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Headlines for 8 February 2006

New York’s currently: seduced, annually, by the Caribbean ads on the subway

 Conservative Japanese leaders very happy to hear Princess Kiko is pregnant.

 Roadblocks in the mongoose-cobra peace process.

 Massive study finds no link between low-fat diets and preventing heart attacks, strokes, or breast or colon cancer in women.

 U.K. jails “epitome of Islamist extremism” Abu Hamza for seven years; U.S. to seek extradition.

 Record sleeping pill sales in the U.S.—up 60 percent since 2000—have experts worried side effects aren’t known.

 You may be a bad emailer because you can’t empathize.

 Fourteen ways to be a better emailer.

 Four die in Afghan cartoon riot.

 Iran’s largest newspaper holds international competition for Holocaust cartoons.

 And: Iranian Commerce Ministry calls for renaming Danish pastries after a flower named for Muhammad.

 Which religions endorse illustrations?

 Op: What Westerners don’t get is that Muslims take this personally.

 Speed-reading techniques.

 Mp3 blog Moistworks hosts writers week, with Jonathan Lethem, Sam Lipsyte, and others posting favorite songs.

 Bush’s head speechwriter is a lot more compassionate than conservative.

 Chance that a Briton has bought a book “solely to look intelligent”: 1 in 3.

 U.K. to cover U.S.’s ass aid by funding safe abortions in developing countries.

 Someone is burning Alabama churches, and it’s the ATF’s number-one priority to find out who.

 Only you, MacGyver, can save the world and win a copy of Danny Gregory’s new book.

 Eighty-six evangelical Christian leaders, including Rick Warren, decide it’s time to fight global warming.

 Hungarian director makes his last appearance at his own funeral.

 There is always something unmotivated about conversion experiences. J.M. Coetzee on Gabriel García Márquez.

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