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Headlines for 30 September 2004

New York’s currently: telling the neighbor’s kids it can’t come out to play

 After months of campaigning and weeks of misleading claims, the candidates enter their first debate, on foreign policy, tonight.

 Watch the debates and play along! With the real rules (PDF), the drinking rules, or the real rules, made funny.

 Expos to leave Montreal for Washington, DC, becoming the capital’s fourth major-league baseball team. (Dick Cheney, out of context: “It will force a lot of us to reorient our loyalties.”) And: The history of relocated major-league baseball teams.

 How electronic voting works in India, and why it works so well.

 Six sentenced in bombing of U.S.S. Cole, two to death.

 There are those who work at the Natural History Museum through the night, and there are those who travel to France to solve The Da Vinci Code.

 Hate having to watch a movie to find out what happens at the end? Find your spoilers here.

 New provision could allow U.S. to export prisoners to countries where torture is not a problem.

 Despite low U.S. relations, Iran foreign minister says his country has the right to explore atomic technology, and does not intend to create nuclear weapons.

 The fascinating Theban Mapping Project.

 New Yorkers actually leave the city—this time to register voters and campaign for their candidates.

 Because you’ve always wanted to know: Battlestar Galactica Time Units and Their Earth Equivalents.

 Man writes phone number in Crate & Barrel catalog photo, meets up with callers for dinner, photos.

 Man stages home invasion so he can fight the intruders and impress his wife.

 Russian support of Kyoto Protocol may pressure the world’s biggest polluter, the U.S., to reenter the treaty.

 Godard’s A Woman is a Woman is not a musical, but it acts like a musical.

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