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Headlines for 12 June 2006

New York’s currently: a stone fox

 Iran accepts parts of the Security Council’s nuclear offer, but wants further clarification on issues surrounding uranium enrichment.

 Details emerge on how three Guantanamo prisoners committed suicide without guards detecting it.

 One of the detainees was set to be released, but had not yet been notified.

 Everybody must be glad Zarqawi’s dead—including, in fact, Osama bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri.

 Newly noted books from Robert Birnbaum in today’s Digest.

 Testing taxi integrity, undercover agents discover that acting like a tourist more than doubles your fare from JFK.

 Cab driver passes out while speeding down West side, causing wreck that kills one of his passengers, injures the other three.

 Due to poor ticket sales, the Dixie Chicks are changing more than half the dates on their upcoming tour.

 Video: Cecil Dill and his musical hands.

 Options for the office-bound World Cup fan.

 Were the slides taken by a dermatologist or plastic surgeon or were these young women part of some now forgotten experiment.

 Wal-Mart wants to sell fair-trade coffee, probably wishes it didn’t sell fake Fendi.

 Young-adult novelists revise character’s lip gloss in cross-marketing deal.

 Students who want to take a break from studying can’t relate to classmates hopped up on smart pills.

 “Incentivized jobs” and other lengths to which recent grads will go to pay off hefty debts.

 Mp3: Find out if you can hear the ring tone only kids—and some teachers, as it turns out—can distinguish.

 Scientists say babies are not actually sickly little things.

 The new name for rage is “intermittent explosive disorder,” and it makes road rage look like a picnic.

 Video: How Frank Silva became Bob in Twin Peaks.

 That’s a lot of Heinies: Men must drink 17 beers to benefit from its prostate-cancer-fighting ingredient.

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