March 1, 2013: Morning
- Lawmakers head home feeling confident nothing will get done when Boehner visits Obama in the White House.
- Tank brokers estimate there are several hundred to 1,000 private tank owners in the U.S.
- North Korea uses its own method of scoring basketball—e.g., eight points for a basket scored in a game's final three seconds.
- Tweets by Vice and Dennis Rodman about partying in North Korea combined with photos of starving children.
- Related: Reporter tries to do something about North Korea's notorious death camps.
- Africa currently flourishing: Most countries at peace; life expectancy rose by a tenth in the past decade; foreign direct investment has tripled.
- Sweden's Minister of Defense says the country can only defend itself against one minor attack and only for one week.
- Residents of a London neighborhood are pissed to find their Banksy graffiti suddenly gone, then reappearing in a Miami art auction.
- Worst job ever: Suri Cruise doppelgänger.
- Survey of videos showing "Harlem Shake" rapidly becoming a form of protest—and cause of uproar—in the Middle East.
- Beginning Monday, The Morning News Tournament of Books, presented by NOOK® by Barnes & Noble.
- New Radiolab episode on Beethoven finds the composer pushing his listeners to a kind of psychological limit.
- J. Crew models turn out to be friends who have adventures and fight crime.
- Study finds men’s preference for larger breasts associated with having a greater number of oppressive beliefs about women.
- McDonald's confirms that McNuggets come in four carefully designed shapes: the "bell," the "bone," the "ball," and the "boot."