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Headlines for 18 May 2006

New York’s currently: not walking through that bunch of pigeons

 A peace treaty could clear the path toward new nuclear talks between North Korea and the U.S.

 Hamas deploys Palestinian security force—a move Abbas vetoed last month.

 Conflicts between Taliban fighters and police in Afghanistan take a sharp rise.

 U.S. soldiers in Iraq will begin using laser devices at checkpoints to temporarily blind suspicious drivers.

 “Virtual fence” of surveillance technology to be assembled at U.S-Mexico border; real, 370-mile-long fence will also be built.

 After 13 years and $24 billion, China’s dam on the Yangtze River is now the largest hydroelectric flood-control structure in the world.

 The final chromosome in the human genome has been sequenced—here’s what that means.

 Tired of being kicked around and unappreciated, fast-food empires start slinging at Fast Food Nation.

 It’s like Netflix for wine: Introducing Cork’d, the social network for wine lovers.

 Video: How J. Robert Lennon writes his novels.

 By addressing eye fungus one region at a time, Bausch & Lomb fueled its own scandal.

 “Today’s really a good day to be a millionaire, but it’s a bad day if you want to be a millionaire.” Bush approves embattled tax cuts.

 Inflation is up, the Dow is (way) down, and the economy’s growth party got crashed by “an uninvited drunken uncle.”

 We have a winner in our “Sloppy Seconds With Opal Mehta” contest! Bonnie Furlong and “The Parlourmaid’s Tale, or, MS in a Dustbin.”

 Of course, all of gentrified Brooklyn is somewhat similar. It’s mostly white. It’s mostly partial to some form of indie rock. The war between Park Slope and Williamsburg.

 Coming soon: Neptune-class planets you can live on, possibly.

 Learning to draw: today’s lesson—salt shakers and pepper grinders.

 The capital-markets division of Barclays Plc could be the Red Hot Chili Peppers; chaotic in the 1990s, gained some focus in the early years of this decade. Matching banks to bands.

 Tracking the trend called Morrissey.

 Video: 37 short Fluxus Films (1962-1970).

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