November 20, 2012: Morning
By The Morning News
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- Propaganda has been a part of every war; in Israel vs. Hamas, Instagram lets amateurs in on the action.
- Egypt, Israel, Hamas close to reaching ceasefire deal.
- Big pictures from a weekend of violent exchanges between Israel and Gaza.
- Anderson Cooper is never too busy for a good burn on Twitter.
- The Obama coalition is in large part a response to fear instead of, or as well as, hope. But that’s OK.
- Physicists search for wimps underground in Italy.
- Construction worker shares tips on how to survive without health insurance.
- Belgium rents space for its inmates in Dutch jails, patrolled by Dutch corrections guards.
- Protecting U.S. officials overseas hampers their ability to advance the national interest.
- Pictures of the typography of great American cars.
- Judd Apatow, Leslie Mann, and their daughters on making a movie based on family squabbles.
- Peter Jackson denies animal deaths on Hobbit set, including that of miniature horse named Rainbow.
- New Radiolab episode on inheritence for your holiday travels.
- For crime readers: BBC4's terrific "Foreign Bodies" podcast—a history of modern Europe through literary detectives.
- Economist blogger bets a bottle of beer that China's economy will crash.
- In case you've noticed your Becks, Budweiser, and Goose Island beer tasting worse, here's why.
