* EU to impose a phased oil embargo on Iran, 18% of the country's oil exports. * Iraq is largely safer than a decade ago, but lacks stability, decent economic management. * Muslim Brotherhood takes 47% of the vote in Egypt's lower-house elections, will begin writing constitution. * Navy
* How China's boom caused the financial crisis. * Most Americans pay less in taxes than they think they do—and not enough to cover the programs they want. * A toddler in Jakarta dies from bird flu, the second death from H5N1 this year. * Revised definition of autism in the
It could have been the ghost of Brett Favre. Or Aaron Rodgers’s two-week vacation. Maybe those State Farm “discount double-check” commercials produce bad karma in addition to vague irritation. Or maybe this girl is right, and the Packers would have won if only her friend hadn’t
{image-1} Every Friday we take a look back at the week’s headlines, centering on a theme we’ve singled out as particularly important. This week, despite all that Wikipedia has achieved, quantity and brute force wasn’t fairing well, with soft power and quality winning the long war.
* Unsafe abortions are on the rise globally. * State capitalism is on the rise, but is probably bad for business. * A libertarian argument for (the right kind of) government regulation. * Who supports SOPA and PIPA in Congress, and who doesn't. * China reacts to SOPA. * The long road to bring
* Newt says if elected, he'd ignore the Supreme Court and roll back combatant rights, Roe v. Wade. * A look at Romeny's multimillion-dollar IRA. * Stephen Colbert could spoil South Carolina for Ron Paul. * Achievement-oriented teenage girls use similar strategies for tackling homework, fellatio. * Male authors
* Obama nixes Keystone XL pipeline, but the tar-sand oil will still flow. * South Koreans go to Cambodia to hang out at North Korean's capitalist experiment: a global restaurant chain. * Costa Concordia and the cult of the ship captain. * The race to the bottom of the Mariana trench
World War II had veteran parades. Vietnam War vets were often ignored, if not shunned. For the current generation of war-weary Americans, solace comes on YouTube.
* Today: ██████████████. * North Korea is doomed to fail under his brother, says exiled, "normal, intelligent human being" Kim Jong Nam. * As Tibet immolations continue, the causes become clearer. * Timekeepers ponder fate of leap second, whose destruction could leave Earth and time "several minutes apart." * A public-transit
* Scott Walker recall election filed with more than twice the amount of necessary signatures. * Mitt Romney: The whitest white man to run for president in recent memory. * Romney would be the first president "who belongs to a church that the U.S. government actually tried to crush." * John
