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Headlines for 22 November 2004

New York’s currently: limbering up for the holidays

 U.S. military says more troops are required in Iraq, and discovers houses in Fallujah where hostage killings were videotaped.

 Paving a new Iraq: Nations forgive 80 percent of the country’s debt and Shiite leader wages a get-out-the-vote campaign for the January elections.

 Bush meets with Mexican President Fox, reasserts intent to let immigrants attain guest-worker status.

 Bush looked enormously pleased with himself. He was wearing the expression that some critics call a smirk, and his eyebrows shot up as if to wink at bystanders. Presidential lunging in Chile.

 New Yorkers finally wonder about these Falun Gong protesters; while past coverage shows their cult status is up for grabs, their leader believes aliens live among us and that he can walk through walls and become invisible.

 Satellite images and physically fit surveyors: How the U.N. counted the poppies in Afghanistan.

 U.S. teen pregnancy rate drops, nobody can agree why, and everybody takes credit for it.

 Thanksgiving is a time for family and friends… and kids going home to fix their parents’ computers.

 Incredible photos of Tokyo sewers.

 Hunter kills five, wounds three in argument over deer stand.

 I am coming up with exciting new names for dog parts. The preservaline. The mysterious tenth leg. The zanzibar. The right about there. Critiquing the artwork at the 2004 Arizona State Fair.

 Video clerk in Williamsburg attacked by werewolf, questions the effectiveness of silver bullets.

 Following Malcolm Gladwell’s article about the role of plagiarism in art in which he writes that Nirvana swiped from Boston is an mp3 that compares the two songs, as well as proof the band knew how to play both songs.

 Those who view Superman as a role model are less likely to help others.

 “That line is typical of Lennon’s creations. This song is all about drugs.” And more meanings behind songs.

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