Headlines: January 2004 - The Morning News

‘He wanted to know but couldn’t understand what she had to say, so he waited until she was ready to tell him before asking what she meant.’ Ten mistakes writers don’t see.

Headlines for Tuesday, January 27, 2004

New York’s currently: an Avercamp picture without the jolly

Federal debt to reach $1.9 trillion in 10 years, could double if tax cuts are permanent, says Congressional Budget Office.

White House backing away from assertions that Iraq had weapons. Related: Blair also under attack, and he admits it.

U.S. had opportunities to stop terrorists from entering the country, says preliminary report from 9/11 commission.

Unregulated diet pills aren’t just for Britney Spears, they’re for all free-thinking Americans.

U.N. to send election team to Iraq if safe climate permits.

Rex rabbits are for mink-wearers who want more fun from their furs.

L.A. Reid’s boot from Arista is all about the bottom line.

Links to accused industry lapdogs happy to bark about mad cow disease.

Six years of filler from ancient Suck archives.

NYC sanitation worker crushed by garbage truck.

Pope and Lock: Vatican hosts, blesses break-dancers.

Jay Smooth’s real history of The Source, part one.

Yes, sue us, we do care: Ex-Yorker/once-Mario’d Buford presumed ‘in’ as Times restaurant critic. Related: Times Book Review gives up on contemporary fiction.

Hendrick Avercamp, appropriate for cold-ass Brooklyn.

Michael Beirut: Has rationalizing design gotten out of control?

Headlines for Monday, January 26, 2004

New York’s currently: tundra

Cop shoots unarmed teen in Brooklyn projects.

Former women inmates in Iraq emerging to bond with each other.

Former top U.S. weapons inspector in Iraq believes weapons not there, says intelligence agencies owe an explanation.

Slave trade in children for sex blooms in America.

Second rover lands in Martian crater, sends back images.

Gruesome new information discovered about Nazi experiments.

Bronx community plans to rid Joyce Kilmer Park of rats.

In San Diego County, beware the avocado thieves.

Man makes documentary in which he eats nothing but McDonald’s for a month; suffers serious health consequences.

‘I went to a Rolling Stones session [in LA] one time and I remember they were recording some really good music. Really good music.’ Wilson got so stoned, he remembers, that he couldn’t find the door. Remembering, and not remembering, with Brian Wilson.

Blogged first-hand stories straight from the inner circle of Apple during the early days of Macintosh, including how to get ahead with moustaches.

Tiny chairs made from champagne corks. [via coudal]

Is Lord of the Rings a rip-off of Wizard of Oz? Related: Fake baby dragon in a jar. And: Bill Gates to receive honorary knighthood.

Fantasty coffins from Ghana. And: More here.

92-year-old bank robber gets 12 years in prison.

Headlines for Friday, January 23, 2004

New York’s currently: doing things a little nutty

Iraqi leaders push Bush administration to drop caucus system as leading Shiite cleric finds new ways to protest.

Point-by-point fact-checking on Cheney’s interview with NPR.

All-out war between Brooklyn residents and developer/new-Nets owner Bruce Ratner.

Two Halliburton employees took $6 million in kickbacks for scoring work for a Kuwaiti company.

Renderings of Santiago Calatrava’s new World Trade Center Transportation Hub.

Gawker Media launches D.C. dish site Wonkette.

50,000-year-old mammoth skull discovered in gravel pit.

Wide-ranging if glossy analysis of university systems around the world.

The article that became the book: 2002’s ‘Power and Weakness’ by Robert Kagan.

Survey of art shows in Brooklyn.

Etiquette tips for packing a gun.

Interview with Kobi Shimoni, Israel’s right-wing rapper.

In recreational football the offensive line is a repository for boys too fat, too slow, or too awkward to be trusted with the ball. Inside the mind of a successful center.

Photo: Abandoned paper mill in Paris.

It’s about time someone made a Law & Order coloring book.

Headlines for Thursday, January 22, 2004

New York’s currently: iced up

Scientist’s account of touring North Korean nuclear plant.

Pentagon’s Internet voting deemed too risky.

Rescued home décor in Paris.

Hiking magazine contains route that would send climbers off the edge of a cliff.

On our way to Brooklyn: Nets sold to Ratner for $300 million. But: Brooklyn area residents not letting it happen without a fight.

How does one make money in couture?

