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Headlines for 11 November 2004

New York’s currently: upped its cheeseburger index to five patties weekly

 Arafat dies a statesman and a salesman, and successors wait in the wings while reporters wonder about buried treasure.

 Troops control much of Fallujah “with the gloves off;” Smoking soldier seduces many U.S. newspapers.

 Bush’s pick for attorney general (Gonzales) to provide excellent shield for Bush.

 Doping scandal rocks Britain’s pigeon communitywill Brooklyn be plagued as well?

 22 killed around northern Iraq, prompting curfews in Mosul and Baiji.

 Hemingway’s rotting house, and fishing tackle, caught between preservationists’ good will and Treasury Department’s Cuban policies.

 New Murray’s Cheese Shop opens in Manhattan.

 Since leaving the CIA, George Tenet has made over $500,000 for off-the-record speaking engagements.

 Only in NY: What do you get when socialites become publicists? Exactly: socialists.

 Education boom sees record number of Americans now studying in the Middle East.

 101 ideas for 2005, including intelligent shoes and brand-name adjectives, though still no flying cars.

 Thought of the Day, as provided by a cell phone and the London Tube.

 Large doses of vitamin E may be harmful.

 At some point today (perhaps) the Paris Review will make all of its interviews, ever, available online for free.

 Prophecies predicting the end of the world before 2010.

 They munch pastries and steak frites from breakfast cocktails to last call, and still they stay thin—another look at “The French Paradox.”

 Very unsafe for work: Pictures of couple breaking known sex laws.

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