Headlines from March 28, 2014

Note: TMN is on vacation until Monday, April 7, 2014. See you then.
Profit model of American drug manufacturing leads to shortages of basic medicines, like IV fluid.
Scientists and engineers agree with Greenpeace that humankind will ultimately need a grid driven by renewables. Future for energy is renewables + “clean coal.”
New Mexico’s arid climate is bad for most crops but good for pecans, which take years of patience to harvest.
There are 100% more women in the Senate than there were when Anita Hill testified in 1991.
Poetry—or the understanding of poetry as a wiser voice—plays no small part in ethnic cleansing.
Approximately 600,000 Chinese workers die each year from work-related stress.
Republicans should finesse gay-marriage by accepting the inevitable and demanding the freedom to dislike it. #opinions
Advocates to open 11,304 untested rape kits discovered in Detroit.
Book about life in a university dorm finds that working-class students thrive by transferring to smaller colleges near their birth homes.
Authors start charging readers to visit their book clubs.
Primer on how to tell if that guy in your book club is a homicidal maniac. #tmn
The final match is in the can for this year’s Tournament of Books, presented by Field Notes. #tobx
I have never been so enraptured before by a multitude of tone-vibrations. Helen Keller on “listening” to Beethoven’s Ninth.
Nearly every culture has its own version of a Polish joke, but in Japan there’s no set-up, only punchline.
Local Japanese court reopens case for world’s longest-serving death row inmate, 48 years later.
CNN’s fixation on Flight 370 turns a story into a phenomenon, emphasizing the viewer’s experience over news.
You publish something and you try to get people to read it. Clickbait isn’t new or unethical; it’s old-school journalism. #opinions
After publishing an interview with John Updike, reporter stumbles across Updike’s fictionalized version of the same interview.