October 23, 2012: Morning
- Iran, China, and Israel win contest of most-named foreign countries during last night's debate.
- Polls give Obama the win, though he's unlikely to get a big debate bounce.
- Round-up of debate's fact-checks.
- International poll finds half the world prefers Obama, 9% prefers Romney; only Pakistan wants Romney to win.
- Romney selling "Clear Eyes, Full Hearts" bracelets despite protest from Friday Night Lights creator.
- Riveting Jane Mayer story on the source of the voter-fraud myth.
- What foreign policy issues were debated four years ago?
- Extramarital-affair business prepared to be sued if French presidents take offense at being labeled poor adulterers.
- Pussy Riot members to serve out jail sentences separately in some of Russia's harshest prisons.
- Lovely visual guide to 20th-century Italian hand and body gestures.
- Tate Gallery creates virtual exhibition chronicling modern art that's been stolen, lost, or destroyed.
- There’s not a hope in hell of predicting the nature of the next pandemic, but that doesn't oblige us to be blind.
- Pictures from prom at the Texas School for the Blind and Visually Impaired.
- Photos from behind the scenes of Raiders of the Lost Ark.
- Indiana Jones denied tenure due in part to romantic links to "countless women of questionable character."
- Emily Witt on online dating.
- See also: Fairy tales for twenty-somethings.