January 26, 2012: Afternoon
By The Morning News
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- South Sudan shuts down wells, accuses Sudan of extortion, stealing its oil.
- A rural school district in Texas turns off its Friday night lights until budgets and grades improve.
- Lessons from the paperback revolution.
- An extensive look back at Obama's first three years in office.
- The weirdest thing about Gingrich's space visions, though, is that they suddenly matter.
- NASA releases its annual "blue marble" shot: An 8000 x 8000-pixel image of Earth taken from space.
- Alternate history: Presidential backup speeches in case D-Day, moon landing went sideways.
- Q&A with an assistant curator at the Met on its 30,000 baseball cards, which include a Honus Wagner T206.
- Botanists switch to English for naming plants.
- Poetry editors talk about the boundaries when editing the ultra-personal art form.
- Meet the young Russian journalists pondering revolution versus local change, growing up.
- A White Sea bestiary.
- Researchers "cloak" a three-dimensional object with microwaves, rendering it invisible.
- When the economy's good, you'll want a gong; when it's bad, you'll really want a gong.
