March 20, 2012: Morning
By The Morning News
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- Recent war games suggest an Israeli strike on Iran would draw the U.S. into war and have dire regional consequences.
- Ted Koppel on recent events.
- Up to 20% of Mauritanians are enslaved; not until 2007 did it pass a law that criminalized owning another person.
- English grows by 8,500 new words a year, though deaths have increased and births have slowed.
- See also: Why "sovereign," derived from "soverain," is spelled with a "g."
- Chinese property sales and prices see worst slide since 2006.
- New histories of Obama's economic-recovery plan suggest the stimulus was too small and unimaginative.
- Profile of Paul Clement, attorney charged with bringing down Obamacare.
- Sarah Hepola on her fake internet boyfriend, the man behind Topless Chef.
- Man caves officially declared dead.
- Most censored words on Chinese internet include "three-color cat," "Dalai Lama," "seduction poisoning."
- Upcoming in LA: Cai Guo-Qiang to mount an explosion for MOCA.
- Pictures of working artists' studios—Bleckner, Close, Gornik—with notes on what's really needed.
- In pictures: Otters who resemble Benedict Cumberbatch.
