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Is Eli insanely underrated, or justunworthy of the $106.9 millionhe’ll make over the next sevenseasons?

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Bowl MVP two seasons ago tothe goat in last season’s earlyplayoff exit. He’s just 3-4 all-timein the playoffs, hardly in TomBrady or Ben Roethlisberger ter-ritory. Yet, Manning now makesmore than both of them.

Sure, he’s been solid, just notspectacular. And bland. Stableand bland, though, may be justwhat the Giants need. For a teambattling off-field distractions,such as the Plaxico Burressshooting, Manning is a welcomeface out front. METRO

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Former top cop resignsLos Angeles Police Chief Bill Bratton, former top copin New York City, announced yesterday that he isstepping down. Bratton, 61, oversaw the NYPDduring a period of steep crime reduction in the mid-90s. He is joining a global security firm. METRO

Car free path for bikersBrooklyn gets a new protected bike lane for ManhattanBridge riders: Bicyclists now have a car-free path alongSands Street from Navy to Jay streets on the way to thebridge, which has seen an 80 percent jump in daily bikecommuters over the last four years to 2,232. METRO/AZNews

new york02 Boat collision A cargo ship rammed a speedboat, sending its four passengers into the Hudson River early yesterday. The passengers aboard the40-foot speedboat were rescued by nearby boaters after the collision with the 250-foot freighter, which did not have any lights on. METRO/JY

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NEW YORK. Some Wednes-day morning rush hour rid-ers at Manhattan’s 86thstreet 4/5/6 station discov-ered their monthly Metro-Cards had stopped work-

ing, due to the fact they’dbeen purchased beforeJune’s fare hike. Yesterday,was the last day unlimited30-day MetroCards pur-chased for the pre-hikerate of $81 could be used.

A crowd of angry subwayriders mobbed the stationattendant’s booth, which

soon ran out of prepaid en-velopes available for com-muters to mail in their oldMetroCards to receive aprorated refund from theMTA, the New York Post re-ported on its Web site yes-terday. An MTA spokesmandisputed the notion thatthe agency had failed to

prepare commuters for theevent.

“There’s signs up inevery station and on theWeb site,” said spokesmanPaul Fleuranges.

The MTA raised fares andcut services on June 28 tohelp cover a $1 billionbudget deficit.

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Wrong-way wreck suit

Lawyers for the family oftwo men killed when adrunk and high Long Islandwoman drove the wrongway down a Westchesterhighway said they aresuing her relatives.

“Any person who was

aware that she was drink-ing is an accomplice,” Bas-tardi family attorney Irv-ing Anolik told reportersyesterday. “She didn’t justwake up one morning witha drug problem and capa-ble of drinking that muchalcohol.”

Anolik, who plans to filea civil suit, said DianeShuler would have beencharged with second-de-

gree murder had she sur-vived the crash that killedher, her daughter andthree nieces. She crashed

into an SUV carrying Guyand Michael Bastardi andtheir friend Daniel Longo.All three died.

A toxicology reportfound Shuler, 36, had ablood alcohol content of0.19 — more than doublethe 0.08 legal limit — andshe had smoked marijuana15 minutes to an hour be-fore the crash. A vodkabottle was found in hercar.

Her husband, DanielShuler was expected to holda press conference today.

Victims’ family members say family of drunk driver must have known

“We would never knowingly allow ourdaughters to travel with someone whomight jeopardize their safety.”Warren Hance, brother of Diane Shuler, whosethree daughters died in the crash

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Charges filedagainst LIRRpassengerNEW YORK. A passengerwho allegedly operated acity-bound LIRR train lastmonth, and the engineerwho let him, surrenderedyesterday morning.William Kutsch, 47, andengineer Ronald Cabrera,40, face reckless endanger-ment charges and couldeach serve up to a year injail if convicted. Cabrerawas also charged with offi-cial misconduct. Police arestill investigating the rela-tionship between the twomen. METRO/JYRoerich’s “Talung Monastery”

Police search fordaytime art thiefNEW YORK. Police yesterdayasked for the public’s helpin catching a brazen artthief who grabbed twosmall paintings from thewalls of the NicholasRoerich Museum on West107th Street on twoseparate days in late June.

