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Headlines for Thursday, October 5, 2006

He actually came up with the idea to split Smith’s black gloves in the athletes’ lounge, so both at least had one to cover their fists. Peter Norman, the third man on the Black Panther podium at the 1968 Olympics, dies.

Russia could hang out with the cool kids at the WTO if it ditched that loser AllOfMp3.com.

From 1961, The Executive Coloring Book. Really—1961? Really really.

Tooling his legacy, Bush relegates unrest in Iraq to “a comma.”

U.S. military develops new counterinsurgency tactics, longs for conventional warfare.

As many as 1,200 Iraqi police have been suspended for suspected connections to kidnaps, murder of Sunnis, and will face retraining.

Hastert denies claims he knew Foley was chasing pages, asserts the existence of a liberal conspiracy.

Democrats on the campaign trail invoking the Foley scandal like they were Republicans invoking the Clinton scandal.

If we get nothing else out of Foley’s shenanigans, we will at least have this headline.

U.S. quietly hands control of troops in Afghanistan over to NATO.

Al Qaeda announces partnership with Algerian rebel group, promises the usual, specifically against France.

Nobody knows why it stinks in Malibu, and “Charlie Sheen” probably isn’t the answer.

TMN’s Kevin Guilfoile on experimental crime fiction and experimental shoes.

Giant marine dinosaur fossils inspire rad battle scenes by science illustrator.

Mrs. Potter said Mr. Pepper’s wife was unhappy. “She didn’t like me and she didn’t like whatever,” she said. “You know women.” The story of a Nash dealership in Brooklyn.

Raytheon thinks microwaving protesters is a good idea, or at least an investment-worthy one.

When you’re a funeral director in rural China, you’re going to see all sorts of things.

Reasons why you’ll never find the latest technology in the U.S.—and Denmark is already working on teleportation.

Homeless Brits on how they ended up selling newspapers.

Brits prove tea is a great stress reliever; Cubans say cigars and sex aren’t bad either.

Nicaraguans, in search of an answer to the margarita and the mojito, anoint a national beverage.

Peruvian women’s prison holds international beauty pageant. (Here’s a translation for non-French speakers.)

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