* When the presidency was "an unbroken string of white men," the GOP didn't bother asking Baltimore's Dr. Carson to wear a mask. * Thirty-six recent images of people wearing masks. * Hopi Indians of Arizona ask federal officials to stop a high-price Paris auction
* NRA report on school security mixes up shootings, advises more guns, bulletproofing. * Satellite images of Burma reveal the devastation of the Muslim community at the hands of militant Buddhists. * Roger Ebert announces new cancer diagnosis, "leave of presence" to write more about anything and everything. * Obama's
* The federal government's sequestration continues, but Democrats and Republicans say Obama cried wolf about airline travel. * It would be easier to take conservatives seriously about gun control if they didn't support massive military spending. * The Netherlands, Berlin's staunch ally in pushing for budgetary discipline
* Women who stood shoulder to shoulder with men during the 2011 Tahrir Square protests...found their position in society undermined almost immediately. * Browse the components of the federal budget since 1965. * One of the largest farms in the U.S. converts livestock manure into natural gas to power its facilities
* China's mysterious duck, pig, and human deaths could point to a new pandemic on the horizon. * Sanitation workers, it turns out, have twice the fatality rates of police offers, and nearly seven times the fatality rates of firefighters. * A trans writer reports from both sides of the male
* A big-data analysis of white supremacists shows Republicans need to do more to counter extremist views in the U.S. * How Muslims suffer under NYPD profiling. * EPA to propose cutting sulphur content in gasoline to improve the effectiveness of catalytic converters. * Dried whiskey residue that resembles celestial bodies * For
* Kim Jong Un approves plan to ready rockets to hit U.S. targets; Pentagon urges North Korea to "dial the temperature down." * Researchers say the French have been unhappy for decades, trained early to acquire “multidimensional dissatisfaction and depressiveness.” * British princess sister Pippa Middleton says the secret of
* Google Street View locates a ghost town in Fukushima's evacuation zone. * Historically religious town allows widows to celebrate "Holi"—India's festival of color—for the first time. * Richard III's descendants claim breach of rights, challenge the planned reburial in York Minster. * Kubrick&
* Annual military drill sends American B-2 Spirit bombers over South Korea amid "heightened tension on the Korean Peninsula." * Illustrated guide to American-North Korean relations since the cold war. * Bill and Melinda Gates say the world needs a better condom "that significantly preserves or enhances pleasure,
* Crime plummets in Juarez—perhaps one cartel won over the other, maybe there's fewer young men to kill, or it could be better policing. * The trouble with being a snitch. * Brazilian doctor charged with killing seven patients now being investigated in nearly 300 other deaths. * The maker of
