Here I Go Again
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The Morning News
December 24, 2012: Holiday
* Charity Navigator's top 10 lists of various charities' achievements and embarrassments. * See also: Best Practices of Savvy Donors. * Cunningham Children's Home offers healing to young people with serious emotional and behavioral disabilities. * The Ronald McDonald House of Chapel Hill, NC—a beacon of hope for
December 21, 2012: Afternoon
* Schwarzenegger bicycles Venice Beach just to inhale stray smoke, and other notes on weed in California. * Overview of "sea change" taking place globally toward gay marriage. * In case this applies to your late-December plans somehow: Is he cute or is he British? * French consumer trends of 2012.
The Year That Was and Wasn’t
We gathered writers and thinkers to consider everything that happened over the past 12 months and asked them: What were the most important events of 2012—and what were the least?
December 21, 2012: Morning
* One in eight Americans believed the world would end today. * Portraits of people preparing for the Mayan doomsday, and/or the end of civilization. * Chart shows dates when the world was predicted to end by various prognosticators. * The Times goes big and interactive on the Stevens Pass avalanche at Tunnel
December 20, 2012: Afternoon
* North Korea assessed one year later, where the new Kim is thriving, though loose nukes loom. * In case you forgot: Photographs of the Syrian civil war. * Now that more and more Mexicans sport the label “middle class,” fashionistas are vying to clothe them. * List of trash humans have left behind
December 20, 2012: Morning
* Obama vows swift action on gun control; Republicans stick to NRA talking point, saying now is not the time. * Details about recent cases and lives lost to guns in Tennessee, Kansas, Nevada, Alabama, and Missouri. * The view from Germany: [Newtown] was no uncontrollable natural disaster. * Professor tweets about wanting NRA
December 19, 2012: Afternoon
* Obama is Time's person of the year, followed by a 15-year-old girl. * French psychologist convicted of manslaughter after her patient killed his grandmother. * Therapist explains what it's like to experience a midlife crisis—as a therapist. * Picture of the president composing his Newtown speech
December 19, 2012: Morning
* Obama to announce that Biden will lead the effort to reform gun laws. * NRA announces major press conference in DC for Friday. * First funerals in Newtown. * White House behavioral analysis as Obama chooses how to address Sandy, Latino turnout, and Newtown. * "Putin’s Arms Dealers Are Selling More Weapons
We Traverse Afar
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