December 6, 2012: Morning
- Best photographs from 2012 as chosen by Alan Taylor's "In Focus" (part 1 of 3).
- Washington state begins issuing same-sex marriage licenses today.
- Lessons from Europe on how to create a healthy deficit reduction program.
- Battles in Cairo when Morsi supporters attack protesters camped outside the presidential palace.
- Brazilian gang in prison conducts 10-hour conference call to discuss drug business.
- Designers dream up the "Human Rights Skyscraper" for Beijing.
- Round-up of more casualties from the past decade's financial crisis: dead jets.
- Unsolicited, unofficial redesigned NFL logos.
- "Everything you despise about the U.S. foreign policy community in a single story."
- Man who first imagined ice ages is buried under a Swiss rock that was schlepped to Massachusetts.
- When creating a digital family tree, accuracy will yield to personal narratives about the unknown.
- Expert clinical diagnosticians are rare; for typical physicians, computer programs can overcome "anchoring bias" and save lives.
- San Diego restaurant plays its worst Yelp reviews aloud in the bathroom.
- RIP Dave Brubeck, dead of heart failure a day before his 92nd birthday.
- Investigation into real woman behind Nine and a Half Weeks—"a potent antidote to what passes for erotica today."
- Now's your chance to become a judge in the 2013 Tournament of Books.
- Thursday poem: "Lines for Winter" by Mark Strand.
- Bourbon alternatives when "you have zero chance of scoring that bottle of Pappy Van Winkle for your dad this Christmas."