March 2, 2012: Afternoon
By The Morning News
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- Putin invokes Lermontov, Molotov, and Martin Luther King—but Russia is harder to inspire these days.
- Don't miss today's Letter From Moscow interviewing protesters, commentators, and Kremlin-watchers about this weekend's election.
- Bullfighter returns five months after severe goring left him unable to chew.
- During the 2008 crash, illegal drug money was the only thing that kept banks afloat.
- Germany's gender-quota system is a bad idea, but the debate it inspires is extremely valuable.
- Vaughan Bell on the strange case of cheerleader hysteria.
- Australian wins David Lang's YouTube-driven piano competition.
- Interview with the women of soon-to-return TV show Community.
- Toothpaste man discovered how to create habits in people: Identify cue, deliver reward, create craving.
- In New York City, 17 percent of Asian men smoke, and the number doesn't change.
- How magazines, hand lotion, advertising, and surveillance intermingle in the world of online advertising.
- How to fold a suit for traveling.
- Finalists announced for Smithsonian Magazine's annual photo competition.
- Worth revisiting: Ben Wilson turns gum splatters into miniature paintings.
