January 23, 2012: Morning
- Syria rejects new Arab League plan; Saudis withdraw, threatening the future of the League.
- NBA legend Dikembe Mutombo falls for DR Congo gold scam that hands million to wanted warlord.
- Frequency of laughter at Fed meetings is on the rise.
- These days smuggling HDTVs and Dutch flowers to Iran on speedboat is harder, costlier.
- Reporting from the 2012 Orchid Olympics.
- Profile of a sherpa who works 60-hour weeks at a Bronx mini-mart between Everest stints.
- Cleveland TV station takes courtroom sketching to the next dimension.
- The original titles of famous novels.
- Researchers track the conversation at mixers, conclude people don't actually mix.
- How dogs think.
- Waterstones dropping the apostrophe doesn't mean much—the mark is arbitrary anyway.
- Inside the wreck of the Costa Concordia.
- HMS Victory to be raised from the sea floor, where it's been since 1744.
- For sale: Moby-Dick typed on toilet paper.