The institution is devotedto Roerich, a Russian bornpainter who died in 1947.Museum Director DanielEntin noted that the Russ-ian art market “has beenbooming.” He roughly esti-mated the paintings’ valueat $30,000. METRO

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News in briefBROOKLYN. Police are offeringa $12,000 reward for informa-tion on the gunman who killedan 87-year-old woman. AnnaSurman was apparently caughtin the crossfire when an armedman fired three shots at anoth-er man he was chasingthrough Surman’s Surfside Gar-dens complex. METRO/JY

ALBANY. The state Senate is ex-pected to vote to extend may-oral control of the city’s publicschools today. Mayor MichaelBloomberg has credited thecentralized structure forimprovements in student per-formance. METRO


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NEW YORK. Federal prosecu-tors in Manhattan yester-day charged the head ofthe city’s carpentersunion and nine otherunion officials with takingbribes from employerswho paid less than unionwages.

“They took cash andother bribes to turn ablind eye on contractors’schemes to cheat therank-and-file,” said FBI As-sistant Director in ChargeJoseph Demarest, Jr.

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trict Council of Carpen-ters and Joiners in NewYork has been under lawenforcement scrutiny forsome time due to connec-tions to organized crimefigures and have operatedunder a court-appointedmonitor for several years.Union president MichaelForde was acquitted ofbribery charges in 2008.

In May, Mayor MichaelBloomberg’s re-electioncampaign announced theunion’s endorsement ofhis third term. METRO

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A piece of the world’s largest beaded mosaic of President Barack Obama being installed as part of

the “Big Picture Project.” The project, a brainchild of the Swedish company Munkplast, was created

by 1,000 fourth-graders, is made up of 375,000 beads and measures 9 feet by 11 1/2 feet.

Limits backedon Great LawnMayor Michael Bloombergcontinues to fight protest-ers at the 2004 RepublicanNational Convention, evenafter reaching an out-of-court settlement turningback limits on the use ofCentral Park’s Great Lawn.

The battle was reignitedthis week by an independ-ent review supporting thecity’s 2004 lawn limit of

55,000 people. The reportdraws on an assessment bya former city official, RobertRusso, deputy Parks com-missioner from 1981 to ’89.

The limit was quietly putinto place just before theRNC, denying permits to an-tiwar demonstrators in or-

der to preserve the grass,the city said.

“Two weeks ago, MayorBloomberg gave a speech to80,000 people on the GreatLawn before the New YorkPhilharmonic,” said lawyerMara Verheyden-Hilliard,who represented an Arab-American group that wasdenied a permit to hold arally during the RNC.

"This study does nothingto help them on constitu-tional grounds,” she said.“We reserved our right toreturn to court.”

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News in briefQUEENS. A building worker waselectrocuted to death inQueens yesterday morning. Po-lice believe William Barrett, 27,was electrocuted while replac-ing shingles on the roof of ahome before falling two stories.The shock caused Barrett to en-ter cardiac arrest. METRO/JY

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www.metro.usBirth control weight gain Women who quickly put on pounds after starting birth-control injections seem to be at risk of significant

long-term weight gain, a new study suggests. The contraceptive is called depot medroxyprogesterone, or Depo Provera. REUTERS

Freed American journalists return to U.S.,families after months detained in N. KoreaTwo American journalistsfreed by North Koreatearfully reunited withtheir families in the UnitedStates yesterday while theObama administrationtried to squelch talk of abreakthrough inWashington’s ties withPyongyang.

President Barack Obamasaid he was “extraordinari-ly relieved” at thewomen’s return, butinsisted the way for NorthKorea to improve relationswith the United States wasto give up nuclearweapons and stop itsprovocative behavior.

