January 2, 2013: Morning
- House passes bill to avoid fiscal cliff, but faces debt-ceiling and sequester debates.
- Just a few years ago, the tax deal pushed through Congress on Tuesday would have been a Republican fiscal fantasy.
- Survey of highlights from the fight, including Boehner telling Reid, "Go fuck yourself."
- French panel overturns "unconstitutional" 75 percent upper tax rate.
- Selections from France's 2013 "From’Girls" cheese-and-girls pin-up calendar.
- Overly skinny fashion models banned in Israel.
- Profile of Apollo Robbins, world's best pickpocket.
- Artist creates temporary nimbus clouds inside galleries.
- See also: James Howard Kunstler's predictions for 2013.
- Round-up of news stories to watch for in the coming year.
- Roger Ebert's best movies of 2012.
- Our man in Boston picks oddball books to read this month, including a compilation of fake documents.
- Guide on what to eat and how to order in dim sum restaurants.
- Survey finds women's magazines now print more vulgarities because no one cares.
- Of The Awl and TMN, Choire Sicha announces his book.
- Unrelated: The planet could be sped up to avoid leap seconds, but we'd all die in the process.