Zissou: a lawyer in Queens

 Get CDs from the final shows of the Pixies North American tour.

 Bizarre, yet informative: Stop the Sores.

 Smart clothes for frequent travelers: plastic clasps, shank-less shoes.

 Scientists grow rat brain in petri dish, teach it to fly a fighter plane.

 Video: Ann Coulter and Tucker Carlson bash Canada, for no real reason.

 Election results got your holiday spirit in a dizzle? Have yourself a blue Christmas and buy only from retailers that donated to the Democratic Party.

 Just about everything you’ve ever wanted to know about the art of James Bond.

 Animated hobnobbery: Someone keeps stealing my letters…

 Printable messages to cellphone loudmouths: Shhh! (PDF)

 Take Our Word For It, the online word-origin magazine.

 See Depeche Mode remixed in video and relive the glory days of eighties British guitar-pop at Turquoise Days.

 Photos of Uncle Jesse doing stuff at What Would Uncle Jesse Do?

 TMN’s Ghost of Present Future Perfect thanks you for donating to needy writers! (And shakes its chains for yesterday’s three kind givers!)

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