May 8, 2012: Morning
- Poll says North Carolina very likely to amend its constitution today to ban same-sex marriage.
- Upgraded "underwear bomb" plot foiled before an AQAP (al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula) bomber could reach an airport.
- Ethiopia cracks down on international adoptions as reports of fraud surface.
- Nuclear-free Japan looks to thermal springs for energy alternative.
- State of the Free Tibet campaign now that MCA is dead.
- Long profile of Facebook's boy genius Zuckerberg discovers his hidden talent: firing people.
- Porn company sues Tumblr for copyright infringements.
- Meta column about how "meta" went from fashionable to ubiquitous in pop culture.
- Angry Birds Land opens inside a Finnish theme park.
- Exhorting obese people to eat less and exercise more doesn’t work; blame the value of the advice.
- Airplane seats designed for 170-pound dummies may not protect today's larger passengers.
- South Korea confiscates "human flesh" capsules believed to fight disease.
- The history of human remains used in medicine.
- Biologists think to look for shy animals' DNA inside leeches' last meals.
- Tragic story of wife caring for husband with frontotemporal dementia.
- Trailer for a documentary about the voice-over side of Hollywood.