December 14, 2012: Afternoon
- In eight years the U.S. will be a major energy exporter.
- Researchers believe Olympian lifespans—2.8 years longer on average—could be possible for mere mortals.
- Abu Dhabi takes on its burgeoning obesity and diabetes epidemic.
- What's wrong with the wheat you're eating: It's not edible anymore.
- It's good that more Americans are eating breakfast; it's bad that what they're eating is all bacon and muffins.
- McDonald's attempts nutrition.
- This year the average New Yorker made nearly three pounds of garbage a day—the lowest since at least 2000.
- Why New Zealand has become Middle Earth: Successful movies can put a country on the international map.
- Price: "Not sure why but Mr. Clark seemed 2 genuinely like me, and Eye liked him also."
- Lester Bangs on Elvis's death.
- Anti-jihad group plans a new round of inflammatory ads in subway stations, this time out of vandals' reach.
- It's almost impossible to overstate the level of misogyny and hypersexualization present in the marketing of products to girls.
- The editorial style sheet for the new George Saunders story collection.
- A pilgrimage to E.B. White's home in Maine.
- Notre Dame turns 850 years old next year.
- What people are buying at auction today: locks of hair.