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Headlines for 21 December 2004

New York’s currently: as cold on the outside as it was on the inside

 Bush holds press conference, dodges questions trying to make him “negotiate with himself.”

 The math behind the Mets paying $54 million for four years of Pedro.

 These tactics have produced no intelligence… New FBI memos show pattern of abuse against detainees in Guantanamo.

 If poisoning is not an amateur’s game, why did Yushchenko’s would-be killers use dioxin?

 The unsolicited commercial love story of Alicia and Maurice.

 Stores offer free booze to encourage holiday shopping.

 Clinton’s national security adviser watches Hotel Rwanda with remorse, and fury over international lassitude toward deaths in Darfur and Congo.

 Photos: Jonathan Long, Nathalie Grenzhaeuser.

 A fascinating look at the beginnings of New York public transportation and Alfred Beach’s Pneumatic Subway.

 How do I avenge a shark attack? Can lasers really bring down planes?

 Twenty-five percent of Indian teachers absent on any given day.

 Meta-list of newspapers’ “Best of 2004” book lists.

 MP3s: The Beatles’ Christmas records, a Tijuana Christmas.

 Profile of Malcolm Gladwell, humble New Yorker writer, semi-god to marketers everywhere.

 Things Steve shouldn’t eat, but does anyway.

 Build a champion of cheer.

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