Mel Gibson sneaks into Chicago area cinema to watch screening of his controversial film.

Democrats meet in New Hampshire for tonight’s debate.

For loving William Blake.

Analysis of points made during State of the Union address.

Art Garfunkel busted for marijuana possession. Groovy.

The deal with German toilets.

Russian troops save beer trapped under Siberian ice.

Berlin’s ‘Take My Breath Away’ has a good finale, in which the characters in the band assemble finally for their first group shot, then disappear. A guide to ’80s music-video directors.

You’re not fooling anybody with that storefront.

If the woman appears while the man is engaged in his sexual act alone, this becomes the basis of comedy, as is embodied in Aristophanes’ great work ‘What Do You Think You’re Doing?’ Aristotle on relationships.

Headlines for Wednesday, January 21, 2004

New York’s currently: tethered to the machine

Bush proposes few new programs, includes solutions Congress has already rejected. Related: Motives and fictions in the SOTU address.

Lunatic subway rider severs thumb from 71-year-old Queens man, chews up his grandson’s face.

TMN’s Choire Sicha contemplates class warfare, attends P.R. lunch with Tina Brown, Thomas Friedman.

Transportation Department rejects ‘Oy Vey’ sign on the Williamsburg Bridge for ‘lack of directional information.’

Cuddling, cats, and crosswords in ‘cozies,’ publishers’ favorite term for lustless blockbusters.

Bush gets first F on the League of Conservation Voters’ report card for presidents.

TMN’s Tobias Seamon looks back on what books have taught him.

Hauntings at the Maritime Hotel, otherwise known as the asylum with portholes on Ninth Avenue.

Tobacco, coffee, alcohol, hashish, prussic acid, strychnine, are weak dilutions: the surest poison is time. Emerson on getting old. (See also: reasons to love Emerson.)

P.J. O’Rourke saves Iraq, builds latrines.

King cakes in 1870, Tuna buns in 1964, more in the timeline of food.

Archive of Commentary since 1945. Related: 700 years of costumes, via things.

A well-compiled pointer to your cheese education.

Dummy guide to primaries and caucuses. Related: Funked up remix of recent Dean speech.

What, no watermelon? Northwestern celebrates Martin Luther King day with collard greens, fried chicken.

What happens to Gephardt’s money?

Headlines for Tuesday, January 20, 2004

New York’s currently: slip-sliding

Paul O’Neill’s warning of Reagan-era deficits.

Kerry wins Iowa caucuses, Gephardt expected to bow out. Why? ‘There wasn’t the enthusiasm for Dick,’ the source said. Next: On to New Hampshire, with no clear victor in sight, history will show.

‘Iraqi Idol’ proving an Iraqi television hit.

Shiites in Baghdad call for Saddam Hussein’s execution.

Bush rehearses his State of the Union address. Related: Keep tabs on what’s what with a State of the Union scorecard. Or don’t, with a State of the Union drinking game.

McSweeney’s gets two on the National Book Critics Circle nominee list.

Police investigate series of mysterious assaults on Stephen Hawking.

It was at this moment that our new secretary, Miss Lola Kelly, walked in. Now, in the debate over whether everything is made up of particles or waves, Miss Kelly is definitely waves. Woody Allen, ‘When the universe is expanding it can make you late for work.’ [via coudal]

Backwards masking in popular music and culture (with audio samples).

Group to recreate Steinbeck’s voyage around the Sea of Cortez.

Finland shuts down text messages from Jesus.

With Stephen King’s new 13-week series, networks acknowledge stealing the idea of the short-run season from HBO.

Martha Stewart supporters take to the streets, buying subscriptions, merchandise to show allegiance.

Solving Donnie Darko and solving the Donnie Darko Web site.

Cow eats diamonds, farmer getting them back the slow way.

Headlines for Friday, January 16, 2004

New York’s currently: tfiffin’

For the first time since World War II, Japan sends its troops into a combat zone —this time, Iraq.

Israel plans to hunt down and kill the leader of Hamas in retaliation for attack on border guards.

Bush extends offer to Asia and Europe to join U.S. trip to moon and Mars.

This year’s flu vaccine proved determined to have ‘little or no effectiveness.’

Savoring Chuck Close. And: The Close exhibit at the Met.

French defense minister hopes to improve U.S. relations.

U.S. and Iraqis want U.N. to take a role in interim government.

Demonstrators protest Bush visit to MLK grave.

The boring end of ecstasy.

Let’s start with one truth… Where the U.S. estimates of Iraqi WMDs may have gone awry.

Zombies take note! Mad cow nothing! Bring on the brain sandwiches!

The lamest press releases of the 2004 campaign.

She tools around River Heights in an environmentally friendly, gas/electric hybrid car. Nancy Drew gets hip for the 21st century.

Gays and straights join forces to save a Chicago gay bar.

Man caught in marijuana possession turns out to have bowels full of 54 condoms’ worth of cocaine.

Italian scientists working on a pill that replicates the health effects of wine.

The girl who triggered Beatlemania.

Headlines for Thursday, January 15, 2004

New York’s currently: hopefully seeing you tonight

Profiles of overseas investors as the dollar continues its plunge south and foreign cash flow is ever more vital.

Bush solves NASA’s vision problem, with less than 40/40 hindsight for a history of failed visions behind him.

Hot when it’s cold: TMN Third Thursday party tonight!

U.S. to give every Iraqi $3,544.91, let free-market capitalism do the rest.

Guilty plea for ex-Enron CFO Andrew Fastow, highest ranking criminal so far to admit participation in crimes.

Carol Moseley Braun drops out of race, endorses Dean.

J.P. Morgan Chase’s acquisition of Bank One will create the second largest bank in the U.S.

Manhattan mice feel real estate crunch, desperate need of decent holes.

Typical Internet user not a geek, shuns television, enjoys spending time with friends, also so-called friends.

The story of Sophie Calle’s career, including regrets over the fascinating ‘Address Book.’ Related: Calle to speak at 92Y on March 18.

Obscurist Dennis Miller plays Bush fund-raisers, gets new(s) show on CNBC, basks in available spotlights.

For Sunday: The Silk Road Through Kings County: Ethnic Food Manufacturing in Brooklyn.

Moonlight Chronicles author Dan Price has his very own hobbit hole.

Articles from books and journals in the Making of America archive proves yes, every story has already been written.

I know anal sex is the new black, because my bloody mother just rang to talk about it. Journal of a London prostitute.

An illustrated history of folding chairs.

Headlines for Wednesday, January 14, 2004

New York’s currently: your next top model

Finished World Trade Center memorial site design to be unveiled today.

Third U.S. helicopter shot down in Fallujah in past two weeks.

Bush administration planning $1.5 billion drive to promote marriage.

Alarmingly high PCB levels found in farm-raised salmon; so, how to tell the difference?

What makes CBS’s Ali and Jack not work?

Former Treasury Secretary says claims of war bias ‘a total misunderstanding.’

Subaru alters design of Outback to qualify as a light truck —and take advantage of different air pollution standards.

British suburban doctor jailed for killing 215 patients hangs self in cell.

Police in India being paid to grow moustaches.

Many fast-food chains reveal their low-carb options.

Logarithmic map of the universe, beginning at Earth’s core. Related: Why begin so close to home?

How did you get that f*&%ing awesome job? An interview with Mike Mills, not the R.E.M. guy, the other one.

Scientists on Spirit rover project have to live in Martian days, each one 39.5 minutes longer than an Earth day. Related: Wonderful Martian VR panorama.

‘The person either has access to some type of chicken costume or owns a chicken suit.’ Man dressed as chicken robs grocery store.

Inventive Flash madness: Hoogerbrugge and Wiggle present FLOW.

Headlines for Tuesday, January 13, 2004

New York’s currently: a tradition to wake up for

Supreme Court defers to Bush in saying shush about hundreds of Muslims detained after Sept. 11.

Showdown between democrats and theocrats in Iran, while EU urges fair vote, and Ayatollah Khamenei stays out of it.

Billions of oil revenue go missing in Angola.

Greenland’s prisoners can go shopping, hold jobs, and enjoy hunting, though not while drunk.

Author of The Threatening Storm Kenneth Pollack reexamines the reckless path to war in Iraq.

When journalism is only another part of public relations, savvy guests know how to work the interview.

Liberal hawks—Pollack, Friedman, Hitchens—reconsider invading Iraq.

New AIDS drug beats virus’s toughest strains, but at $20,000 a year, states either ration treatments or pass altogether.

Cops arrest 17 at New York City schools.

The abandoned bicycles of New York.

Coney Island looked on as Stephen Marbury made his hometown debut with the Knicks.

