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Headlines for Thursday, September 6, 2007

Afternoon Edition

Germany still seeking 10 men connected to yesterday’s foiled terrorist plot.

Discontinued use of anti-depressants believed to cause suicidal thinking is linked to… an increase in suicide.

Large percentage of New Jersey’s political elite arrested in federal corruption probe.

How Freddie Thompson knocked up success and wedded himself to politics.

Sen. Craig’s aides need to get their resignation stories straight.

Sen. Kennedy rolls over at vote 15,000.

Government spends 20 years restocking Colorado rivers with the wrong trout, three years discovering the mistake.

Jolly raunchy fun: English resort town cracking down on bachelor/bachelorette parties.

Oh, the inevitable irony of Pfizer computers sending out Vi@G3a spam.

Universities and credit card companies: often in bed together, occasionally fleecing you.

In today’s feature, Michael Y. Park makes a sportswriter out of you.

Can you solve the mystery of the “driver who should be dead but isn’t”? (The original photos.)

Related: How to detect Photoshop fakery.

The changing Brooklyn stoop sale: always good for a few columns of print, right?

Morning Edition

Luciano Pavarotti dies at 71 in Modena, his birthplace.

Diving into the web in search of Pavarotti’s greatest performances, finding gold.

The police managed to swap some of the tanks of hydrogen peroxide the suspects had gathered with tanks of a far lesser concentration. Incredible story of how Germany foiled a bomb plot.

Last month, an industrial solvent was mistaken for nerve gas at the U.N.

Last week, a B-52 flew nuclear missiles over the U.S. and nobody who needed to know knew.

Not all New York cabbies go on strike, not all New Yorkers notice the walkout.

The man who got “popcorn lung” popped up to three bags a day, inhaled directly from them.

Audio: Woman finds blood-sucking chupacabra roadkill, aims to use DNA testing to prove it, sells T-shirts.

In this week’s Mp3 Digest, Llewellyn Hinkes shows no love for Popeyes.

Archbishop Tutu suggests barbecues could help unify South Africa—he may be right.

From 1941, a map of the post-war world, including the United States of Europe.

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Video: Missing girl probably raped, Onion News investigates.

I’ve had a couple of writers liken this to when Rod Stewart made his standards records. That’s a very clueless statement.

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