December 2, 2013
- For consumers, healthcare.gov now appears operational, but there's no assurance it's working on the back end—for insurers.
- Though homicides have dropped, Mexico's president hasn't yet delivered on promises to improve the economy and reduce crime.
- Facing speculation he'd broken China's one-child policy seven times over, film director Zhang Yimou admits he has three children.
- Japanese man born into a life of poverty discovers he was accidentally switched at birth with a baby born into wealth.
- Thailand is on the verge of a massive people's coup, with 30,000 protestors attempting to storm PM's office.
- Spalding had earned the dubious title of first living human confirmed to have been attacked by a cookiecutter shark.
- Astrophysicists finally can detect, and perhaps synthesize dark matter, the universe's most intangible substance.
- Thomas Beller loses his AmEx.
- Research shows those born in winter are more likely to have developmental disorders.
- How Texas came to have the world's most coveted grapefruit is a story that begins with a little luck during a very unlucky time.
- Paleontologists in Argentina find large pile of 240 million-year-old Dinodontosaurus poop—the world's oldest communal latrine.
- Controversial exhibit in Italy features ancient erotic frescoes superimposed with photos of contemporary people in the nude.
- From 1920, a hit piece on the Puritans.
- Amazon is developing a fleet of drones to deliver your stuff in under 30 minutes.