January 20, 2012: Afternoon
- How China's boom caused the financial crisis.
- Most Americans pay less in taxes than they think they do—and not enough to cover the programs they want.
- A toddler in Jakarta dies from bird flu, the second death from H5N1 this year.
- Revised definition of autism in the new DSM may shut many out of heath and other services.
- An unseasonal winter has wrecked the season for retailers, who can't move coats and other winter gear.
- Desperate for snow, Vail Resort asks Ute tribe member to perform a snow dance; flurries arrived that morning.
- With his announcement, everything had changed: we might all die within the next hour.
- Jane McAdam Freud—great-grandaughter of Sigmund—sculpted her father on his deathbed.
- New Yorkers who answered a flier in December found themselves confined to a Dallas hotel weeks later, forced into sermons, calisthenics.
- Saving John Coltrane's Long Island home, where he wrote A Love Supreme.
- Etta James, 1938-2012.
- Etta James, "I'd Rather Go Blind."