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Headlines for 22 February 2006

New York’s currently: gagging on the in-box

 The port security hue and cry? Humbug. Hysteria. Hotdogging.

 Bureau of Land Management hampers its own biologists’ monitoring of damage caused by drilling on federal land.

 Ugandan opposition candidate runs his operation from jail.

 It’s a strange place for the post, but we must accomplish our duty. Delivering the mail in Iraq.

 Director puts up kidney as collateral for movie musical about North Korea.

 Updates from the world’s tyrannical outposts.

 Slideshow of TV’s aryan sisterhood (i.e., blond newscasters).

 Newspapers have learned to ooze love for the Oscars (and their ad pages).

 Inventor of the flash mob tells all.

 Op: Don’t expect big-government conservatism to last much longer.

 Across the West Coast, giant orange balls are disappearing.

 Doctor claims Washington’s smoking ban forces elderly smokers to take unnecessary risks.

 Nineteen Manhattan restaurants with private rooms, and nine tips for running more productive meetings.

 Night lights on Google maps. See also, real-time cloud patterns.

 Cartoon furor pits Muslim against Muslim.

 Facing faculty revolt, Harvard’s Summers to resign.

 The ho-ho-hoaxy conspiracy theory behind Pete Doherty and the KLF.

 Tracking They Might Be Giants as they write their venue songs.

 Videosift digs through YouTube and GoogleVideo so you don’t have to.

 Many versions of “Sabre Dance” will brighten your day.

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