A MCCAIN VICTORY? Just remember when the turnaround started . . . .

CAN FRED THOMPSON turn it around?

DUCT TAPE, “SAFE ROOMS,” and Oak Ridge.

MR. CLEAN? A well-timed raise, a trip, and a rather lackadaisical approach to investigating Gov. Spitzer. (Via JWF).

TURKMENISTAN stops gas exports to Iran.

BAGHDAD ZOO is a draw again. “‘I feel safe here. I feel relaxed,’ said Hussein, 51, a taxi driver.” Sounds safer than the San Francisco Zoo.

NEW AIR-SAFETY RESTRICTIONS on traveling with lithium-ion batteries.

NANOTECHNOLOGY UPDATE: “A multidisciplinary team of UCLA scientists were able to differentiate metastatic cancer cells from normal cells in patient samples using leading-edge nanotechnology that measures the softness of the cells.”

MAJOR JOHN TAMMES: The training I felt uncomfortable about – and shouldn’t have. “I did take advantage of what the Army has taught me. Oddly enough, it was at home and not on a battlefield.”

THEY TOLD ME IF GEORGE W. BUSH WERE RE-ELECTED, campus student groups would be banned because of their unacceptable views on premarital sex. And they were right!

NEW FATALITY NUMBERS FROM IRAQ: Some people will be unhappy. But they’ll be the people who should be unhappy.