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Headlines for 19 May 2006

New York’s currently: constantly calibrating for marginally better outcomes

 Egypt resumes repression; State department “deeply troubled”; Bush hosts secret visit by Mubarak’s son.

 Iraq’s middle class doing everything it can to flee.

 Now that access is reduced to the minimum required, inspectors have few tools to gauge Iran’s nuke program.

 Senate votes English as the “national language.”

 Even Joseph Gannascoli doesn’t know how GaVito dies, but he’d like to keep paying his mortgage.

 Light-blocking smog over Indian Ocean suppresses global warming—what happens if the air gets cleaned up?

 Forests disappearing from the roof of the world.

 Today in TMN’s new Digest feature: Videos of the Week.

 U.S. should close any secret “war on terror” detention facilities, plus Guantanamo, says U.N.

 Novelist thinks people shrug 10 times more than they actually do.

 Airline ticket stub, nabbed from trash can, reveals wild amount of passenger info in 15 minutes.

 Alexandria, Egypt has the world’s worst theme park, Fantazy Land.

 McCartney and wife blame media for divorce; CNN effectively proves their point.

 Video: Game shows are better played in libraries.

 Decade by decade, the history of Archie comics shows a strong dislike for teen culture.

 Research suggests early humans got busy with chimps; some scientists have trouble imagining the coupling.

 Russian mothers prefer lack of second child to cash.

 Insider’s report from last night’s NYC Beard & Moustache Championship.

 Report with pictures from the third Dashanzi International Art Festival in Beijing.

 Heroic computer dies to save world from master’s thesis.

 4,512 Ph.D. students died to make blog about synthesis.

 Oak Island Treasure is dedicated to those who have lost their lives in the search for the elusive treasure of the Money Pit.

 Chef Masayoshi “Masa” Takayama tests 10 Santoku knives straight from the box.

 Video: 10 Things I Hate About Commandments.

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