The Benedictine nuns at the Abbey of Regina Laudis are using music, drama and other art forms to help support their monastery, which this year quietly turned 60.

Nuns Pursue the Arts, With Ex-Actress’s Lead

She wasn’t always mellow when encountering fauna that lived near her home.

‘Our’ Hill? Right, Say the Mice

Decisions about interrogation videotapes were prompted by fear about what the public might think, officials say.

Tapes by C.I.A. Lived and Died to Save Image

Ten knowledgeable New Yorkers are asked to envision the city of 2108.

The World of Tomorrow

A team of card counters imitates Ben Mezrich’s best seller, “Bringing Down the House.”

A Strategy Up Their Sleeves

Bruce Tria’s morning show, “The Dawn Patrol,” delivers a style of local radio that is nearly extinct on Long Island.

Radio, With a Side of Bacon

In losing to the Patriots, the Giants supplied their most electric performance of the season, marked themselves as a true championship contender and lost a few starting players to injuries along the way.

Giants Give It Their All, But Lose Players Along Way

No one knows whether Mike Huckabee’s approach to the Republican presidential primary will succeed much beyond Iowa.

Shake, Rattle and Roil the Grand Ol’ Coalition

In a sports year unlike any other, 2007 too often meant scandal and sadness rather than success.

Breaching the Field of Play, Sports Tumbled Out of Bounds

My list of favorite cars is a reflection of America: there’s a growing class of millionaires, a widening blue-collar class at the low end, and a middle class that is disappearing.

Cars Rock, but Stickers May Shock

Toyota flexed its muscles in the factory and on the racetrack, but General Motors made the strongest showing over all in 2007.

Giant Rises, and Shines

The machine that minted a long string of big-name stars, from Snoop Dogg to OutKast, has broken down. What happens now?

The Shrinking Market Is Changing the Face of Hip-Hop

Modern fears dissuade many from visiting the old “Arabia Felix,” but they miss superb architecture, a beguiling culture and stunning vistas.

Yemen’s Exotic Secrets

The Qaeda network accused by Pakistan’s government of killing Benazir Bhutto is increasingly made up not of foreign fighters but of homegrown militants.

Local Militants in Pakistan Add to Qaeda Threat

In New Jersey, the debate about drug-free school zones has surfaced again.

Drug War, Minus Signs, Persists

Urban sellers who might otherwise have stayed put are taking shrewd advantage of the price disparity between city and suburbs.

Cashing Out of New York City

The state is looking to a new source to help crack down on bars and restaurants suspected of serving alcohol to patrons who are already intoxicated: drunken drivers.

More Than a Traffic Stop: Tracing the Last Drink

When renters have to vacate their current apartment quickly, they often face high costs for the options they have.

Renters Report Being Stymied by Cost and Supply

The turnout effort among Democrats has exploded into the most ambitious and costly in the history of Iowa’s caucus.

Candidates Digging for a Deeper Pool of Iowa Voters

There are many ways in which celebrities and other noted figures ruined their images and livelihoods in devastatingly public fashion in 2007. 


A One-Way Ticket to Disaster

Federally owned lands are being transformed into the new playgrounds, and battlegrounds, of the American West.

Surge in Off-Roading Stirs Dust and Debate in West

My year in cars was colored — or juice-splattered, more accurately — by becoming a father.

Tot Tested, Dad Approved

Ensemble performances of a rare order are glowing brightly on stages across the theater district.

Plays Well With Others

The National Audubon Society’s 108th annual Christmas bird count, which runs through Jan. 5,  is in full swing across the region.

The Binocular Brigade

Thirty-two courthouses across the state have established children’s centers over the last decade.

December 30, 2007

Headlines from December 30, 2007

Nuns Pursue the Arts, With Ex-Actress’s Lead

‘Our’ Hill? Right, Say the Mice

Tapes by C.I.A. Lived and Died to Save Image

The World of Tomorrow

A Strategy Up Their Sleeves

Billboard 200

Noel

As I Am

Long Road Out Of Eden

NOW 26

Christmas Song

Historical Context for December 30, 2007