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Headlines for Monday, October 9, 2006

In 1994 we took our traditional pilgrimage to 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.

Alcoholism treatment centers—now for anyone who wants a vacation from public scrutiny.

Lock the doors: Gothamist’s NYC news map confirms danger everywhere.

Beautiful transsexuals.

Thirteen-year-old fires AK-47 into school ceiling—most likely not in protest of Columbus Day.

Gallery of Robert Gibbings’s striking wood engravings.

Video: How Hussein Chalayan made dresses that don themselves. (Background here.)

Britain considers writing itself one of those whaddaya-call-ems—constitutions.

Indian primary school dries out, now much less vomiting after recess.

Full Wikipedia rundown of South Park’s World of Warcraft episode shows fan obsessiveness at its finest.

Advice for when you deploy to Iraq; not mentioned: bring your own water harvester.

Seven years after warning energy officials of the dangers of ethanol, the former head of refining at Chevron is CEO at Archer-Daniels Midland, and wants you to put corn in your tank.

Color Palette generator designs better web sites, bathrooms, outfits.

Today in Digest: Robert Birnbaum on books about news.

North Korea announces underground nuke test—seismic reports substantiate the claim.

Analysis: Now that Pyongyang is a nuclear contender, decision-making in Washington is a lot more clear-cut.

Republican congressman one-ups peers, says he’s known Foley was sending dirty messages since 2000.

But as far as culpability in the Foley case… House Republicans may benefit from the evangelical conception of sin. Trying to predict how conservative Christians will vote—not the easiest thing.

Midterm elections are presidential hopefuls’ cotillions, so where are our front-runners?

Imagining a Democrat-controlled Congress; both sides of the aisle question whether impeachment has made the agenda.

No more lines at the salad bar now that a popular brand of lettuce has been recalled over E. coli concerns.

City Opera IDs web, Netflix as competitors, drops ticket prices to $20.

Claiming she was the victim of state-sponsored fraud, mother wants to un-adopt son.

Louisiana woman sues to re-adopt dog sent north after Katrina.

U.N. taps YouTube in search for anti-poverty spokespeople, gets fart jokes instead.

Fappiano… had prior arrests for rape but was never convicted. Brooklyn man released from prison 21 years after wrongful rape conviction.

Real ways to save real bookstores: liquor licenses, self-imprints, and wealthy shoppers.

Steve Carell’s new movie smites budgets, is on its way to becoming the most expensive comedy ever.

Kalmykian president supports chess, buddhism, contact with extraterrestrials, and not so much democracy.

Elsewhere in Russia, hired killers stalk the streets.

The Biology of B-Movie Monsters

Male contraceptives make progresses, though still a problem with “back pressure.”

TODAY’S FEATURE

Iggy Pop Lusts for Life

More than four decades into his career as a rock mentor, Iggy Pop chats with PATRICK AMBROSE about getting back with the Stooges and finding a daily rhythm that suits him.

DIGEST

When it comes to things, what thing is best? This video provides an introduction to the extensive studies conducted by the Counter-Intuitive Comparison Institute of North America. Think more about the things that you surround yourself with.

My Incredulous Face

Holiday Travel Hell

Nicole Pasulka compiles tales of horror from the TMN writers.

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