April 4, 2012: Afternoon
By The Morning News
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- So far, no deaths reported from yesterday's tornadoes in Texas.
- Story of threats facing Georgia shrimpers, who once netted $130,000 fishing four months out of the year.
- Luxury watchmaker teaches pair of Sherpas his craft after they save his life on Everest.
- Macau, not Las Vegas, now the gambling's world capital.
- Yale's "monkey market economy" involves real monkeys making dumb decisions like real humans.
- How to write the great American novel.
- Dispatch from the 2012 Public Library Association conference.
- Kurt Vonnegut sends his sense of insult to a man who burned his books.
- Pictures of airplanes deliberately crashed and burned.
- On the differences between intelligence and mindset, and why IQ tests are stupid.
- New documentary dangerously oversimplifies link between bullying and suicide.
- James Cameron's only revision to the new release of Titanic was made at the behest of web-star scientist Neil deGrasse Tyson.
- Alice Kaplan on how Paris changed Jackie Kennedy, Susan Sontag, and Angela Davis.
- Early memoir by Kaplan, French Lessons, offered as free e-book.
