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Headlines for Tuesday, October 17, 2006

Innovative housing pitches for expensive homes include writing blogs, giving away a Maserati.

An ex-drug dealer and burglar leads a wheelchair posse terrorizing Southern California businesses.

Met Life agrees to sell Stuyvesant Town for $5.4 billion to investment group led by Tishman Speyer.

The world’s ugliest animals, ranked.

Video: Behind the scenes documentation of how to teach Glasgow to paint itself.

“Bodies” exhibit runs into trouble in Seattle for displaying dead Chinese citizens who didn’t give consent prior to expiration.

Governmental seams splitting as horrific bloodshed continues between Sunni and Shiite gunmen in Iraq.

Collision between two subway trains in Rome kills two, injures up to 250.

Number of pedestrians killed by hit-and-run drivers has jumped 20 percent since 2000.

In-flight fires are the fourth leading cause of commercial aviation fatalities.

Wal-Mart stands one billion-dollar step away from becoming the biggest foreign chain in China.

Wal-Mart might well be single-handedly responsible for bringing about 38,000 people out of poverty in China each month, about 460,000 per year.

Fuel in North Korea’s bomb was plutonium, not uranium; North Korea says this past weekend’s U.N. resolution is a “declaration of war.”

Starbucks baristas and customers go to war over whether the company should sell fewer sugar and calorie-stuffed drinks.

Is buying mp3s instead of CDs more environmentally friendly if you keep upgrading your iPod?

Op: Africa may have had the best week ever, but try mailing cash to the Global Fund instead of buying a new mp3 player.

Pop-art quilts by Ai Kijima.

The role of professor has gone from an earth-shaking, student-rousing myth to she who addresses lowered baseball caps.

British universities to be asked to spy on Muslim and “Asian looking” students for signs of Islamic extremism.

Diaries of a San Francisco sex slave (entries one, two, three, four).

The total number of recovered pairs of women’s thong-style underwear was 854.

Foodcandy: Where those urbanites who love food (but not so much as to be too fat for fancy jeans) can meet and get laid.

The backstory behind the incredible résumé of one Aleksey Garber (see YouTube video of miracles)

Video: Harvard sleep researcher Robert Stickgold interviews Michel Gondry about dreams.

You know what would be really cool? If instead of baby music you played Eminem. Thirteen-year-old’s tips for parenting.

Is contemporary teen dancing an evolution of the jitterbug, or only one step from events that happen on honeymoons?

Eighteen ways to appreciate death.

Las Vegas mogul Steve Wynn poked his arm through his $139 million Picasso. (Nora Ephron’s glad she didn’t do it.)

Tell-all sex book about politicians and their lovers captures French hearts.

Confessions of a bookplate junkie. See also, much love for Ludwig Mies van der Rohe’s “Glass House” apartment buildings in Chicago.

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