January 30, 2013: Morning
- Brief guide to players, groups, and motivating factors in Mali's political crisis.
- Four issues about "securing the border" that won't figure in the debate—like increased drug trafficking not leading to "spillover" violence.
- Brazil's nightclub tragedy—230 dead—has some faulting a national culture of leniency and fatalism.
- Zimbabwe finance minister says the government has $217 in the bank.
- Environmental artist transforms British beaches with a garden rake.
- Despite recently hitting “Beyond Index” air-pollution territory, Beijing is merely China's 21st most polluted city.
- Man found preserved in Brooklyn pickle factory surprised to meet "conceptual artists."
- Group of men has been playing "Tag" for 23 years; being "It" lasts for 11 months of shame.
- Astonishing story of one Russian family's decline after being cut off from humanity for 40 years.
- Alexander Chee on exclusive artist colonies, where it's not just work, booze, sex—it's also picnic baskets.
- Artist invents clothing to hide you from drones, makeup to avert face-recognition software.
- Studies find helmets on ski slopes protect brains and don't increase risk-taking, but aren't popular with beginners or ski patrollers.
- Five-year-old practices boxing.
- One-third of Southerners believe God plays a role in determining which team wins a sporting event.
- Lefty author and football expert offers primer on what's wrong with the NFL.
- Man in Saudi Arabia pays wife $13,000 so she’ll forgive him for making out with their Ethiopian maid.
- "Teenage Girl Blossoming Into Beautiful Object."