* Note: TMN is on vacation until Monday, April 7, 2014. See you then. * Profit model of American drug manufacturing leads to shortages of basic medicines, like IV fluid. * Future for energy is renewables + "clean coal." * New Mexico's arid climate is bad for most crops but good
* In 2013, as executions rose 15%, people were killed for adultery, blasphemy, and watching banned videos. * Economists fear recession in Russia as investors yank out their money and growth evaporates. * Six million of the seven million people killed by air pollution in 2012 lived in Asia. * In remote areas of
* Fourteen dead and 176 still missing in the Washington state mudslide. * Gender divides the Supreme Court in Hobby Lobby case regarding contraception coverage in corporate health plans. * Writer boils Michelle Obama's virtues down to five essential traits of a good first lady. * Crimea and its battlefields helped make
* Ukrainian women launch campaign to withhold sex from Russian men. * Federal employees forbidden from smoking marijuana even in states where it’s legal. * Girl scout breaks national record, selling 18,107 boxes of cookies on Sunday night. * Quote about New Orleans lacking kale causes much consternation and many op-eds.
* Egypt court sentences 529 Morsi supporters to death; 700 more to go on trial tomorrow. * Numbers guru Nate Silver predicts Republicans will take control of the Senate in fall elections. * Ebola outbreak in Guinea doesn't deserve panic: the virus kills people too fast for them to pass it
* Moscow responds to Obama’s sanctions by banning nine American leaders from visiting, including Boehner. * The “acceptance” of Putin’s actions among the Western community appears to be on the rise. * Rate of melting ice in Greenland indicates sea levels will rise faster than projected. * Narcissus loved his reflection before
Small towns around Europe host goose-pulling days—contests to snap the necks of birds at high speed. In the name of sport and pride, a tradition from the Middle Ages prospers, criticism notwithstanding.
* Kiev will withdraw Ukrainian troops from Crimea and appeal to the UN to declare Crimea a de-militarised zone. * AP adapts its Crimean datelines, handing sovereignty neither to Ukraine nor Russia. * China has tripled its arms exports in the past five years and imports 11% of its weapons from Ukraine.
* Tensions over Crimea may not cause a new Cold War, but instead a long period of confrontation. * Ukraine may be able write off $5 billion in debt to Russia. * Reported death of the "Russian bin Laden" cannot yet be confirmed. * Experiment shows fewer people performed tasks they didn&
A visit to a bear sanctuary could cure you of your bear phobia. Or it could turn your fear into a full-blown obsession.
