January 17, 2012: Afternoon
By The Morning News
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- Today: ██████████████.
- North Korea is doomed to fail under his brother, says exiled, "normal, intelligent human being" Kim Jong Nam.
- As Tibet immolations continue, the causes become clearer.
- Timekeepers ponder fate of leap second, whose destruction could leave Earth and time "several minutes apart."
- A public-transit R&D lab in Virginia aims to get more people to ride the bus.
- Writers, thinkers, professors answer: "What is your favorite deep, elegant, or beautiful explanation?"
- "Some Projections on West Georgia College's Next Thirty Years."
- Super-PAC ads make a greater difference to primary results than personal appearances, speeches, town halls.
- MLB's 1990 decision to include Puerto Rico in the first-year player draft has decimated the island's winter league.
- The key to big ratings for the Miss America Pageant is lousy football.
- America's history of secessionist movements.
- The many lives of John Lennon's cats.
