February 10, 2012: Morning
By The Morning News
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- With the foreclosure settlement behind them, banks can look forward to more lawsuits and criminal charges.
- [China] would much rather see future consumption...via lower household savings than through splurges on credit cards.
- For those who know, it's not America vs. China in a battle for supremacy, it's market vs. state capitalism.
- Mexico seizes record amount of methamphetamine: 15 tons, or about 13 million doses worth $4 billion.
- Even post-Prufrock and Waste Land, T.S. Eliot refused to give up his day job at the bank.
- Teachers blame a string of tuba thefts on the popularity of banda music, in which the instrument plays a major role.
- Some play whisks and garlic presses, but music marketers block new instruments from taking hold.
- Followers of the Swedish-dominated sport of rabbit hurdling know British rabbits can't jump.
- For the seventh year in a row, Thomas Dold wins the men's division of the run up the Empire State Building.
- Author John Christopher, who published the 1967-68 "Tripod Series" of young adult books, dies at 89.
- The Boy's Life comic adaption of Christopher's The White Mountains.
- Moon trees and eight other treasures lost to science.
- A spider that looks like an ant.
- Photo and video guide to the Northern Lights.
