March 14, 2012: Morning
- Santorum heads to Puerto Rico after sweeping Southern Republican ballots.
- Amnesty identifies 31 forms of torture presently used in Syria, on a scale not seen in decades.
- What it's like to be "blasted" by the Pentagon's pain ray.
- We've come to think of madness as some regrettable and essentially random byproduct of combat instead of an intrinsic part of it.
- Junk emails and the "reply-all" button bring together people across continents.
- After 244 years, the Encyclopedia Britannica is discontinued in print form.
- "One angry man brings Southern California Darts Association to its knees."
- French tennis pro follows racial slur during match by insisting he'd happily sleep with Chinese girls.
- New Hampshire's "Jew Pond" most likely getting a new name.
- Why trucks beat restaurants for tacos.
- Fascinating story of the de Kooning drawing that Rauschenberg deliberately erased to make art.
- Pilot explains what all those controls in a cockpit do.
- New York gangs move to Hudson Valley, bringing crime with them.
- The theremin instrument was partially a Trojan Horse for industrial espionage.
- Sorry: Bacon will still kill you.