February 16, 2012: Morning
- Pew finds electronic registration would trim two million deceased voters from U.S. rolls.
- Groups hope to recycle the 25 million pounds of beads thrown at Mardi Gras every year.
- Trustees may revive a 40-year-old "urban laboratory" in the Arizona desert as a retirement resort.
- With vast natural resources and a leadership that may be open to new ideas, businesses hunger for North Korea.
- Pre-revolutionary Iran: jet-setters' destination of choice, rife with inequality.
- Tracing the history of library sex, from dirty 1526 manuscripts to today's paperbacks.
- MRIs and willing participants show it's possible to prove that you love someone more.
- The 1982 video-game guide—with a foreword by Spielberg—that Martin Amis disowns.
- Outtakes from The Beatles' Abbey Road cover shoot.
- Researchers find a connection between slow walking and developing dementia later in life.
- We don't know the exact etymology of "balderdash," but we know it probably meant something bad.