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Headlines for 29 June 2006

New York’s currently: damp but not flooded

 Israel arrests 64 Hamas ministers, batters Gazan towns and sends message to Syria with a fly-by over al-Assad’s house.

 Palestinian gunmen claim to have killed Israeli settler.

 NBC makes best friends with YouTube.

 DaimlerChrysler to begin selling Smart cars in 2008.

 Russian President Vladimir Putin loves boy bellies.

 Bad behavior forces Kent State to ban student-athletes from Facebook.

 Worse behavior forces Pine Ridge Reservation to ban beer.

 Wimbledon is the only major tennis tournament with a prize gap, and Venus Williams doesn’t like prize gaps.

 BBC does its best “ay-yay-yay!” to announce that dominoes is now broadcast in the U.S.

 Only six percent of Americans are tracking the World Cup, but it’s still more popular than the NBA or NHL finals.

 World Cup pizzas currently available in Germany.

 Celebrating the tacos of Los Angeles.

 Twenty percent of U.S. organ transplant centers are found to be substandard (see list).

 Witold Riedel designed TMN’s summer shirts and they feature crows—get yours now!

 Iran on U.S. nuke talks: We don’t need no conversation.

 GOP may be unpleased about the recent Times reveal, but it’s happy to frame the response.

 Only the Wall Street Journal could disparage Buffett’s charity.

 Alan Colmes’s death goes unreported on Hannity & Colmes.

 Eight ways to kill someone with an iPod Nano, according to an ex-Marine.

 Ceci n’est pas une Powerbook.

 Video: For this weekend, how to open one beer bottle with another.

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