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Headlines for 6 March 2006

New York’s currently: preferring baby blue to royal

 Iran and U.S. trade threats over today’s vote whether to send Iran’s nukes to the U.N. Security Council.

 Two-thirds of Indians see Bush as “friend,” 72 percent say U.S. is a “bully.”

 Parental notification laws haven’t produced sharp drop in abortions—can technology break the abortion stalemate?

 Wal-Mart will stock emergency contraception Plan B, but won’t sell it if a pharmacist doesn’t want to.

 BBC news headlines classified according to mood.

 Investor designs his home to resemble Manhattan restaurants.

 2006 Tournament of Books brackets and judges announced! Start your betting pools now—hot Rooster action begins in two weeks!

 UNC grad plows into nine in Chapel Hill, allegedly to avenge maltreated Muslims.

 Cosby declines to be interviewed while his lawyers attack Waxy to have “House of Cosbys” taken down.

 Star maps measure Hollywood celebrities.

 Mexican police use literature to create better cops.

 Jerry Capeci on today’s mob versus the Sopranos mob.

 Understanding why copy editors, understanding why blankets.

 Costume designers hate the Oscars.

 Boy didn’t kill his girlfriend with a peanut-butter kiss, says coroner.

 Two-minute silence to commemorate terrorism victims not to be honored by head office, says British software firm.

 New Haven characters get their own trading cards.

 Whether the Simpsons unanimated or hardcore Natalie Portman, is YouTube doomed to become the next Napster?

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