As scandal tarnished Martha Stewart's all-too-perfect image, it also wreaked havoc on her market valuation:
Combatting the problem of overweight children, one doctor was pushing diet pills for kids, just like mother
used to take. With apologies to the Rolling Stones:
When a report claimed that the arid southwest was more fertile ground for meeting good single men,
our columnist disagreed, claiming that the Big Apple has the world's best men:
As part of a borough-wide weight-loss effort, Brooklyn residents collectively lost 82,000 pounds:
Moody "Tomb Raider" actress Angelina Jolie revealed that she once planned to commit suicide by hiring
a mob hit man to come and rub her out:
Usually the top editors of the paper write the front-page headlines but once in a while they ask around for ideas,
as they did on Christmas night, when a heavy snow produced the first white Christmas in almost three decades:
As the Taliban fell and Afghan men were again able to go beardless if they chose:
As airport screening became more stringent, passengers were required to take off their shoes to prove they weren't hiding anything nefarious there:
Also in Afghanistan, two American "relief workers" (actually evangelists) were arrested for trying to convert Afghans to Christianity.
They were welcomed as heroes when released, and appeared with the president amid speculation about how much they could get if their
story were made into a TV movie. That left:
A New York mob informant was put into witness protection and went straight, earning the local kids' affection
as a sports coach. This all-American success story meant that:
Always willing to tweak a celebrity in a moment of weakness, we publicized Jennifer Lopez's failure
to show up in New York as her clothing line was released:
When the Olympics came to Salt Lake City, so did an unaccustomed amount of alcohol imports. Suppliers cranked up for the
upcoming event and European countries even declared
their facilities diplomatic zones so they could avoid the state's severe liquor laws. Clearly, the event was changing
the state's conservative way of life:
Finally, some of the best lines appear in small type on picture captions. During the running of the bulls, we got
a picture of a human taking a tumble but it was also true that:
And during the debt crisis in Argentina, the country installed an unstable succession of different presidents,
including this one receiving the sash of office from a legislative official: