Witty and inventive, a show house created to publicize the six original series in Showtime’s fall lineup is proof that designers do indeed have a sense of humor.

In Dexter’s Show House, Even the Chairs Are Bound

Taunia Elick has acquired and renovated 18 antique wood-frame houses, a number of which she’s moved to the nearly 4,000 acres she owns with her husband in an area north of Houston.

The House Collectors

Andrew M. Cuomo wants to know if Bank of America directors were misled or “little more than rubber stamps” for management.

Cuomo Is Said to Issue Subpoenas in Merrill Case

The proposed tax is billed as a way to fight obesity and provide billions for health care reform.

Proposed Tax on Sugary Beverages Debated

Analysts say President Sheik Sharif Sheik Ahmed offers hope for stability, but he needs to act against militants.

In Somalia, a Leader Is Raising Hopes for Stability

Beyond posing a distraction, the race issue could further strain the president’s broad but tenuous coalition.

As Race Debate Grows, Obama Steers Clear of It

The Obama administration wants Federal Reserve oversight, but the banks say their survival is at stake.

Citing Risks, U.S. Seeks New Rules for Niche Banks

In running for mayor of New York, William C. Thompson Jr., the city comptroller, has abandoned his quiet demeanor.

Quiet Leader Wages a Bold Campaign

President Obama on Thursday announced a reconfigured system that won’t be based in Poland or the Czech Republic, and will be aimed at intercepting Iranian missiles.

White House Scraps Bush’s Approach to Missile Shield

The recession runs through many of the new fall television series, but it’s like background noise.

Plot Lines for Hard Times

Whether a caper flick or a two-part biopic, each of Steven Soderbergh’s films is a hypothesis being put to the test.

Another Soderbergh Puzzle!

Jean-Marie Grenier and his wife, Jane, live in a former funeral home in Greenpoint, Brooklyn.

The Two-Story Conversation Starter

Some 85 new models made their world debuts at the Frankfurt auto show, from tiny electric concept cars and thrilling supercars to simple modles that aim to sell in the millions.

A Festival of Electrics, Exotics and Everything in Between

The newest diesel-engine cars could be the most realistic high-mileage solution for large passenger vehicles until other technologies are perfected.

Nonstop Travel in First Class, on Diesel

In addition to banning flash orders, regulators are also seeking new limits on the credit rating industry.

U.S. Proposes Ban on ‘Flash’ Trading on Wall Street

In this novel about a bioengineered future world decimated by plague, Margaret Atwood retells her 2003 novel “Oryx and Crake” from new perspectives.

Strange New World

“The Informant!” is a smart, cynical movie about how we buy now — oops, I mean, how we live now.

A Corporate Culture Cornfed on Greed

A family of funds uses a kind of arbitrary pricing that the S.E.C. threw out in the 1960s.

The Go-Go Years, Revisited

Medical journals are being pressed to adopt tougher disclosure policies on industry-financed research.

Medical Editors Push for Ghostwriting Crackdown

Continuing layoffs on Wall Street drove the city’s jobless rate to a 16-year high in August.

Unemployment Hits 10.3% in New York City

LyondellBasell, the chemicals company, is offering bank lenders the chance to buy extra stock in a rights offering as it exits Chapter 11.

A Deal to Soothe Senior Creditors

An article on Tuesday about the sale of a house next door to President Obama’s home in Chicago misstated the name of a dog that lives there and misidentified her owners. She is Rosie, not Roxy, and she belongs to the tenants of the property’s carriage house — not to the owners of the property for sale, Bill and Jacky Grimshaw.

Corrections

An article on Tuesday about the annual meeting of the Central Committee of China’s governing Communist Party misstated the committee’s size. It has 204 members, not “2,000 or more.”.

The Beijing Journal article on Monday, about the raucous street merchants of Beijing, misspelled the name of a Qing Dynasty emperor said to have favored the kind of singing caged grasshoppers hawked by one merchant during the summer. It is Qianlong, not Qianglong.

An article on Saturday about the future of Gov. Bill Richardson of New Mexico misstated the ancestry of one of the two American journalists recently released from prison in North Korea. (Mr. Richardson played a minor advisory role in their release.) Laura Ling is Chinese-American — not Korean-American, which is the ancestry of Euna Lee, who was also released.

Richard Durock was an American actor and stuntman who appeared in over eighty films and over seven hundred television episodes. He played the DC Comics superhero, Swamp Thing, in both the feature films Swamp Thing (1982) and The Return of Swamp Thing (1989), and the 1990-1993 Swamp Thing TV series. He stood an imposing 6'6".

Dick Durock, American stuntman and actor (born 1937)

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Noordin Mohammad Top was a Malaysian-born terrorist & extremist. He was also referred to as Noordin, Din Moch Top, Muh Top, Top M or Mat Top. Until his death, he was Indonesia's most wanted Islamist militant.

September 17, 2009

Headlines from September 17, 2009

In Dexter’s Show House, Even the Chairs Are Bound

The House Collectors

Cuomo Is Said to Issue Subpoenas in Merrill Case

Proposed Tax on Sugary Beverages Debated

In Somalia, a Leader Is Raising Hopes for Stability

Billboard 200

I Look To You

The Time Of Our Lives (EP)

Ready

Bang! Pow! Boom!

Breakthrough

Notable Deaths

Historical Context for September 17, 2009