The release was securedby former President BillClinton in a meeting onTuesday with reclusiveleader Kim Jong Il, thefirst high-level U.S. contactwith North Korea in nearlya decade.

Despite the mission’ssuccess, the drama under-lined the fine lineWashington treads toavoid rewardingPyongyang after repeatedmilitary provocationswhile trying to coax it intogiving up its ambitions ofbecoming a nuclear-weapons power.

Laura Ling, 32, and EunaLee, 36, reporters for anAmerican cable televisionventure co-founded byClinton’s former vice pres-ident, Al Gore, arrivedwith Clinton at Burbankairport near Los Angelesaboard a private jet fromNorth Korea. REUTERS

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Obama vows topass care reformWASHINGTON. Despite pollsshowing growing publicdoubts about his healthcare overhaul, PresidentBarack Obama vowed onyesterday to get a reformbill through Congress thisyear even without Repub-licans on board. “I promiseyou, we will pass reformby the end of this year be-cause the Americanpeople need it,” Obamasaid. “We’re going to haveto make it happen.” REUTERS

PTSD raises vets’heart disease riskNEW YORK. Veterans whocome home from Iraq andAfghanistan with post-trau-matic stress disorder andother mental healthdiagnoses are hit with adouble whammy: They alsohave greater risk factors forheart disease, according toa report in the Journal ofthe American Medical Asso-ciation. Given the timeframe of the recent wars,the authors of the study didnot look at heart attacks orother events, but examinedrisk factors for heartdisease instead. REUTERS

Web page paints pictureof a lonely, sad murdererPITTSBURGH. The man whofired bullets indiscrimi-nately into an exerciseclass in Bridgeville, Penn.,on Tuesday, killing threeand then turning the gunon himself, had kept anonline diary since late2008 lamenting his terri-ble luck with women —“No girlfriend since 1984”— and planning his killingspree, The Associated Pressreports.

George Sodini, whoneighbors describe as quietand anti-social, kept a de-tailed online journal of hisself-deprecating thoughts.“Flying solo for many yearsis a destroyer,” he wrote onDec. 29, 2008. “Wo men

just don’t like me.” The blog listed Aug. 4,

2009, as the date of Sodi-ni’s death, and made anote of his relationship sta-tus: “Never married.” “Ichickened out!” he wroteon Jan. 6. “I brought theloaded guns, everything.Hell!”

Police are looking intowhether anyone had readSodini’s words before hecarried out his crime. METRO

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NEW YORK. The two freed re-porters requested throughtheir families in mid-Julythat Bill Clinton be sent togain their release, an Oba-ma administration officialsaid. Communication withrepresentatives of theNorth Korean governmentwas needed to “manage thelogistics,” Hillary Clintonsaid in an interview withthe NBC News “Today”show yesterday morning.

Clinton said her hus-band’s trip was separatefrom the Obama adminis-tration’s policy on NorthKorea.

“I want to be sure peopledon’t confuse what Bill did,which was a private hu-manitarian mission to bringthese young women home,with our policy, which con-tinues to be one that giveschoices to North Korea,”Clinton said. “They can con-tinue on the path they areon, or perhaps they will

now be willing to start talk-ing to us within the contextof the six-party talks aboutthe international desire tosee them denuclearized.”

The administration toldthe North Korean govern-ment that Clinton’s visitwould be a private, hu-manitarian mission uncon-nected to other issues be-tween the two countries.Clinton met with Kim JongIl for about an hour and 15minutes. BLOOMBERG

Women’s freedomwas trip’s only goal

The Obama administrationsaid it had not offered anysweeteners to North Korea inits nuclear standoff with theWest in return for its releaseof the journalists, though asenior U.S. official said Clin-ton did talk to North Korea’sleadership about the“positive things that couldflow” from freeing them.

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Laura Ling speaks after arriving home yesterday while Bill

Clinton, left, Al Gore, and fellow journalist Euna Lee look on.

Freed U.S. journalist Euna Lee, left, embraces husband Michael Saldate and daughter Hana, as

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Iran’s Ahmadinejad sworn inTEHRAN. Mahmoud Ah-madinejad was sworn in asIran’s president yesterdayin a ceremony boycotted byreformers and marred bystreet protests. The hard-lin-

er took his oath of officenearly eight weeks after adisputed election that un-leashed the worst unrestsince the 1979 Islamic revo-lution. REUTERS

Two nuclear-poweredRussian attack submarineshave been patrolling in international waters offthe Eastern Seaboard ofthe United States in a raremission tracked by Washington, U.S. officialssaid.

Pentagon spokesman

Bryan Whitman said themilitary was “mindful” ofRussian military activities,but he declined to com-ment on any specific sub-marine maneuvers.

Another official familiarwith the intelligence,speaking on condition ofanonymity, said: “Alarmbells are not ringing.”

The New York Times,which first reported thepresence of the vessels, de-scribed them as Akula-class submarines.

Akula is the NATO code-name for the Soviet-de-

signed Nerpa, which hasbeen in service since themid-1980s. They are armedwith torpedoes, cruise mis-siles and can carry under-water missiles.

One of the Russian sub-marines remained in in-ternational waters onTuesday about 200 milesoff the coast of the UnitedStates and the second submade a port call in Cuba inrecent days, the Timessaid, citing Defense De-partment officials whospoke on condition ofanonymity. REUTERS

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Russia conducted a successfulsea trial of the Nerpa lastmonth in the Sea of Japan, ac-cording to RIA news agency.During testing of the subma-rine last November, 20 peopledied and 21 were hospitalizedwhen the fire extinguishingsystem released a gas that as-phyxiated the victims.

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NEW YORK. The religious be-liefs of college studentscan be affected by theirchoice of major, accordingto a new study from theUniversity of Michigan.Those who choose tostudy humanity’s social re-lationships are more likelyto decrease their religiosi-ty — the term used by thestudy authors — whilethose who seek to teachincrease the fervor of theirbelief. METRO

Presex cigaretteburns ex-firemanMIAMI. A retired firemanand his wife accidentallyburnt down their houseduring an intense love-making session, the Sunreports, when a precoituscigarette ignited their Mia-mi, Fla., home. Joli Lowell,56, who uses a wheelchair,says the pair didn’t realizewhat had happened untilit was too late. “I couldn’tbreathe and my husbandhad to pull me out beforemy lungs collapsed,” shesaid. METRO

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Recession of the sexes:Women shop; men cryThe desire to sport a differ-ent handbag for every occa-sion is shielding the largestmakers of luxury leathergoods from the economiccrisis as women prove to bemore consistent spendersthan men.

Louis Vuitton and Hermesbags are still amongst themost sought-after luxuryproducts compared withweak demand for watches,

a traditionally male-domi-nated sector.

Gender marketing ex-pert Diana Jaffe said theuncertainty about jobscaused by the economicslump posed a threat to

male identity, promptingmen to cut back on spend-ing. Meanwhile, womenare taking steps to cheerthemselves up with a treat.

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Banks, insurers and assetmanagers have slashednearly 400,000 jobs world-wide since the credit crisisstarted to intensify in Au-gust 2007, hitting luxuryretailers who cater to theprofessional classes. REUTERS

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Britain: No moresex in the bird hideLINCOLNSHIRE. TheLincolnshire Wildlife Trusthas reminded British bird-watchers that their hidesare to be used for “quietenjoyment only,” the Tele-graph reports, after a spateof complaints regardingloud sexual acts in the un-locked structures. METRO

PHILADELPHIA. A Pennsylva-nia woman claiming objec-tum sexuality — a medicalcondition that causes a per-son to become physically at-tracted to inanimate objects— plans to marry a magiccarpet carnival ride, whichshe fell in love with at age13, the Telegraph reports.Amy Wolfe, 33, claims to

have courted the 80-footgondola ride some 3,000times in the past decade. “Ilove him as much aswomen love their husbandsand know we’ll be togetherforever,” she said. Wolfesaid she will change hername to Weber, in honor ofthe manufacturer of the“1001 Nachts” ride. METRO

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Car manufacturers are all inthe race to go eco thesedays, and now even theworld’s armies are gettingin on the act.

Making military transporta-tion greener is a no-brainer— as nations’ economiessuffer, their equipmentneeds to be more efficientand cheaper to run. Fuel-ef-ficiency is key when troopsare deployed in remote des-tinations, and fuel needs tobe shipped in. But even justfueling the vehicles thatrun the tanks is a logisticalnightmare, points out PaulSkalny, Director at the US

Army’s Tank AutomotiveResearch, Developmentand Engineering Center:“In many cases, 70 percent

of the bulk tonnagewe take to war is fu-el.”

This spring the

TARDEC showed off a col-lection of eco-friendly mili-tary vehicles to CaliforniaGov. Arnold Schwarzeneg-ger, including a diesel-elec-tric hybrid that gives thecar up to six miles of silentmobility.

The US Army isn’t the on-ly one to go eco, though;other armed forcesare thinkingahead, teamingup with civil-ian compa-

nies to develop more eco-logically sound ways oftransporting their troops.The British Army is fundingprojects that include plansto reduce operational de-pendency on fossil fuels.

Out are the diesel-guz-zling tanks and jet fighters,in are hybrid vehicles —even solar-powered ones.The idea for the FutureProtective Vehicle is to

make them more light-weight but as strong

as currentbattle vehi-cles. And hy-brid tanks

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tage of a silentand stealthy transit.

The world’s military forces are jumping on the eco-friendly bandwagon

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Computer renderings of new models for the UK’s Ministry of De-

fense special protected vehicles include fuel-efficient design.

Sony looking tochallenge KindleNEW YORK. Sony Corp. willbegin selling this monththe cheapest digital bookreader for the UnitedStates, heating up the com-petition with Amazon.comInc. in the small but fast-growing market forelectronic readers.

Sony plans to start sell-ing its 5-inch-screen Read-er Pocket Edition at $199— which it called a break-through price — and alarger touchscreen readerfor $299, through nation-wide retail outlets. REUTERS

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When news broke lateTuesday night that PaulaAbdul would not bereturning as a judge onthe ninth season of“American Idol,” most of

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at the Langham Hotel in Pasadena,

Calif. for the an-nual TelevisionCritics Associa-tion summerpress tour.Abdul shocked

us all by confirm-ing her departure

on Twitter: “I’llmiss nurturing all

the new talent, but mostof all being a part of ashow that I helped fromday 1 become an interna-tional phenomenon,” shewrote.

Fox soon responded in astatement, saying thesinger was “an importantpart of the ‘American Idol’family over the last eightseasons and we are sad-dened that she has decid-ed not to return to theshow.” The announce-ment came on the heels ofKara DioGuardi being con-firmed as a returningjudge, joining Simon Cow-ell and Randy Jackson fora second season.

I was eating dinner witha number of TV scribeswhen we first learned ofthe news, and our friendAndy Dehnart of Reality

Blurred.com got the exclu-sive scoop from an em-ployee at Fremantle, theshow’s production compa-ny, that Abdul wasn’tasked to return after de-manding a $20 millionsalary.

On the effect Abdul’s ab-sence will have on theshow, perhaps TV Guide’sSenior Writer Damian Hol-brook summed it up best:“Losing Paula takes awaysome of the water coolerfun of the show, becausemore than even some ofthe performances, it’s hercrazy talk we all remem-ber and rehash the day af-ter,” he said. “Plus, thejudges’ table needs the bal-ance of her sweet ram-bling comments forRandy’s canned critiquesand Simon’s mustache-twirling villainy.”

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Last week, one of our nation’s most enigmatic,controversial and influential figures passedaway. Rev. Frederick J. Eikerenkoetter II, betterknown as “Reverend Ike,” died at the age of 74.Ike, one of America’s first major televangelists,

is largely remembered for drawing millions of Ameri-cans into his “gospel of health and wealth” thatpromised material success for true believers.Although Reverend Ike has faded from the publicconversation in recent years, his impact on Americanreligious life has undoubtedly endured.

Over the past few decades, many American preach-ers have gained national prominence by offering theirown updated versions of Reverend Ike’s gospel of pros-perity. Some, like Creflo Dollar and Fred Price, flashexpensive clothing, jewelry and cars with the recklessabandon of a Top 40 rapper. Others, like Joel Osteen,operate as life coaches whose scriptureless sermonsare more devoted to selling self-help products thanpromoting righteous living. By reducing social miseryto a lack of faith, these preachers reinforce the tiredconservative argument that the problems of the poorare largely self-inflicted. They also promote the neo-liberal belief that all social problems can be resolvedby expanding capitalism and increasing consumption.As a result, these churches displace traditional narra-tives about collective struggle, sacrifice or redemptivesuffering with demands that the poor “get right” withGod by accumulating things for themselves.

Unlike Reverend Ike, today’s cadre of prosper-ity preachers are not on the margins ofmainstream Christianity. Instead they arebecoming leaders of a mainstream churchmovement that has grown increasingly un-

responsive to the social conditions of its members. Oneof the more disappointing examples of the New BlackChurch’s profit-driven cowardice came in January 2005when President George W. Bush spoke to the First Bap-tist Church of Glenarden, a mega church in Maryland.Pastor John Jenkins, an affirmative action advocate, re-fused to publicly challenge the president’s stance onthe subject because he considered it inappropriate totake a stand against the president’s policy from thepulpit. By eliminating protest from the church’s agen-da, except for when they’re echoing Republicantalking points regarding so-called “moral issues,” theseleaders effectively strip the church of itstransformative potential while enhancing their ownearning capacity. In the wake of Reverend Ike’s death,we must confront the possibility that many churcheshave gained the whole world but lost their souls.

Marc Lamont Hill is associate professor of education and African-American studies at Columbia University.

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Self-mummified monks; ahouse built of paper; amuseum filled with thegenitals of every knownmammal. The world is fullof breathtaking places nobody has ever heard of.

“Dylan and I both travel of-ten, and anytime we do,we’re always on the look-out for the sorts of weirdplaces that are left out oftraditional guidebooks andare ignored by the averagetourist,” says science jour-nalist Joshua Foer, 26,speaking of himself andhis friend Dylan Thuras, al-so 26. So they launched At-lasobscura.com, which fea-tures such destinations.

“If you live in Massachu-setts, you might know thatthere’s an incredible 70-year-old house built entire-ly out of paper in the townof Rockport. But if you’revisiting Massachusetts forthe first time, how are yougoing to find out about it?”

adds Thuras. Some other wild and

weird travel destinationshighlighted on their site?At Spain’s Gomera Island,residents use a “whistlinglanguage” with a vocabu-lary of 4,000+ words. TheCzech Kostnice OssuaryBeinhaus is a churchdecked out with humanbones. For culinary pleas-ures, try Austria’s Starken-ber Beer Myth Resort,which offers the world’sonly beer swimming pools,

or visit Paris restaurantDans le Noir?, where din-ers eat in total darkness,served by visually im-paired waiters.

In a genuine emergency,when you have no cash orpassport on hand, whatwould you do?

Make copies of pass-ports, credit andATM cards (front and

back) and driver’s licenses.It’s easier to get them re-placed if you have a copy.

Know your bank’spolicies. Can yourbank mail you a re-

placement cardimmediate-ly? Does ithavebranchesor officesin the coun-try whereyou’ll be traveling?

Know the numberand location of thenearest U.S. con-

sulate, which you will haveto visit in person to get atemporary replacementpassport in the event thatyours is lost. It’s usuallypossible to get an emer-gency passport within 24hours.

Know about theAmerican CitizensServices, part of the

U.S. Department of Statethat helps U.S. citizenstraveling abroad. Everyconsulate has an ACS de-partment, which can helpyou reach someone backhome in an emergency andeven act as a conduit soyou can have money wiredto you.

Get travel insurance.They can help youwith an emergency

cash transfer or can findthe nearest consulate or anEnglish-speaking doctor;the company will evenhelp you rebook flights ifyou miss a connection.

Always have a secretstash on hand. Keepa $100 bill or $100

traveler’s check separatefrom your other moneyjust in case.

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The Gates of Hell - Derweze,TurkmenistanA giant hole in the KarakumDesert that’s been burningfor four decades

The Paper House - Rockport,Mass.A 70-year-old structure builtentirely out of paper

The Iceland PhallologicalMuseum - Husavik, IcelandA museum filled with thegenitals of every knownmammal in Iceland

Don Justo’s Self-Built Cathedral - Mejorada delCampo, Spain

A huge cathedral single-handedly built by an eccen-tric ex-monk

Musee Mecanique - SanFranciscoAn incredible collection ofautomatons and mechanicalorchestras

Bochnia Salt Mine -Bochnia, Poland Poland’s oldest salt mine hasnearly everything one needsto live underground forever.

Mini-Paris - Vaissac, FranceA miniature model of theCity of Lights built out ofgarbage

Siriraj Medical Museum -Bangkok, ThailandAn incredible anatomicalmuseum

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The race is onYankees eye first win in season series, Sox eye first place

The heat is on the Red Soxto recapture first place.The pressure is on the Yankees to win a gameagainst their biggest rival.

Despite the Yankees’ 0-8record against Boston thisseason, it’s the Yankeeswho are in first place inthe ultra-competitive ALEast. The Bombers hold ata 2 ½ game edge going in-to the four-game show-down that begins tonightat Yankee Stadium.

While the Yankees havethe small edge in thestandings, the pitchingmatchups appear even.

The Yankees seeminglyhave the edge tonight andSaturday with Joba Cham-berlain and CC Sabathiaopposing John Smoltz andClay Buchholz, respective-ly. The Red Sox appear tohave a slight advantage Fri-day and Sunday with JoshBeckett and Jon Lestersquaring off against A.J.Burnett and Andy Pettitte,respectively.

The Bombers will try tomaintain an edge offen-sively by packing a left-handed lineup againstSmoltz and Buchholz.

Left-handed hitters havehit .403 off Smoltz in sev-en starts. Five of thosegames were against sub-.500 teams, so the Yan-kees’ lineup, which is sec-ond in the majors in runs,should do some damage.

Meanwhile, lefties arehitting .366 off Buchholz.

While those are poten-tial problems for the RedSox, Beckett and Lestercould stifle the Yankees.

Beckett is 9-4 lifetimeagainst the Yankees; 6-2 inhis last nine outings, in-cluding six innings of one-hit ball in Boston on June 9.

Lester is 3-0 in six career

starts against the Yankeesand two of those wins havebeen in the Bronx.

“We’ve got over 100games to go,” Yankees out-fielder Johnny Damon said

after their last meeting.“Our day will come.”

That day is today andthis is first of 10 meetingsdown the stretch that like-ly will decide the AL East.

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Tonight Yankees vs. Red Sox, 7:05 (MY9)

On the mound: John Smoltz — 2-4, 7.12 ERAAllowed five runs and eighthits in six innings for his sec-ond victory last Friday inBaltimore … Has allowed 50hits in 36 2/3 innings as amember of the Red Sox ...Longest outing of the sea-son is six innings ... The

42-year-old right-handeris 0-0 with a 4.50 ERA intwo career starts againstthe Bombers.

On the mound:Joba Chamberlain — 7-2,3.58 ERA ... 3-0 with a 0.83ERA in his last three startsafter correcting a hitch inhis delivery … Was giventwo extra days off to ensurehe would start in this seriesand to help keep him to anunspecified innings limit.… 0-1 with a 4.09 ERA intwo starts against theRed Sox this year ... Struckout 12 Red Sox May 5 butalso allowed six runs.

