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Headlines for 14 December 2004

New York’s currently: only being good for goodness’s sake

 Unocal to settle human-rights abuse claims in Myanmar.

 Senate Democrats announce watchdog committee to review what the GOP-controlled Congress won’t.

 Even though Santa is missing from London department stores, you can still find him online.

 Google makes deal with libraries to digitize millions of books.

 Deadlines are deadly.

 89-year-old former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet deemed fit to stand trial.

 What is dioxin? And can its effects be reversed?

 Become a British lord or lady for 60 bucks.

 Tom Wolfe slithers to a win in the bad sex lit award.

 Serpents hissed and glared at me from every side, and huge lizards and ugly shapes scrambled over the wet floor. Journalist infiltrates 1883 New York opium den.

 From Abbey Records to Zucchini: an A to Zed of Spinal Tap.

 50 ways to end the year in New York.

 Why beer is only as good as its rocks and what happens inside your body when you drink it.

 How to crack a safe.

 Op: It’s time to defend television against the attacks from the moral, or at least the vocal, right.

 The International Dark-Sky Association petitions against light pollution, so you can see the stars.

 An 1890s guide to etiquette for English gentlemen.

 John Coltrane’s composition “Giant Steps” forms both a ditone and a quadratone progression between the key centers of B, G, and Eb. Let’s see how that works.

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