Don’t miss Newsweek’s cover story “Going Green,” currently on the stands and online. I’m taking Newsweek’s full-page photo of San Diego’s hydrocarbon-free dry-cleaning store to my own dry cleaner. He’ll probably say he can’t swing it, but I know the neighborhood would support him in such an effort. For a great explanation of trends in…

Yesterday, I took the Chattering boys (ages nine-and-a-half and 12) to see “An Inconvenient Truth,” the documentary about Al Gore’s lecture on global warming. Midway through, the nine-year-old began to sniff, wipe away tears, and then sob in great heaves as aerial views of various cities, including New York, were shown flooding one day in…

Oh, now we understand. An Italian lip reader seems to think that French World Cup captain Zinedine Zidane delivered that head butt because his Italian opponent had insulted the whole Zidane family, AND Zidane’s mother had recently received some bad medical news about which Zidane was still upset. The whole story is here. And there’s…

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