Have someone else rip your CD library into MP3s.

Man works out, gets cut, buys better boxer shorts.

Neo-Brechtian vaudeville looks back on burned Manhattan architecture.

Photography: Stormgasms.

Former trademarks now used generically (including moxie!).

Spalding Gray goes missing.

Headlines for Monday, January 12, 2004

New York’s currently: layering

Former Treasury secretary claims Bush wanted to find a reason to oust Hussein pre-Sept 11.

Supreme Court set to weigh presidential powers.

Three years ago Bush charmed Latin America at the Summit of the Americas; now he faces an audience more wary of him.

New study shows link between higher cabbie pay, less frequent taxi crashes.

Iraqi Shiite cleric pushes for direct elections, which would alter White House plans for leaving.

Sizable communities have coalesced, some allegedly numbering 200 people or more, complete with ‘mayors,’ elaborate social structures, even electricity. The Straight Dope on whether or not there are mole people living beneath New York City.

Still no takers: you can place your bid on the assets and masters for now-defunct Beastie Boys record label Grand Royal.

The 100 most commonly misspelled words in the English language.

You don’t own this album? Good Lord, even Insound carries it —what are you worried about!?! Prog records worth losing your indie cred over.

January issue of Citywriters is out.

PBS funding rise after three-year low; still no support for Masterpiece Theatre.

‘Credit creep’: movie credits are getting longer and longer. See the side-by-side comparison of Return of the King to some other films.

Listen to speech accents from around the world.

‘The dinosaurs are not around today because they did not have a space program.’ A list of our most compelling reasons for space exploration.

New Yorker profile of Larry David.

Headlines for Friday, January 9, 2004

New York’s currently: the property of Kevin Kline

Putin’s challengers for president all plan to lose while praising his Pootie-Pootness.

Should we fear when Bush’s big-spending, big government has no plans to fix the deficit, marked at $450 billion this year?

‘Tis the season for halitosis, at least for Jonathan Ames.

Powell: There is no link between Saddam’s Iraq and Al Qaeda.

After Tuesday’s confusing crack – ‘neo’ means ‘Jewish,’ ha ha! – David Brooks apologizes. Related: Feds probe Gawker report from Martha Stewart trial.

Courting women voters, or a place in the next Outkast video, Wesley Clark swaps suit for an argyle sweater and duck boots.

Lack of airs, plenty of genius in Penelope Fitzgerald’s art of fiction.

Persuasive call for a secular candidate for the White House.

Friday movie: Ninja of the Night.

George Harrison’s oncologist ousted from Staten Island Hospital, days after Harrison’s estate sued for the doctor’s coercing Harrison to sign autographs.

Drawings and journals in Danny Gregory’s new blog Everyday Matters.

New York City chess tables for sale. Related: High noon of chess, from a concrete auditorium in Iceland.

Elliott Smith’s death possibly a homicide.

Journal guide to good wines under $10.

Doing it means different things to different people in St. Louis.

Headlines for Thursday, January 8, 2004

New York’s currently: filled with saltwater

At currently predicted rates, global warming will push up to 37 percent of living species toward extinction by 2050.

Until British travelers have new biometric passports, they will have to be photographed and fingerprinted to enter the U.S.

Eight die in U.S. helicopter crash in Iraq.

U.S. prepares to release 506 of 13,000 Iraqi detainees, many of whom have been held for months without being charged.

Connecticut governor apologizes amidst pressure to resign for lying about receiving gifts.

Casually dressed nuclear scientists with sophisticated radiation detection equipment hidden in briefcases and golf bags scour[ed] five major U.S. cities. Concern and action over dirty bombs at New Year’s celebrations.

I.M.F. says rising U.S. deficit threatens the stability of the global economy.

Boom mics drop into the tops of frames, continuity issues abound, read about them all at moviemistakes.com.

Misdelivered mail unveils domestic terror plot in the works.

You’re buying it because it’s tiny, that’s why. Why the iPod Mini is a good idea.

To hell with terraforming: It seemed that we were discussing the Ameriforming of Mars. Is Mars Ours?

Rare Norwegian bird survives 15-hour journey to Britain, where it’s eaten by a birdwatcher’s cat.

Follow the zing-zing and va-voom of gadgetry from the Consumer Electronics Show at Gizmodo.

What you should know if you’re dating my ex-wife.

New Aeron chairs emit an unpleasant odor.