May 23, 2012: Morning
- Syria proves countries with strong middle classes and diverse economies are worse at overthrowing dictators than those without.
- Obama's spending binge never happened—federal spending is rising at its slowest pace since the end of the Korean War.
- Author of the book on Romney's nightstand says the candidate missed the point of one of his passages.
- Researchers find a third of malaria drugs used worldwide are fake.
- The chicken: genomed animal, friend of Roman armies, ubiquitous food of our era.
- Dismayed by her school's unhealthy lunches, nine-year-old starts a blog that shames the school into making changes.
- Supreme Court decides in-vitro children may not be due Social Security benefits, should their father die before they're born.
- Breast cancer epidemic among male Marines tied to contaminated water—and could hold the key to a cure.
- Intrigued by the Unabomber's ideas on tech, a professor becomes his pen pal and friend.
- Tickets to visit world's tallest tower, now found in Tokyo, sold out through July.