March 8, 2012: Morning
- The GOP is deeply divided, and it may be to the Party’s advantage to have the actual primaries fail.
- How to make a Santorum cake.
- Experts confused about new iPad's lack of new name; evidence says names don't affect Apple's sales.
- Brazil overtakes UK to become world's sixth-biggest economy.
- Turn-of-the 20th-century child mining as unappealing as it sounds.
- Big Spiegel report uncovers the many Nazis who found senior positions of power in West Germany.
- Women's legal rights advance post-Arab Spring, but not political representation or safety.
- 2011 Rooster judge Weiner says women supporting women will see more women published.
- Round-up of women writers deserving more attention, by 2012 Rooster judge Alyssa Rosenberg.
- Oh, yeah: the 2012 Tournament of Books begins today.
- After a year of considering "intense analytical information," Home Depot to no longer sell books.
- Choire Sicha sells his soul to Homeland Security for supposedly easier airport security checks.
- History, misconceptions, and reality of "a vernacular wrapped in a dialect inside a language"—Ebonics.
- Slideshow of stunning works by early color photography master Ernst Haas.
- Pictures of the movie plaza a man built and ran in his basement.