Archaeologists have found what they believe to be the site of the Library of Alexandria, often described as the world’s first major seat of learning. BBC NEWS: Library of Alexandria discovered.

New York Times: From Simmer to Boil for Alternative Rock Survivors — the Flaming Lips that is.

Seattle Weekly: Shameless Shaman featuring a couple of big jpgs from late Kesey's new jail journal.

Lowell Sun: 'On the Road' but not to Lowell.

Liverpool Echo: Magic mushrooms sold in city shop — "We handed the mushrooms to police." ....

Washington Post Book Report: American Nomads: Travels With Lost Conquistadors, Mountain Men, Cowboys, Indians, Hoboes, Truckers, and Bullriders.

Results Retracted On Ecstasy Study (washingtonpost.com)

Scientists at Johns Hopkins University who last year published a frightening and controversial report suggesting that a single evening's use of the illicit drug ecstasy could cause permanent brain damage and Parkinson's disease are retracting their research in its entirety, saying the drug they used in their experiments was not ecstasy after all.

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The top result of a google image search on ‘p2p art’:

Madonna has pulled the US release of her new video, which contained images of transvestite soldiers, Iraqi children and a grenade being lobbed at a lookalike of US President George W Bush. Australian Broadcasting Corp.

Texas prosecutors today agreed to throw out the convictions of 38 people, nearly all of them black, who faced drug charges based on the uncorroborated testimony of a white former undercover police officer. Washington Post

On Monday, March 31, the Los Angeles Times published a front-page photograph that had been altered in violation of Times policy. Editors Note, Los Angeles Times