Headlines from April 18, 2013

This week, a marathon’s first-aid tents and a high school football field became triage centers.
As horrific as it was, the Boston Marathon bombing may not qualify as a terrorist attack for the purposes of insurance coverage.
Following trips to Sandy victims and Newtown, therapy dogs arrive in Boston.
Far from scoring a knockout, the gun lobby has given its enemies ample reason to get up off the canvas and fight back. #guns
Medical journal publishes research that says acetaminophen may help reduce existential angst.
Researchers identify a coelacanth gene that may point to how fish learned to walk on land.
Theft is a constant problem. Hotels are dispensing with minibars. #travel
On Games of Thrones, why House Tyrell is richer than House Lannister—you can’t eat gold. #tv
The fad of gourmet cupcakes—“the favorite greedy treat of the me generation”—is now over.
A young man wearing such a suit can confidently approach the other fellow’s girl. Cary Grant on style. #mensfashion
More tips in our men’s fashion series, starting with “Part 1: Suits.” #tmn
Twenty-one different book covers of The Great Gatsby. #books
A wonder home on wheels that even drives itself. From a 1975 issue of Playboy, the “land yacht” concept.
Mondrian-inspired portraits of bureaucrats. #photos
In Spain, activists use flamenco flash mobs to protest banks.
Giffords: Senators who chose the NRA against the people should be ashamed, but are not.
It wasn’t a mixed result. It was a one-sided result. Congressional reaction to the Senate’s rejection of background checks.
Despite his fight, Obama knew before setting out that gun-control legislation never stood a chance in hell of surviving the NRA’s money.
Massive explosion at a fertilizer plant in Texas injures dozens, kills an unknown number.
Remarkable: Every person wounded during the Boston attacks but found alive by rescuers will survive.
Those suffering from language isolation—in places like Guantánamo, for example—experience disorientation and a decline in their decision-making ability.
Patton Oswalt improvises an eight-minute filibuster about Star Wars for Parks and Recreation. #video
To fight America’s low fertility rates and the resulting problems—aging population, dwindling workforce, shrinking economy—we must embrace immigration. #opinions
Dallas middle-school student sees science project about organic food published in respected national science journal.
Food truck in Mexico City promotes “Canada’s Brand” with poutine, Alberta beef tourtière, maple-glazed Albacore tuna.
By the 1980s, there were barely 100 butlers in Britain, but thanks to recent booms in wealth, there are now at least 5,000.
How to flirt in the British Library, where it’s the unruliness of some patrons that enlivens the room.
See also: 1957 education film about “heavy petting.” #video
NBA ranks the top 10 dunks and plays of the 2012-13 regular season. #video
Animations based on quirky biology-related rhymes yield a euk with a uke on a cuc.