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Headlines for 24 April 2006

New York’s currently: dreaming of square footage

 Evidence of torture and abuse found at Iraqi jails as recently as February—and stemming it is no longer a priority.

 Only a month into its control of the Palestinian Authority, Hamas is already internationally isolated, deep in debt, and in severe disarray.

 Bin Laden tape exhorts Hamas, Sudan to make war with the West; Hamas, Sudan say no thanks.

 New Orleans election may be decided along racial lines; with many black families still displaced, that means the city could have its first white mayor in almost 30 years.

 On strapping ads to sheep—are cows and horses next?

 Sixty-one-year-old man murdered in Brooklyn’s Prospect Park on Saturday afternoon.

 The new debate on lethal injection—is the pain removed, or only masked?

 Twenty years ago, the world’s worst nuclear disaster occurred at Chernobyl; photographs of what it’s like now.

 A man who can detect songs most people don’t notice is a watchdog for music publishers.

 Behind the technology of wah pedals.

  He often ordered two or three gin martinis first, so he was well oiled by the time the food came, and I always ordered the same thing: shrimp rémoulade, chicken Rochambeau and ambrosia.

 Naval Academy tired of losing at croquet, brings in the big guns.

 Transit workers’ leader Roger Toussaint gets ready for his 10-day jail term, wants to take along a book about the Irish Transport Workers Union.

 Video: “Dueling Banjos” tribute-of-sorts to hillbilly culture—many CBs on show.

 The three Long Island brothers who are the last members of Adolf Hitler’s paternal bloodline.

 Apparently giving up his former career as a bikini inspector, man poses as doctor, offers door-to-door breast exams—and locates two takers.

 Maldivian fishermen find drug stash, traffickers face death penalty, people afraid police are going to smoke it all up.

 Spain may bid “adios” to the siesta.

 DonorsChoose opens BloggersChoose, a way for bloggers to create donation challenges, and their readers to help fulfill them.

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