May 1, 2012: Afternoon
By The Morning News
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- Open letter to NFL recruits encourages them to keep family near, and to stay far away from interior decorators.
- If Obama isn't careful, his opponent could conceivably turn his in-jokes and dazzling hipness against him.
- Brigid Sweeney on the fall of Sears, once America's mightiest retailer, now suffering from mostly self-inflicted wounds.
- New Facebook feature promotes organ donation.
- Interview with a dating coach for former ultra-Orthodox Jews.
- Voluntary castaway reintroduces 120 giant tortoises to Moyenne, Seychelles—his deserted home since 1962.
- Photographs of a penguin's life.
- Take note: Saturday evening will see this year's biggest full moon.
- Alex Trebek on Kant, peace, and why Jeopardy! represents the best of America.
- TMNers (aka, the best of Earth): Stick Paris Hilton's head on the cover of Rosecrans Baldwin's new book and you could win a copy.
- First ever detective novel, The Notting Hill Mystery, back in print after 150 years.
- China to build $1.27 billion film studio to co-produce movies with Hollywood.
- Will Self bemoans the lack of difficult mainstream art.
