January 9, 2012: Morning
- A haunting account of one man's seven-year Gitmo imprisonment.
- For those waiting anxiously for immigration reform—with no resolution in sight—Obama's proposal offers new hope.
- Given months to live in 1963, Stephen Hawking has continued to survive against all medical odds.
- Psychologists can't decide whether "culture-specific" diseases are real, or just an example of Western condescension.
- The reason Ron Paul has attracted so many liberals is because they're not looking at him close enough.
- Preferring savings over safety, U.S. cities turn off thousands of streetlights.
- In his posthumous memoir, Gil Scott-Heron writes how he and Stevie Wonder helped establish MLK Day.
- Dispute between New York Opera and labor union threatens La Traviata, and perhaps the entire season.
- Photographer Simone Lueck discusses her best shot from a series of older women revealing their inner starlets.
- Women, age 0 to 100.
- Vatican uses Wikipedia to write bios of new cardinals.
- Critics in conversation rip The Devil Inside.
- TSA revels in its best catches of 2011, including "small chunks" of C4 explosive.