March 6, 2012: Morning
- In the U.S., vast disparities found in different judges' sentencing for the same crime.
- A chronological survey of the opening chords of Beethoven's Eroica.
- Battle hymn of the accompanist: an homage to the unsung heroes of music.
- Abraham Lincoln, technologist-in-chief, social anthropologist, proto-feminist.
- When Alexander the Great ran out of things to conquer.
- Next in Brazil's pre-Games prep: evicting 4,000 squatters from the future "Olympic Park."
- Estimates that global poverty is shrinking aren't too good to be true—and may be too conservative.
- Study finds more women resorting to abortion as economic necessity.
- Sierra Leone inventor turns old cars into agricultural equipment, condom machines.
- America's first public food forest coming to Seattle.
- Why does yoga produce so many philanderers?
- What Helen Keller witnessed at the top of the Empire State Building.
- New Yorkers: TMN's Rosecrans Baldwin will read tonight at Russian Samovar.