March 11, 2013: Morning
By The Morning News
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- Friday job numbers show spike in hiring, but economists warn the sequestration may wipe away that growth.
- Thanks to the sequester, more cocaine will be showing up on our streets.
- Physicist falls in love with bikini model he met online; model asks him to bring her a suitcase; physicist goes to jail for smuggling drugs.
- Hamas on the defensive, especially after Egypt shuts down its smuggling tunnels, flooding them with sewage.
- De facto homosexuality in India, vis-à-vis Mumbai's female-impersonating dancers.
- Birth towns of Joseph Stalin and Adolf Hitler divided on how to deal with the dictators' legacies.
- David Remnick on the Bolshoi Ballet's acid attack.
- Germans, Britons, Czechs believe most people can succeed if they work hard; French, Italians, Greeks disagree.
- Brief profile of a man who does quite well selling property on the moon, Mars, and Venus.
- Inside-baseball notes from Robert Iger's deal that obtained Lucasfilm for Disney.
- Brian Sanders' paintings and drawings made on the set of 2001: A Space Odyssey.
- If the new Adidas college-basketball uniforms are too loud and crazy for you, then you're too old.
- Scientists say "sprint training" for 60 minutes a week burns the same amount of body fat as jogging for seven hours.
- Lovely This American Life segment on the stories that husbands and wives must endure hearing told repeatedly.
- Wife makes room for her husband's passion for Alger Hiss and American history’s most infamous typewriter.
