* France criminalizes the denial of officially recognized genocides, angering Turks, straining foreign relations. * With 163 boys born for every 100 girls in parts of China, gendercide isn't slowing. * Scientists estimate a 98% chance of an magnitude 7 quake in Tokyo in the next 30 years. * What Gingrich '
* Chicago Sun-Times, doubting its relevance, drops political endorsements. * What the left gets right, according to conservatives. * Though the Christian Right was cold-shouldered in 2008, and hasn't fared well in 2012, don't be too quick to dismiss its influence. * The moral laziness of fine print.
* Syria rejects new Arab League plan; Saudis withdraw, threatening the future of the League. * NBA legend Dikembe Mutombo falls for DR Congo gold scam that hands million to wanted warlord. * Frequency of laughter at Fed meetings is on the rise. * These days smuggling HDTVs and Dutch flowers to Iran on
* EU to impose a phased oil embargo on Iran, 18% of the country's oil exports. * Iraq is largely safer than a decade ago, but lacks stability, decent economic management. * Muslim Brotherhood takes 47% of the vote in Egypt's lower-house elections, will begin writing constitution. * Navy
* How China's boom caused the financial crisis. * Most Americans pay less in taxes than they think they do—and not enough to cover the programs they want. * A toddler in Jakarta dies from bird flu, the second death from H5N1 this year. * Revised definition of autism in the
{image-1} Every Friday we take a look back at the week’s headlines, centering on a theme we’ve singled out as particularly important. This week, despite all that Wikipedia has achieved, quantity and brute force wasn’t fairing well, with soft power and quality winning the long war.
* Unsafe abortions are on the rise globally. * State capitalism is on the rise, but is probably bad for business. * A libertarian argument for (the right kind of) government regulation. * Who supports SOPA and PIPA in Congress, and who doesn't. * China reacts to SOPA. * The long road to bring
* Newt says if elected, he'd ignore the Supreme Court and roll back combatant rights, Roe v. Wade. * A look at Romeny's multimillion-dollar IRA. * Stephen Colbert could spoil South Carolina for Ron Paul. * Achievement-oriented teenage girls use similar strategies for tackling homework, fellatio. * Male authors
* Obama nixes Keystone XL pipeline, but the tar-sand oil will still flow. * South Koreans go to Cambodia to hang out at North Korean's capitalist experiment: a global restaurant chain. * Costa Concordia and the cult of the ship captain. * The race to the bottom of the Mariana trench
* Today: ██████████████. * North Korea is doomed to fail under his brother, says exiled, "normal, intelligent human being" Kim Jong Nam. * As Tibet immolations continue, the causes become clearer. * Timekeepers ponder fate of leap second, whose destruction could leave Earth and time "several minutes apart." * A public-transit
