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Headlines for 28 March 2006

New York’s currently: engineering less often than reverse-engineering

 Senate Judiciary Committee votes to legalize 11 million illegal immigrants.

 Mexican towns emptied of working-age men and women; $20 billion sent home last year.

 County testing wastewater to learn how many citizens are doing coke.

 How to sell faux Yale over the phone.

 Shiites say U.S. targeted their mosque and gunned down worshipers; U.S. claims a “highly successful” operation against insurgents.

 Philadelphia Eagle arrested for dancin’, dancin’ in the street.

 Only four out of 1.5 million people on espn.com predicted this year’s Final Four.

 MLA produces map of 30 languages spoken around the U.S.

 Neurologists suggest Judaism, Christianity, and Islam were products of altitude sickness.

 Georgia may become first state to require teaching the Bible as a textbook. (Are school reading lists becoming too trendy?)

 Bible comes in at number two after To Kill a Mockingbird as librarians’ must-read text.

 Rachael Ray’s new magazine taken to task.

 Today’s ToB action includes prog-rocker Nell James putting Nail Gaiman and Ali Smith in a box and shaking it!

 Sudden hole in Brooklyn eats SUV.

 Islamic couple, married for 11 years with three children, divorced after husband snores the magic word three times.

 Second Haitian skull dump discovered—voodoo or political unrest?

 Fun with YouTube: Leprechans, ninjas, CNN on fire.

 Gentler cybersquatters now form relationships with someday-celebrities.

 Pictorial atlas of the world. See also: a field guide to fascists.

 Superheroes on the toilet.

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