New York’s currently: mostly lab directors
Shamil Basayev, Chechen child-killer, dies after truck explodes.
Analysis of the White House’s position now that everyone opposes its post-9/11 tactics.
Pentagon shifts policy: All detaineees in U.S. military custody are entitled to Geneva protections.
An astounding day of violence in Iraq.
Doctor suspected of blowing up his Manhattan townhouse was on the verge of losing it in a divorce.
Rise in identity theft tied to meth users.
Not a myth, rogue giant waves cruise the oceans seeking ships to destroy.
Studying the difficult-to-grasp “nocebo” effect, placebo’s evil twin.
Though force-feeding women is declining in Mauritania, many take pills to gain much-prized fat.
What it’s like to be the only black female sports columnist.
Man successfully ends quest to trade paperclip for a house.
Bureaucrats the world over have unhappy expressions.
PBS goes beyond bleeping curse words to blurring them.
Robert Birnbaum on the week in books, and Witold Riedel with some summer-y TMN T-shirts.
No Italian necessary to play the Zidane headbutting game.
Stories of deep poverty in upscale suburbs.
Space exploration can be about planetary domination, or it can teach us to wonder and be humble.
