Tuesday Jan. 25, 2010

• Suicide bomber in Moscow airport kills dozens. … ’ “They pushed them away on baggage carts,” ‘ said Aleksei Spiridonov, who works at an auto rental booth a few yards from the site of the blast. ‘ “They were wheeling them out on whatever they could find.” ‘
• Rahm Emanuel wasdisqualified from running for mayor of Chicago. …”He believed that his biggest challenge would not be proving his legal residency, the associate said, but clearing the field of potential challengers and overcoming some liberal critics.”
• A Prime Minister backed by Hezbollah is set to over in Lebanon. … “Acrid smoke billowed into a nighttime sky, as barricades temporarily blocked some roads into Beirut before security forces dispersed the demonstrators.”
• A New York City woman admits to a 1987 kidnapping. … “Ms. White has told relatives that she has long suspected that the family that raised her was not her own. But it was only this month when Ms. White turned to a Web site of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, that she discovered a photograph that matched an infant photo of herself.”
• Winter has been colder in the Northeast than in parts of Northern Canada and Greenland. … “Iqaluit, the capital of the remote Canadian territory of Nunavut, had to cancel its New Year’s snowmobile parade.” 
• More funerals are being streamed online.
• A Brooklyn man is in the business of creating twisted, real-life adventures for people.
• Wine grapes have insufficent sex.

Saturday, Jan.22, 2011

New York Times

• Coming off a strong showing in the midterm elections, Republican lawmakers are pushing for anti-abortion legislation. …”Oklahoma last year adopted a requirement that doctors or technicians perform the procedure with the screen visible to the woman, and explain in detail what she is seeing. The measure is under court challenge… .” 
• Former CIA spy Duane Clarridge is running his own private spy outfit. Among other things, he’s trying to prove Hamid Karzi is a heroin addict, going so far as…”to even finding a way to collect Hamid Karzai’s beard clippings and run DNA tests.” (Mark Mazzetti)
• People in India are being killed for filing information requests. … “Amit Jethwa had just left his lawyer’s office after discussing a lawsuit he had filed to stop an illicit limestone quarry with ties to powerful local politicians. That is when the assassins struck, speeding out of the darkness on a roaring motorbike, pistols blazing. He died on the spot, blood pouring from his mouth and nose. He was 38.” (Lydia Polgreen)