April 4, 2012: Morning
By The Morning News
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- In Hong Kong, only 1,193 of seven million people are eligible to vote for the city's chief executive.
- Chinese newspapers and magazines have semi-secret rate cards for favorable coverage.
- Advancing a candidate for Egypt's presidential election creates a no-win situation for the Muslim Brotherhood.
- The Brotherhood reaches America in the form of a smiling 20-something women.
- Both Buddhism and neuroscience converge on a similar point of view: The way it feels isn’t how it is.
- Scientists find formula for memorable movie quotes: generic advice, unusual phrasing.
- NYC Dept. of Education tries to ban "dinosaur," "birthday," other "distracting" words from standardized tests.
- Breakdown of professors’ spending power, country by country.
- Ode to Peru's tower of food power, causa, combining mashed potatoes, avocado, and mayonnaise.
- Factual guide to everything you need to know about bourbon.
- Bamboo: The new birch.
- Seattle Times runs four-part investigation into Amazon's philanthropy practices, publishing wars, and worker complaints.
- Math behind why, in Copenhagen, one mile on a bike is society's $.42 economic gain, and one mile driving is a $.20 loss.
- Woman requests birth control from the tiny white man that the Republican Party has sent to live in her underpants.
- Found break-up note defines "fluffer" somewhat differently from the norm.
