Mapping the Territory
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* If January has been any indication, Biden is poised for a far more influential role in the administration's second term. * White House responds to secession petitions. * Clarence Thomas breaks seven-year silence to make fun of Yale Law School. * How they must bleed for us. In 2012, the
* Obama to announce comprehensive gun-control plan, with 19 separate actions he could take alone. * Since the Newtown massacre, 836 Americans have been killed by gun violence. * Round-up of national gun-control action—measures being considered, fights being fought, and issues up for debate. * Glickman: We must recognize that
* How to fix India's male-superiority complex. * Photos find the link between India's textile and dance traditions. * Report from the beheading of a Sri Lankan maid in Saudi Arabia, where sexual abuse of domestic workers "seems not uncommon." * Llewellyn Hinkes-Jones, "Privatized Prisons:
Photos that meditate on the link between fabric and movement in India’s textile and dance traditions.
* France says its military intervention in Mali is "developing favorably," and it has no intention of "staying forever." * Footage of 340,000 who marched in Paris against gay marriage. * Norwegian Seafood Council ad campaign features performers who act out sushi recipes with dance. * Far-away photographs
* How the UN created a cholera epidemic after the 2010 earthquake in Haiti—and then covered it up. * A week after leaving Haiti, Elizabeth Kiem felt the earthquake hit. * Every national anthem in the world played simultaneously. * Americans experience higher rates of disease and injury and die sooner than people
* Extreme weather events increasing in intensity as well as frequency around the world. * Pictures of play and rescue during recent wintry weather in the Middle East. * Iran pledges to produce its own version of Argo, "which lacks a proper view of historical events." * In case you missed it:
To call football predictable is to call it brutal. The things you can count on in a football game, in a football season, always seem to reflect the ugliest aspects of the sport: An underdog will be demolished; a player will be hurt; a brief career will end in disappointment
* In a rebuke of the steroid era, no one is elected to baseball's Hall of Fame—the second time in 43 years. * Kevin Guilfoile exposes the rampant use of performance-enhancing drugs among famous playwrights. * A new report finds as much as half of all the world'