April 27, 2012: Afternoon
By The Morning News
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- Spanish unemployment hits new record high, and Spain gets its sovereign debt downgraded.
- South Africa's Kulula airline offers deal for polygamists, “Fourth Wife Flies Free."
- Research roundup on swearing—everyone knows how, but it still isn't becoming more frequent.
- Nature loves biological weapons, and we should research them more, not less.
- Japanese store's shopping bag doubles as a safety helmet in case of disaster.
- Windows crash into a German chapel—an installation by Baptiste Debombourg.
- New show by Ai Weiwei takes place in a 40cm by 40cm by 40cm cube.
- Myths about contemporary classical music debunked.
- 50 Cent on money, drug dealing, and only sleeping five hours a night.
- Elif Batuman on Mike Daisey and why he shouldn't have been publicly shamed by Ira Glass.
- On the "long and shameful legacy of racial bias among prosecutors in North Carolina."
- Profile of Romney's Karl Rove, Eric Fehrnstrom, who keeps advisors from crowing, among other things.
- How to stay married for the long haul.
- Longform looks over the top stories of the past two years and finds sad sports and sex.
- Related sad sports: Michael Jordan, greatest basketball player of all time, now owns the worst basketball team of all time.
- Related sex: Bon Iver Erotica.
