March 7, 2012: Morning
- Former ImClone CEO proposes we fight the burden of rising pharmaceutical prices by only paying when the drugs work.
- Scotland's premature births drop by 10% following a country-wide ban on smoking in public places.
- The conservative movement that has taken over the GOP was nursed on hatred of Eisenhower’s moderation.
- An iconic image of the 1979 Iranian Revolution depicts a hopeful nation headed toward disaster.
- Saudi Arabia decides which moral rules are OK to bend in favor of a stronger economy.
- Why or how the U.S. economy has improved its capability to respond to high oil prices is not well understood.
- Q&A with ticket scalper on his "out of control" industry.
- Steadier food sources—e.g., human garbage—may be contributing to larger red foxes.
- We boo because we care, so we should do it more often.
- When Walt Whitman was strapped for cash, he made money with his commercial novel Franklin Evans.
- The "Are You a Slut?" flowchart.
- In Thailand, fortune-tellers face legal action over predictions.