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Headlines for 12 July 2004

New York’s currently: in one year, out the other

 Little international aid promised to Iraq handed over, debts go unforgiven.

 Floods force more than two million to flee their homes in South Asia.

 Unusually bloody weekend in New York with 11 killed.

 Karzai says armed militias are top threat to Afghanistan’s stability, after postponing parliamentary elections for six months.

 If Earl Dodger has a sex change, does he become a countess, in which case there will then be two Countess Dodgers? Notes on anticipating gender swaps in the British House of Lords.

 Sharon and Peres meet to make nice, withdraw from Gaza together.

 Bush chains constitutional ban on gay marriage to the front of his campaign.

 How soldiers use email to stay close to their families.

 Unlike secular geologists, creationist geologists don’t need to speculate about history. Creationist account, approved by National Park Service, blames Eve for the Grand Canyon.

 Nude portrait of Monty Python’s Terry Jones unveiled.

 DeLay accused of raising funds from Enron and other groups to redistrict Texas, a big no-no.

 Former hostess at formerly hot NY restaurant recalls humpy Star Jones, drunky Barbara Bush.

 MP3s: John Kerry’s high school band The Electras.

 Big profile of graphic novelists, particularly Ware, Seth, and Speigelman.

 Howtoons teach kids about eye safety, ice boards, how to count like a computer.

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