March 14, 2013: Morning
- How cardinals discern divine will: more and more strategically over the course of the papal conclave.
- Sweden's krona is the best performing currency over the past 12 months; Japan's yen is the worst.
- Close reading of North Korea's sexist insults of female American secretaries of state.
- "Vladimir Putin teams up with Steven Seagal to promote healthy lifestyle."
- Japanese students taught almost nothing about World War II, and sometimes nothing at all.
- Body-parts supply company wants to introduce new products and expand into untapped markets like the Middle East.
- If natural gas displaces coal, then fracking is good not only for the economy but also for the global environment.
- Dunkin' Donuts sets goal of using only 100 percent sustainable palm oil in making its donuts.
- Carmakers getting "better and better" at manipulating emissions tests.
- Eustace Conway, the last American frontiersman (according to Elizabeth Gilbert), now faces building-code violations.
- Study confirms overheard cell-phone conversation is much more irritating than normal overheard conversation.
- Those who spit on good manners should take their smart-phones and shove them, please.
- George Gurley on his long love affair with the New York Observer.
- Harry Dean Stanton, who finally gets his own documentary, can't remember how many movies he's done.
- From 2002, reporter visits the Famous Poets Society's annual convention in Reno.
- Today in the Tournament of Books, Pulitzer-winner Tony Horwitz judges Mediterranean romances.