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'A Simple Life,' 'Flying Swords' Take Top Honors at Hong Kong Film Awards

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Box Office Shocker: 'Titanic 3D' Scores Top Opening of All Time in China

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Box Office Shocker: 'Titanic 3D' Scores Top Opening of All Time in China
The 3D makeover of the classic movie earns $88.2 million in its second weekend internationally, including an astounding $58 million in China; "Titanic's" lifetime gross has now crossed $2 billion globally.

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An End To The War On Drugs

Alma Guillermoprieto | NYRB | 12 April 2012

Central and South American leaders are bracing themselves to break with the United States and abandon the "war on drugs". They can't win it. The costs are too great. What follows? Perhaps legalisation for marijuana, at least Comments

Jonah Lehrer: The Man With The Big Ideas

David Gelles | FT | 14 April 2012

Enjoyable profile of everybody's favourite popular science writer, Jonah Lehrer. Former Rhodes scholar at Oxford with a passion for neuroscience, and a flair for writing. “Genius is like porn, you know it when you see it” Comments

My So-Called Ex-Gay Life

Gabriel Arana | American Prospect | 11 April 2012

Arana recalls teenage experience of being pushed into undergoing ex-gay therapy. It didn't work, of course. Far from it. Years later, he confronts the psychologist who made a career out of offering this therapy Comments

National Responsibility And Historic Crimes

Anonymous | Philosopher's Beard | 12 April 2012

Should countries apologise for historic crimes? Consider national identity: Is a country the same one that committed the crime? And collective responsibility: Can an entire population be held accountable for a country's actions? Comments

Killer At 70,000 Feet

Mark Betancourt | Air & Space | 26 March 2012

On flying a U2 spy plane. Or what happens when technology pushes the human body beyond its limits. Nausea, disorientation, even hallucinations are common. Occasionally a pilot passes out. But the real problems begin after landing Comments

Food's Biggest Scam: The Great Kobe Beef Lie

Larry Olmsted | Forbes | 12 April 2012

Think you’ve tasted the famous Japanese Kobe beef? You may have in Japan, but in the US? No. You can't get it in stores, not by mail, and certainly not in restaurants, no matter how fancy, or what they claimed. You have been duped Comments

Box Office Report: 'Hunger Games' Continues Record Run With $21.7 Mil, 'Stooges' No. 2 With $17.1 Mil

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Box Office Report: 'Hunger Games' Continues Record Run With $21.7 Mil, 'Stooges' No. 2 With $17.1 Mil
"Hunger Games" becomes the first film since "Avatar" to spend four straight weekends at No. 1, while fellow Lionsgate pic "Cabin in the Woods" opens third with $14.9 million; "Battleship" debuts to $58 million overseas.

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Today: Taliban Attack Afghan Capital , Secret Service Scandal Clouds Trip , Midwest Tornadoes Kill Five
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April 15, 2012
THE CANDIDATE’S WIFE

Does history suggest that first ladies tilt elections? A crack about stay-at-home mom Ann Romney not working a day in her life has made her a hero to housewives everywhere. Mark McKinnon says it may not do her husband much good.

FIREFIGHT

Kabul was cast into chaos Sunday as the Taliban attacked diplomatic and government targets in the Afghan capital, the most prominent of a series of coordinated strikes across the country. Gunfire and explosions broke out near the Presidential Palace and Parliament, and militants seized a hotel in the city as part of a wave of attacks. Occupants of the British and German embassies were warned to “duck and cover and get away from the windows” as several rockets screamed through the air. The Taliban, who called this the beginning of a new season of strikes, claimed responsibility for the attacks, saying it had sent suicide bombers into the city.

OVERSHADOWED

President Obama was focused on the job at hand in Colombia Sunday despite a red-hot scandal that’s embroiled about a dozen Secret Service agents and five military service members. News that agents assigned to the president’s protection detail had been involved in a payment dispute with a Colombian prostitute earlier in the week leaked Friday, and the agents were sent home. “I think it’s been much more of a distraction for the press,” said Press Secretary Jay Carney, who added that Obama’s mind was on work as he attended the Summit of the Americas, a 33-country gathering of heads of state.

TWISTER

Tornado funnels darkened skies in the Midwest and plains states Sunday, killing five people in the Oklahoma town of Woodward. There was no warning of the impending disaster, the town’s mayor said. “When this one came in, our sirens weren’t working,” Woodward Mayor Roscoe Hill told reporters. “We didn’t have a very good storm alert.” The town of about 12,000 people was struck by one of a number of tornadoes that appeared in the region over the weekend, damaging an Air Force base and homes and knocking out electricity for thousands.

COMMEMORATION

On Sunday the city that set the Titanic on its fated voyage a century ago plans to remember the lives lost. The ship left Southampton, England, on April 10, 1912, and sank five days later. The seaside city is set to commemorate the maritime catastrophe with religious services in one of many observances across the country. In Liverpool, where the ship was registered, commemorative events will take place at the Merseyside Maritime Museum, and a memorial will be observed at the Stoke-on-Trent home of Capt. Edward Smith. The city of Southampton has more memorials to the lives lost in the sinking of the Titanic than any other place in the world has.


HOMETOWN
Politicians’ Geography Is Becoming Irrelevant
Is Romney from Michigan or Massachusetts? Obama’s Chicago—or Hawaii? Michael Medved on why geography seems to be increasingly irrelevant when it comes to a presidential candidate’s background.
SEARCH AND RESCUE
4 Missing After Yacht Accident
1 dead.
ESCAPE
400 Freed in Pakistan Jailbreak
Aided by Islamist militants.
BRAINS
Four-Year-Old Joins Mensa
Boasts IQ of 159.
HEALTH

Robin Gibb in a Coma
Hospitalized with pneumonia.
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