* One in eight Americans believed the world would end today. * Portraits of people preparing for the Mayan doomsday, and/or the end of civilization. * Chart shows dates when the world was predicted to end by various prognosticators. * The Times goes big and interactive on the Stevens Pass avalanche at Tunnel
* North Korea assessed one year later, where the new Kim is thriving, though loose nukes loom. * In case you forgot: Photographs of the Syrian civil war. * Now that more and more Mexicans sport the label “middle class,” fashionistas are vying to clothe them. * List of trash humans have left behind
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* Obama vows swift action on gun control; Republicans stick to NRA talking point, saying now is not the time. * Details about recent cases and lives lost to guns in Tennessee, Kansas, Nevada, Alabama, and Missouri. * The view from Germany: [Newtown] was no uncontrollable natural disaster. * Professor tweets about wanting NRA
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* Obama is Time's person of the year, followed by a 15-year-old girl. * French psychologist convicted of manslaughter after her patient killed his grandmother. * Therapist explains what it's like to experience a midlife crisis—as a therapist. * Picture of the president composing his Newtown speech
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* Obama to announce that Biden will lead the effort to reform gun laws. * NRA announces major press conference in DC for Friday. * First funerals in Newtown. * White House behavioral analysis as Obama chooses how to address Sandy, Latino turnout, and Newtown. * "Putin’s Arms Dealers Are Selling More Weapons
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* Boehner goes alone on "fiscal cliff" deal, introducing back-up plan. * [The Republican] party is a threat to democratic discourse and to fiscal sanity. Their ideological mania knows no prudential restraint at all. * Even in gun circles, Freedom Group's industry domination is a mystery. * Argument for
