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Headlines for Friday, December 8, 2006

Evening Edition

The remarkable 26-year saga of awarding a Pulitzer Prize to an unknown Iranian photographer (see photos).

For the first time, more poor people live in suburbs than cities.

Trying the knot between the dilemma of conflict diamonds and that engagement ring on your wife’s finger.

They favour seal carcasses but will eat almost anything—one was found with an entire caribou in its stomach. Arctic sharks attack Quebec.

More Friday drink links than you can handle.

Just in time for your date tonight, the number for Milk & Honey.

Sarah Hepola embraces her nostalgic side for yesteryear’s videos in today’s Digest.

Wodehouse characters, drawn.

Winners and losers in today’s news.

Everything you—and artistic Norwegian strippers—need to know about photobooths.

Video of the amazing Time Fountain, in which dripping water moves in slow motion.

Someone actually created a program to detect cats walking across your keyboard.

Video not for cat lovers: Effect of Mescaline Analogues on Behavior of Cats.

Afternoon Edition

New York gains monitoring powers over out-of-state gun dealers

Op: Before engaging Iran, we need a plan, and we should figure out what it will cost us.

Republican switcher and former U.N. Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick dies at 80.

Jazz pianist and bandleader Jay McShann dies at 90; WKCR is doing an excellent all-day McShann broadcast.

Texas learns illegal immigrants aren’t one big money drain.

Virginia grade school celebrates the pagan history behind the holidays, reports WorldNetDaily.

Church Marketing Sucks: a blog to frustrate, educate and motivate the church to communicate clearly.

Number 16 in John Darnielle’s series “30 Short Poems About My Favorite Black Metal Band.”

Canada still loves more people than we do.

Polygamy debate rages in Indonesia, too, after popular cleric marries second wife.

The source for fertile Russian imaginations found.

Video: Sonic Youth’s “Schizophrenia” as sung by the elderly members of Young@Heart.

For classical-music dorks, and everyone else: hilarious trumpet bloopers.

Morning Edition

Bush prepares to pick and choose between Iraq Study Group recommendations; Baker urges him not to think of it as “a fruit salad.”

Amidst grandstanding, Senators also avoid the sour grapes.

Olmert: Linking Iraq and the Arab-Israeli issue is a case of apples and oranges. (Arabs disagree.)

Iraqi Shiite neighborhoods once ruled off-limits by the Shiite-dominated government now open to raids.

Nasrallah wants no strife, violence, or surrender on his way to getting a Hezbollah-happy government in Beirut.

Pelosi may ban smoking from the Speaker’s Lobby, but fears burning the Blue Dogs.

Manhattan’s smoking ban encouraged battle between the city’s mob families.

Thirty percent uptick in number of reservists who returned home from duty to find worse-off jobs.

Op: How the credulous American media has incubated the 9/11 conspiracy movement.

Free medical education in Cuba doesn’t include knowing what put Castro in the hospital.

Tastemakers reviewed by the artists they criticize.

How to write a “boomlet”—crafting seven thousand words out of thin, speculative air—for New York magazine.

People that don’t exist consume as much electricity as Brazilians.

Space cuisine moves beyond freeze-dried ice cream.

Instructions for Muslims in space.

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