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Monday, December 10, 2012

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Today: Obama Heads to MI for ‘Cliff’ Rally , Radio Hosts ‘Gutted,’ ‘Heartbroken’ , Bakken Oil Boom and Climate Change Threaten the Future of Pasta
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December 10, 2012
GOSPEL

A recent papyrus that referenced Jesus’s wife caused an uproar. It may be a hoax, but the question remains: what do we really know about the historical truth of the early life of Jesus? Even the Gospels disagree. Just in time for Christmas, biblical scholar Bart D. Ehrman challenges what we think we know about the man behind the world’s biggest religion in a Newsweek cover story.

SUPPORT

President Obama will address Michigan autoworkers Monday, imploring them to support his plan to pull the country back from the fiscal cliff. The stop in Redford, Mich., is an attempt by the president to gather popular support behind his plan to deal with the looming combination of spending cuts and tax increases. A main sticking point in negotiations with Republican lawmakers so far has been the president’s request to make the top 2 percent of America’s wealthy pay more into the public coffers.

NO JOKE

The two Australian DJs whose bad imitation of the queen led to the world’s most disastrous prank call said they were “gutted, shattered, and heartbroken” in their first interview since. Jacintha Saldanha, a London nurse, was found dead shortly after the two pranksters phoned in to her hospital and fooled her into thinking they were the queen. “If we played any involvement in her death, then we’re very sorry,” said presenter Mel Grieg, 30. “We couldn’t foresee what was going to happen.”

HUNGRY

Are you sitting down? Pasta is in danger of becoming extinct, writes Mark Hertsgaard in Newsweek. Wheat, which grows best in cooler seasons, has already become a victim of global warming and stands to suffer further as temperatures rise. Unless more of America acknowledges the reality of climate change, the noodle may one day go the way of the dinosaur—but not before faltering harvests lead to shockingly high prices for one of the world’s most popular staple foods.

OVERPRICED

The contemporary art market is about to deflate, writes Newsweek’s Blake Gopnik, and the same people who keep the industry alive are to blame. The extraordinarily high prices offered for virtually everything at major art events, like this month’s Art Basel in Miami, are a clear sign that the demise of the art market’s current boom is imminent, Gopnik insists. Only question is: will this bubble pop or just quietly deflate?


DEVASTATING
Singer Jenni Rivera Killed in Plane Crash
Aircraft went missing shortly after takeoff.
HOUSING
Sandy Reveals Cracks in NYCHA
After power failed; residents were stranded.
COUNTDOWN
N. Korea Sets Back Rocket Launch
Extending window until Dec. 29.
MISEDUCATION
Report: Students Serve Pot Brownies
Sending three people to the hospital.
REMORSE
Sorry Psy Plays DC Christmas Gig
After report of anti-American lyrics spread.
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