Pravda is now using smaller paper
NEW YORK Over the years, The New York Times has tended to think big, but tomorrow it will have to adapt to a new smaller-is- beautiful era.
In a front page note to readers this morning, the paper stated that the print edition they will hold tomorrow will be decidedly more compact.
Beginning Monday, the Times “will reduce the width of its pages by an inch and a half,” to a 12-inch standard, the paper declared.
“The move will cut newsprint expenses and, in some printing press locations, will make special configurations unnecessary. Slight modifications in design will preserve the look and texture of The Times, with all existing features and sections, and” — it admitted at the end — “somewhat fewer words per page.”
“somewhat fewer words per page.”
One can only dream.
But Happy Birthday Crusader!
(yeah, I know they’re the same pictures I used last year. So sue me already)
Someone(s) launched a private sub into the east River today, and the police are not amused
New York- WABC, August 3, 2007) – Several people are being questioned by police after being stopped apparently attempting to set sail off Brooklyn in a makeshift submarine-type vessel.
Police say the men were caught in the area of the Brooklyn Cruise Terminal in Downtown Brooklyn, near the Queen Mary 2, just after 11 a.m. this morning
No threatening devices or materials were found on board the vessel.
The initial indication is this is not terrorism related.
Authorities say they were in a large barrel put together as a type of makeshift “submarine-type vessel,” complete with oxygen tanks.
Officers responded to the area, found the men and are questioning them. Their intent was not immediately clear.
I mean if you’re going to test out your new toy don’t do it near the Queen Mary 2, for gosh’ sake
CBS) NEW YORK A strange-looking submarine was spotted Friday near the docked Queen Mary II, and NYPD Harbor and SCUBA units arrested three people for questioning.
The vessel, with one person inside, and an inflatable boat carrying two people, were spotted near a security zone around the luxury ocean liner docked at the cruise ship terminal in Red Hook, Brooklyn.
It was not clear what the people were doing in the vessels, but police said there was no indication that the incident was related to terrorism.
The sub, piloted by a Greenpoint man, came within 100 feet of the luxury cruise liner.
How very odd.
Update: Via Lawhawk it looks like these guys were just old sub enthusiasts…and that the Coast Guard has pulled them over before.
…and I’m not talking the cyclonic kind.
Forecaster lowers year’s hurricane prediction
…“We’ve lowered our forecast from our May predictions because of slightly less favorable conditions in the tropical Atlantic,” said Philip Klotzbach, a member of Gray’s team at Colorado State University.
“I invented hurricanes and I’ll say when we get more or less. Got that, Gray guy?”
…in more ways than one. The headline for this piece…
NYC Health Officials Move To Get Babies Off Bottle
New Campaign Launched To Deter Use Of Formula
…started the eye rolling, but dang if it isn’t the little things tucked into the article that just make ya cringe.
…Kim Williams-Mann breastfed her daughter for five years, and doesn’t agree with the ban.
Dear GOD.
Media | Mr. Bingley | 
August 6, 2007 7:28 am | 
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