* Four teenagers attempt to end Georgia county's tradition of racially segregated proms. * Ice that took 1,600 years to form in the Andes in Peru has melted in the past 25. * Graham crackers and Corn Flakes were originally intended to curb sexual urges. * Roger Ebert remembers his favorite
* Since Newtown, more states have relaxed gun restrictions than have passed new gun-control laws. * A state-by-state breakdown of recent gun legislation. * Coplen plans to arm an entire unnamed Houston neighborhood as a case study on the effects of an armed population on crime. * Why do we laugh
* Let's say that the North decides to fire its new mobile KN-08 intermediate-range ballistic missile. * Instead of Austin, a likelier North Korean target is nearby San Antonio, home to Air Force Cyber Command. * The greatest deterrent to North Korea's aggression is China, whose new
* 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
