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Headlines for Monday, January 8, 2007

Evening Edition

Except for brief moments of duress, I haven’t touched a keyboard for years. No fingers were tortured in producing these words—or the last half a million words of my published fiction. Novelist Richard Powers talks to his computer.

Artist Carson Ellis breaks down and gets a blog; some previously unreleased work has been posted—more is promised.

New South Wales now requires a permit for fake guns; “replica firearm” border control to be stepped up.

Get your thoughts in order with A Periodic Table of Visualization Methods.

Must-see: Use those new skills to visualize zip codes.

The early portfolios of photographer William Eggleston, sometime Big Star pianist.

Florida is storing ice cubes at a cost of $900,000 per month, but will they expire before anyone buys them?

If you have any spare pesos, though, you might want to spend them on pizza in Texas.

Consumer-friendly Taser to be introduced.

Don’t worry, the world’s most beautiful woman doesn’t know who you are, either.

Roman Polanski: “While parking the car, he’d managed to run over Dr. Saperstein, our dog, named after the character in Rosemary’s Baby.”

Afternoon Edition

New York smells like natural gas today, but it could just be the odor that’s added to gas, not gas itself.

Austin’s Congress Avenue shut down over reports of dozens of inexplicably dead birds.

Record high temperatures prompt New Yorkers to ice-skate in T-shirts, the Polar Bear club to hold a moment of silence.

Oklahoma Senator wants us to know polar bears are not endangered, and there’s no reason to think they will be anytime soon.

UC Davis scientists find parallels between today’s climate changes and the ones that happened way back in the Paleozoic era—i.e., the last time the Earth got really hot.

ExxonMobil is upset over the Union of Concerned Scientists’ report on the company’s disinformation campaign.

Remember how the government can see your library records? Well, guess who’s reading your mail!

New York City teachers did more student-groping, tutee-inventing, and outright money-stealing in 2006 than ever before.

All the Scientologists want is little Astor Penswick to stay away from drugs.

In today’s Book Digest, Robert Birnbaum covers some of his favorites, including Robert Stone, Jim Harrison, Howard Zinn, and Francesca Woodman.

Once you get past the ads, you will never look at watermelons in the same way.

Morning Edition

Iraqi Health Ministry reports 5,640 civilian and police offer deaths in the first half of last year—and 17,310 deaths in the last half.

Wesley Clark: There have never been enough troops in Iraq—but now it’s time for diplomacy, not military surging.

U.S. commander in Iraq says even with troop increases, gaining the upper hand could still take another “two or three years.”

The stem cells—easy to harvest from the fluid left over from amniocentesis tests given to many pregnant women—were used to create bone, heart muscle, blood vessels, fat, and nerve and liver tissues.

NASA may have found life on Mars 30 years ago—and accidentally killed it.

Why you might not have jumped onto the tracks to save another’s life: your anterior cingulate is not like Wesley Autrey’s.

New Yorkers are surprised when their cell phones start ringing on the subway; their fellow passengers, not surprisingly, are annoyed.

In New York, you can wear this hat while you dumpster dive for $200 moisturizers on the Upper East Side.

Video: Kevin Guilfoile’s cousin runs 200M, screams to distract other runners, and wins not once, but twice.

Momofuku Ando, the inventor of instant ramen, passed away, age 96.

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