December 10, 2012: Morning
By The Morning News
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- Researchers find biological parents are four times less at risk of premature death.
- The death rate of many of the biggest and oldest trees around the world is increasing rapidly.
- Drug makers are working like pathogens, sharing information in new efforts to stay ahead of antibiotic-resistant infections.
- Still a long way from being perfected, hydrogels, which can mimic human tissue, hold great promise in medication delivery.
- Business strategy meets testosterone at the Tough Mudder.
- West Point's fullback is the most-tackled player in college football, thanks to the service academies' overreliance on the triple option.
- There was a college football national championship game arranged not by computer rankings or a rubric of poll results.
- TMN's Robert Birnbaum issues his annual list of the year's best coffee-table tomes.
- Why abolishing homework will work for France only if the French want it.
- From 1906, Alvan F. Sanborn returns to New York from Paris.
- Photos of Manhattan's Lower East Side from both 1980 and 2010.
- Mr. Bloomberg has long adored The Economist, and his affinity for the paper, at least as a reader, has deepened lately.
- The BBC explains how U.S. states' secession bids differ from the separatist initiatives sought by Scotland, Catalonia, and Quebec.
