December 5, 2012: Morning
By The Morning News
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- Death toll from southern Philippines typhoon passes 270.
- Insourcing boom: General Electric and others begin returning manufacturing to the United States.
- Republican leaders punish Tea Party loyalists and other back-benchers.
- In case you needed another reason to hate Congressional Republicans: Meet the Sovereigntists.
- Obama considering Vogue's Anna Wintour for diplomat to UK or France.
- Britain's recession, 40,000 dead in Syria, and other stories you won't hear about because Kate Middleton is pregnant.
- Snooki offers parenting advice to the royal couple.
- Increasing numbers of Middle Eastern men going under the knife to attain the perfect mustache.
- Related: Pictures of Turkey's Ibrahim Tatlises, mustache king.
- Study finds preemptive ibuprofen use, to combat muscle soreness, offers no benefits, only damages.
- Thirteen minutes of Russian traffic accidents.
- San Francisco can become a world capital; first it needs to get over itself.
- Behavior complaints up 25% on French trains; offenders may be sent on “citizenship courses.”
- At four-year American universities, 43% of all grades are As—increase of 28% since 1960.
- If you enjoyed yesterday's reviews of 2012's best board games, here are archives going back to 2005.
- In recommending the magazine that refuses Southern clichés, Dwight Garner can't refuse Southern clichés.
- John Waters' best films of 2012.
- Gift for writers in your family: Literary Journal of the Month Club.
- Short true story of the Japanese porn actor who died in a kamikaze attack on a right-wing leader in 1976.
