November 26, 2012: Morning
- Congo again slips into chaos and war, though ruthless rebels prove to be capable administrators.
- Portraits of Sandy survivors in storm-ravaged Staten Island.
- Whether in 50 or 100 or 200 years, there’s a good chance that New York City will sink beneath the sea.
- Considering overpopulation and the end of the world: Is it acceptable anymore to have children?
- Father sends letter of "bitter, bitter" disappointment to his grown children and asks them to stay out of touch.
- The belief that spinach is full of iron derives from a copying error.
- Trillin dines on Mexican cuisine.
- Excellent, lucid report on the current status of drug wars in Mexico.
- News and analysis of Damien Hirst's plummet from profits.
- On paper, China's mega-cities are astonishing; in reality, they're unlivable.
- Pictures and tour of modern art to see in Fort Worth, Texas.
- From the 1800s, 17 euphemisms for sex.
- Seventy-two-year-old grandfather becomes e-commerce sensation after modeling teen girls' clothes.
- Blind reporter attends world's largest rattlesnake round-up.
- French president Hollande and his wife are happy to meet you in their garden.
- Shopping chronicles of the programmer who created a bot to send him random things from Amazon.