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Headlines for 4 October 2004

New York’s currently: committed to ignoring polls for six weeks

 14 killed, dozens injured by two car bombs attacking lines of police recruits in Baghdad.

 U.S. regains control of Samarra, prepares to hand over control to Iraqi security forces.

The big story:  How the White House used disputed intelligence to convince itself Saddam was preparing nukes (including self-criticism for the Times).

 Cars donated to charity bought by Mexican smugglers for moving immigrants across the border.

 Spanish and French police arrest alleged ETA leaders.

 AIDS might be a good thing, in a way, because it is killing people who only destroy the country anyway. Stories behind Russia’s enormous AIDS problem.

 Birth-control pill for men to debut within five years—what took so long?

 Afghanistan’s opium poppy cultivation set to break records this year, far past levels reported during the Taliban regime.

 Present celebrities compared to subjects in the National Gallery.

 International election observers unimpressed by U.S. voting methods; states still debating whether to require a paper confirmation of electronic votes.

 No hats (in meetings); no TV (within ninety minutes of game time); no cell phones (when Coach is around). A few of Tom Coughlin’s new rules for the Giants.

 American doctors win Nobel Prize in medicine for work on smells.

 Reports from voting classes, in preparation for Afghanistan’s presidential election that’s only a week away; voters menaced by Taliban attacks, militia intimidation.

 Have whites come to speak “black” better than blacks speak “white?”

 Put some fairydust over the bastard! Studio chat from the Troggs, band that inspired This Is Spinal Tap.

 Questions for Kissinger if he ever stops traveling.

 MP3s: The band Soft.

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