Boston holds an 8-0 edge over the Yankees this year. Here arethe most lopsided season series in the last 50 years:

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YESTERDAY’S GAMESYankees 8, Blue Jays 4

Rays 6, Red Sox 4

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Niese latest injuryas Mets top Cards

MLB. On a day when thetalk should have beenabout another muscularperformance by a suddenlyrevived offense, the focusinstead shifted to morefelled bodies.

Only the Mets.Starting pitcher Jon

Niese tore his right ham-string in yesterday’s 9-0win over the St.Louis Cardinals.Niese, who leftthe game after1 2/3 inningswill have sur-gery and is outfor the season.

Niese covered first dur-ing an attempted 3-6-1double play in the secondinning and stretched to re-ceive a throw from short-stop Angel Berroa. Follow-ing the play, he threw awarm-up pitch, promptlycollapsed and had to becarried off the field.

“When he went to firstbase, he said he kind ofstretched it a little bit and[said] he was OK,” managerJerry Manuel said.

Gary Sheffield joined inon the hamstring train,straining his while round-ing first base in the sixth.The 40-year-old, who hadjust returned from the dis-abled list, is listed as day-to-day.

While Sheffield expectsto be back, Jose Reyes maynot. Reyes, who hasn’tplayed since May 20, flewto New York yesterday tohave specialists examinewhat was termed “differ-ent” pain in his injuredhamstring. The Mets short-stop has significant scartissue and inflammationbehind the right knee,which has caused contin-ued pain. He will remain inNew York for manual phys-ical therapy in an effort tobreak up the scar tissueand reduce the inflamma-tion, the team said.

“It’s been a difficult timefor us,” Manuel said.

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FANTASY FOOTBALL. You knowwho doesn’t think aboutWeeks 15 and 16 on draftday? Losers.

If you expect to be in theplayoffs and competing towin leagues, you will wantto have good matchups atthe end of December.

How can you know whatthe good matchups will beby then? It’s often saidtraining camp is too earlyto predict how good anNFL defenseis goingto be.False!

Overthe lasttwo sea-

sons, the top 10 defensesin the league (yards pergame) only has one newteam (Minnesota). Therewas a little more fluctua-tion at the bottom of thebarrel, but the usual sus-pects were there.

So we can make edu-cated guesses.Pittsburghisn’t suddenlygoing to goswiss cheese

on us, whilethe Lions and

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TOP MLB PICKUPS OF THE WEEK

Brian Matusz,SP, BAL — Topprospect in O’ssystem had verynice debut.

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Each week leading up to thefootball season, we’ll identifythree sleepers to keep on yourradar before your draft:

1Patrick Crayton, WR,Cowboys

— Forget MilesAustin. Craytonwill win the No.2 job and be asure-handed tar-get for Tony Romo.

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— News brokethis week thatThomas is ex-pected to startat the Z spot ac-ross from Santana Moss.

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Camp injury watchNFL. In a shockingdevelopment, Saints RB ReggieBush limped out of practiceyesterday with asore left knee. Itdoesn’t soundserious, but it’sjust a precursorof headaches tocome if you draft the explosiveBush.

cause he has a better play-off schedule. If you can’t de-cide between McFaddenand Ray Rice, though, theschedule should give youyour answer. It’s all aboutgiving yourself the bestpossible chance to win thechampionship.

So with that knowledgein mind, here are the fivedefenses we are trying toavoid playing: Pittsburgh,Baltimore, Tennessee,Washington and New Eng-land. Here are the five weare targeting: Detroit,Cleveland, Denver, NewOrleans and Kansas City.

Use the chart above ondraft day and you’ll thankyourself when Week 15rolls around.

TARGET AVOID1. CARDINALS

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15: vs. Vikings 16: @ Giants

1. BEARS

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