Fly Girl
Even if you grow up crushing on the jets in “Top Gun”—and not Tom Cruise—it can be tough to preserve a dream of defending your country from a plane. But some girls do.
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A collection of 14286 issues
January 30, 2013: Morning
* Brief guide to players, groups, and motivating factors in Mali's political crisis. * Four issues about "securing the border" that won't figure in the debate—like increased drug trafficking not leading to "spillover" violence. * Brazil's nightclub tragedy—230 dead—has some
Map Game
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January 29, 2013: Afternoon
* Since the Sandy Hook massacre in Newtown, 1,318 people killed by gun violence. * Israel admits it has been giving Ethiopian Jewish immigrants birth-control injections, often without their knowledge or consent. * Union membership is at a 97-year low in the United States: 11.3 percent. * Rapper Rick Ross,
January 29, 2013: Morning
* Despite its military success, France's go-it-alone approach in Mali spells grim news for Europe's future. * City of Dijon sells off half its prized municipal wine cellar to help fund local social spending. * Uproar in France after Sarkozy's son gets law professor job
January 28, 2013: Afternoon
* Jobs go begging in Chinese factories when university graduates believe the labor is beneath them. * Paintings of daily life in Greece under austerity measures. * For doomsday preppers who will need to escape New York City, the contents of one well-packed "bug-out bag." * Related: Ralph Gamelli identifies
Greece Today
Everyday scenes of Greece in paintings that evoke the quiet fatigue from living with economic uncertainty.
January 28, 2013: Morning
* Bipartisan gang of eight senators to present immigration-reform bill today. * TMN's Mike Deri Smith investigates fake consumer reviews online, outsourced to freelancers on an industrial scale. * Marine captain on "moral injury." * Obama sits down for the New Republic reboot, says he'd like the
January 25, 2013: Afternoon
* Because nobody wants to rock the boat, the RNC is sticking with the chairman who ruined 2012 for them. * Rarely seen outside North Korea, the stunningly synchronized Arirang mass games transform 50,000 teenagers into "living pixels." * Whether Beyoncé lip-synched is a scandal because it calls into
Bye Week Stinks
The week between the Conference Championships and the Super Bowl is host to a nonsense event known as the Pro Bowl. Though it’s literally an exhibition game in which the best players from the AFC face off against the best from the NFC, functionally it’s a football photo