* Pulitzer-winning article about the Iraq War from Anthony Shadid, who died yesterday in Syria. * Foreclosure quilts: Our current economy mapped using remnants and found cloth. * Former Liberian first lady introduces bill to kill homosexuals. * Trackers and rangers stalk each other in a war over the worth-more-than-cocaine
* The euro crisis has undermined Europe...transforming it from a reliable global problem-solver to a problem itself. * The EU is regulating "every financial actor, financial market, financial activity and product," line by line. * Starting with Sputnik in 1957, Americans have suffered periodic bouts of competitiveness anxiety. * White
* Frantic gestures by top Iranian officials arrive at tense time, and are read by some as provocations. * Fake news of Putin's arrest goes viral. * Italy's financial reforms can be praised, but political reform must follow. * Sarkozy joins Twitter. * Headlines editors shouldn't use to discuss
* Pew finds electronic registration would trim two million deceased voters from U.S. rolls. * Groups hope to recycle the 25 million pounds of beads thrown at Mardi Gras every year. * Trustees may revive a 40-year-old "urban laboratory" in the Arizona desert as a retirement resort. * With
* Governments begin to use lotteries to encourage good citizenship. * Travel agents routinely beat online sites for finding cheaper fares; if the agent has a horrible website, they're probably legit. * Long investigation into how iPhone apps use information stored in your address book. * Critique of journalism, PR, and attack
* Roche issues an alert that a fake version of its cancer drug, without its active ingredient, is circulating in the U.S. * Document leak reveals a libertarian thinktank's strategy to discredit climate-change science. * The Colorado River rarely reaches the sea; now U.S. and Mexican officials are
* Homs shelled for the 10th day; Assad emboldened by Russia's UN tactics and arms supply. * Book alleges CIA used Kashmir earthquake to cover smuggling agents into Pakistan. * New James Joyce children's book published, but his foundation cries foul. * Graduate student mounts defense of secret habit: audiobooks.
* Monsanto found guilty in French court of poisoning a farmer with weedkiller. * Five places where Valentine's Day is forbidden. * We're all out of money, but not love: proposing National Love Day, the anti-Valentine's. * Until the 1930s, Taiwanese aborigines often would bestow their loved
* In 12,000 words, James Fallows reviews Obama's first term. * Fantastic Economist summary of the Syrian situation. * State Department photographs show al-Assad's artillery pointed toward major protest centers. * The World Press Photo of the Year for 2011 shouldn't be used to illustrate news
* Those Americans who benefit most from the government safety net are also some of its most ardent critics. * UK immigration officials prevent 70 sham marriages in one month by surveilling a busy registration office. * Study finds New York hospitals aggressively collect on those who cannot pay, despite receiving charity funds
