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...Seoul says security is its worry, particularly after the beheading of civilian translator Kim Sun Il in June. "Reporting the situation of troops moving to Iraq," says Defense Ministry spokesman Kim Jong Chan, "could give our information to terrorists." But the deployment is controversial domestically and the voluntary gag helps prevent the issue from becoming an even larger political football. "This is very close to media censorship," says Park Tae Jeon, editor in chief of Pressian, a popular online news site that has refused to accept restrictions. "If we go along with it, we won't be able to inform...
...Jordan" (Pantheon; 288 pages; $21) collects Mark Beyer's comic strip that ran in a select few alternative weekly newspapers during the early 90s. A tour de force of the form, it combines wild, fever-dream visions with dark, existentialist gag humor. Beyer takes all the clich?s of the traditional "laugh-a-day" strip and turns them inside out. The typically cute, bourgeois family of the dailies has been replaced by Amy and Jordan, a fear-filled, childless couple who live in a nameless city full of bugs, aliens, dirt and neighbors like Dame Head, who is just a head...
...thought of slurping a raw egg makes you gag, try easing your hangover with some prickly pear fruit extract. Researchers in?where else??New Orleans asked 55 volunteers, of ages 21 to 35, to get drunk and endure a hangover for the sake of science. Half the tipplers were given an extract of the prickly pear cactus plant before their binges; the other half were given a placebo. The following morning, people who took the cactus extract suffered significantly less from nausea, dry mouth and loss of appetite than those who got placebos. The latter group also had 40% higher...
...book reading at Barnes & Noble on the Upper West Side (81st and Broadway). The alliterative Harper’s editor Lewis Lapham plugs his new laundry list of liberal laments, Gag Rule...
...look a little closer: Don’t those names—Seymour Benjamins, Mo Bludfer-Oyle, Mona Polist—sound a bit off? Isn’t there the hint of a grin beneath their solidly plutocratic exteriors? And was that check a symbol or a big gag...