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Headlines for Tuesday, May 8, 2007

Afternoon Edition

In Iraq, government tensions ease after averted walkout, civilian tensions rise after bomber kills 16 in a residential neighborhood.

Six Islamic militants living in the U.S. charged with plotting a deadly attack on Fort Dix in New Jersey.

Graph: Presidential approval ratings put in perspective.

A British view of the Queen’s White House visit.

Op: In today’s political debate, the windbags have been replaced by sound-byte baboons.

Best not to complain about the American government when Taiwan’s frequently comes to blows.

Video: Russia’s duma, of course, does brawling best.

A history of nudie mags, starting at “bifurcated girls” and ending with a Penthouse snorkler.

Belarusian movie posters capture stars at their best.

When the government prohibits microfiltering, French camembert producers give up raw milk and tasty cheese altogether.

Nokia finds women miss calls because of overstuffed handbags, Ugandans love cell phone covers. (Read the report here.)

D.C.’s Newseum is nearly, expensively here.

Today in history: Formula One’s Villeneuve drove to his death, Gary Hart got caught in some monkey business.

The Aesthetic Apparatus Deviant Sex Act Fabricator.

Morning Edition

Europe says if Wolfowitz goes, it won’t contest the tradition of the U.S. picking the World Bank president.

Petraeus says by September we’ll know if troop increases have worked; Congress wants a progress report in the fall.

New leadership in Northern Ireland shares power between “sworn and bitter enemies.” (Graphic: “The Troubles”)

A star 150 times the size of the Sun explodes in the largest supernova known to be observed.

Music fans irked when professionals enter their favorite bands’ video-making contests.

Man quits paying mortgage, goes on spending spree, then learns his life-threatening tumor was misdiagnosed.

Judge who sentenced Paris Hilton to jail is “amazed at the amount of publicity.”

Now that’s a Zombie Round: Time Out NY’s book brackets pit Flannery O’Connor in the “Contemporary/Post-1970” category.

Who picks those lists of “best places to live?” Bert Sperling, who lives in Portland and Depoe Bay, Ore.

She takes aim at the target and fires away, her bracelets jingling at each pull of the trigger. Floridian ladies take to the shooting range.

Think tank advises that we can reduce global warming by having fewer babies.

Baby Stalin was no less sweet or adorable as babies who did not grow up to be dictators.

Linda Avery and TMN’s David Leite win 2007 James Beard Award for Leite’s Culinaria.

Islanders off Papua New Guinea fuel their cars with coconut oil.

Travelers should expect flying to become even more uncomfortable and more costly with each “innovation” unveiled by the industry.

TODAY’S FEATURE

Pilgrimage

Many people hope to be authors, even some in the publishing business. JESSICA FRANCIS KANE goes back to a monastery to see both sides of the story.

DIGEST

The Chicagoan

The Second City citizen’s eponymous magazine, which initially ran from 1926 to 1935, is revived in the form of a well-produced, well-illustrated coffee table book.

Cause and Effect

What’s the Point of Giving Thanks?

Matthew Baldwin investigates the grand tradition of gratitude.

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