April 8, 2013: Afternoon
By The Morning News
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- Story of Nek Muhammad, enemy of Pakistan whom the CIA killed in exchange for access to Pakistan's airspace.
- New science teaching standards in the U.S. will include extensive lessons on human-made climate change; not so in the UK.
- Nicholas Lemann on the disappearance of America's environmental movement.
- Vast majority of American aid pledged to Haiti went directly to U.S. groups; 1% went to Haitian groups.
- Pandemic reporter offers tips and reliable sources for reading news about new bird flu.
- The Economist's obituary for Margaret Thatcher says what the world needs now is more Thatcherism, not less.
- Man attempts to break record of visiting all 270 London Underground stations.
- Basketball player breaks NCAA record of most points in a game and is celebrated by celebrities, also scorned for gluttony and poor sportsmanship.
- The Davis Cup, among tennis's greatest and rowdiest events, is generally played to very small audiences.
- People known as "Hathahaters" despise actress Anne Hathaway for being “so affected and actressy.”
- E.O. Wilson says great scientists don't need to be good at math.
- Carl Woese gave us the ability to inquire into deep mysteries of ecology, pathology, even the origin of life—and he should have won the Nobel.
- Ruined Polaroids become abstract art.
- Photographs of the landscape and residents along U.S. Route 23, between Asheville, N.C., and Johnson City, Tenn.
