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Headlines for 22 June 2006

New York’s currently: trying to tan indoors

 Congressmen making too much money too close to their earmarked projects have investigators sniffing for corruption.

 Pentagon distributes 74-page briefing book to Congress offices to show them how to spin the war in Iraq. One way: Say WMDs have been found.

 Iraq’s Interior Ministry reports dozens of factory workers—many thought to be Shiite—were abducted from buses north of Baghdad yesterday.

 Seven Marines, Navy medical corpsman charged with murder of Iraqi civilian.

 Teenagers with backpack air monitors prove going outside really is good for you.

 Summer camp directors ask campers to not blog about sneaking out after lights-out.

 How the Taliban reemerged, and what’s gone wrong in Afghanistan—a checklist.

 A list of fictional expletives.

 Photos: Before and after Katrina in southern Mississippi.

 Ms. Sedaris lives in a small apartment in the West Village with a collection of plaster meats, a few stuffed squirrels, books on skin disorders, some plastic layer cakes…

 Welcome to the Esther Mason Dinosaur Museum.

 It’s been a messy business since Sneha Philip went missing Sept. 10, 2001 in Lower Manhattan.

 Hollywood unhappy with 12-minute bootleg version of Oliver Stone’s World Trade Center.

 Al Qaeda reveals identity of 20th hijacker, terrorism expert likens the move to a B-grade crime movie.

 We’re at 450 gay animal species—and still counting.

 Uncounted members of endangered giant panda species found living in wild, too cute for captivity.

 “Earworms” are the songs you can’t get out of your head; here are the most infectious, and ways to eradicate them.

 Radiohead fans smoke expensive smelling weed.

 Home makeover shows would prefer you not display the Rodin.

 Rowdy Roddy Piper finds out They Live… on the internet.

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