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Headlines for 7 February 2006

New York’s currently: diagnosing anyone who will listen

 White House releases D.O.A. budget.

 Danish Embassy in Tehran set on fire as worldwide protests over Danish cartoons rage.

 Attorney General and surveillance, blah blah blah; Sylvester Stallone and surveillance, hello!

 Thousands in Atlanta pay respects to Coretta Scott King.

 Gervais and Merchant to write an episode for U.S. Office.

 Judge orders wall built down center of Borough Park home in divorce of “millionaire sweater manufacturer.”

 Bronx Zoo plans to shut down elephant exhibit if (and when) any of the animals die.

 Find your way out of this pickle, MacGyver, and you could win a copy of Danny Gregory’s new book!

 Scientists say a “lost world” of animal and plant life has been discovered in an Indonesian jungle—still no dinosaurs, yet.

 Video: Are you a part of the new American coffee revolution?

 JT Leroy partners split, point fingers, work on movie; investigating John Banville’s The Sea to determine if it’s actually a memoir.

 Pioneer of the tortilla chip, Rebecca Web Carranza, dies at 98.

 Cold Center in Wales has steady stream of test subjects thanks to sickly students, though no word yet on whether their parents made it into the office yesterday.

 And there’s more: British scientists infect themselves with hookworm in the name of allergy research.

 Modern love is all about who likes the Taquitos.

 Signal from space suit set adrift is lost, then found again.

 Fascinating: Double-Tongued Word Wrester records undocumented or under-documented words from the fringes of English.

 Video: Episodes of The IT Crowd, comedy about the guys in the server room, from the creators of Father Ted.

 The 700 Club has advice for those of you with daughters who are “fascinated with vampires and other occult practices.”

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