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Headlines for 3 April 2006

New York’s currently: avoiding the 4/5

 Fifty killed in Iraq yesterday, including six Americans.

 With the most rapid growth in spending since FDR, the government now burns 21 cents of every buck earned.

 Today in the ToB: Never Let Me Go vs. Home Land, judged by Mark Sarvas.

 Rice and Straw press for unity, but when it comes to sleep, Straw gets the bed and Rice takes the aisle.

 Birkenstock suffers a Coke/Pepsi personality split.

 Target quietly provides law enforcement services to the government.

 Op: Australia’s deals with close neighbors will test its longer ties to the U.S. and U.K.

 Jill Carroll arrives home safely, just in time to face the web’s ugly mob.

 Argentinian president struggles to keep choice beef cheap for his constituents.

 Convicted sex offender sleeps on his roof because his wife won’t kick the kids out of the bedroom.

 Prostitution Exclusion Zone causes problems elsewhere.

 Whereas: zimzim urallala zimzim. How Lawrence, Kansas proclaimed “International Dadaism Month.”

 Fort Myers and London trade travel-safety put-downs.

 Saunders: I’ve become a prude and I don’t like it, though I do like your stumpy lumpy hump.

 Profile of a Muzak audio architect.

 Apply chemistry—or at least a chemistry set—to your kitchen.

 Oven door passed off as flat-screen TV.

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