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Headlines for 3 February 2006

New York’s currently: crushing on its mayor

 Militants issue threats, Muslim anger erupts over Muhammad cartoons—which newspapers continue to reprint.

 Q&A: Why you’re not supposed to depict Muhammad in a cartoon.

 Two car bombs explode in Baghdad market, killing 16 and wounding 90.

 Boehner beats Blunt every time.

 This has to be the end of this story: Libraries reshelve A Million Little Pieces under fiction.

 Bloomberg donates $100 million to stem-cell research.

 Under the new Hamas leadership, six women hold parliamentary seats, including Mariam Farhat, the “mother of martyrs.”

 Today’s MacGyver contest: Answer by noon and you could win you a copy of Danny Gregory’s new book, The Creative License.

 How to turn your bathroom into an office. Step one: Get a toilet trap for your BlackBerry.

 Staten Island school-bus driver—“the Emperor”—incites kids to turn to the dark side, beat up other children.

 Death metal and “Cookie Monster” singing, all news to Frank Oz.

 Russian military home to slave labor and horrific bullying.

 Met agrees to give up Greek vase in response to looting accusations.

 Video: Landlord Gloria Trembicky gets the Fox 5 treatment.

 Coyotes rule our city streets, but we never notice.

 Veins are the new fingerprints.

 In the summer of 1658, the appearance of a whale in the Thames at Greenwich gave rise to wide excitement.

 Troubling tales from emergency room docs.

 Spate of infections after door-to-door tattoo salesman visits apartment complex.

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