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	Trouble viewing this email? View these recent stories in your browser.     Thursday, April 18, 2013 Stories from Slate and The Slatest, your daily news companion with @JoshVoorhees.   Blog | Josh Voorhees Massive Blast at Fertilizer Plant Leaves Texas Town Looking "Like a War Zone" Thursday, April 18, 2013, at 10:03 AM EDT   Explainer | Brendan Koerner Why Do We Use Explosive Fertilizer? Thursday, April 18, 2013, at 9:22 AM EDT Isn't there an alternative?   Future Tense | Will Oremus This Mushroom Cloud Is Not From the Fertilizer-Plant Explosion Thursday, April 18, 2013, at 10:17 AM EDT   Blog | Josh Voorhees Giffords Sums Up Her Disgust With Congress in a Scathing Op-Ed: "Shame on Them." Thursday, April 18, 2013, at 10:37 AM EDT   Politics | John Dickerson Why Newtown Wasn't Enough Wednesday, April 17, 2013, at 8:05 PM EDT Gun control advocates won't win until senators fear them as much as they fear the NRA.   Crime | Chris Kirk and Dan Kois How Many People Have Been Killed by Guns Since Newtown? Wednesday, April 17, 2013, at 6:12 PM EDT Slate partners with @GunDeaths for an interactive, crowdsourced tally of the toll firearms have taken since Dec. 14.   Blog | David Weigel Opening Act: 63% of the Population, and Still Losing Thursday, April 18, 2013, at 8:04 AM EDT   Blog | David Weigel Watch the Ricin Letter Suspect Sing a Prince Song to Terrified Children Thursday, April 18, 2013, at 9:03 AM EDT   Crime | Emily Bazelon Why Some Terrorist Attacks Go Unsolved Thursday, April 18, 2013, at 10:45 AM EDT And the clues they offer for catching whoever is behind the Boston Marathon bombing.   Blog | David Haglund Watch the Crowd at Tonight's Boston Bruins Game Sing the National Anthem Wednesday, April 17, 2013, at 8:52 PM EDT   Blog | Hanna Rosin The Problem With Identifying a Suspect as "Dark-Skinned" Wednesday, April 17, 2013, at 4:04 PM EDT   Blog | Matthew Yglesias The Immigration Bill—More Than Amnesty and Border Security Thursday, April 18, 2013, at 10:05 AM EDT   Blog | David Haglund Stephen Colbert's "Oopsie-Daisy Homophobe" Thursday, April 18, 2013, at 9:27 AM EDT   Frame Game | William Saletan The NRA's Latest Bald-Faced Lie Wednesday, April 17, 2013, at 10:55 AM EDT An NRA ad claims 80 percent of police in a poll said background checks will have no effect. That's a lie.   Blog | Josh Voorhees FBI Arrests Mississippi Man in Suspected Ricin-Letter Case Wednesday, April 17, 2013, at 9:17 PM EDT   Blog | Matthew Yglesias Arin Dube Demolishes Reinhart/Rogoff Causal Argument Thursday, April 18, 2013, at 9:21 AM EDT   Blog | Matthew Yglesias US Infant Mortality Falling Thursday, April 18, 2013, at 9:29 AM EDT   Map of the Week | Heather Brady Watch the Country Get Fatter in One Animated Map Wednesday, April 17, 2013, at 9:45 AM EDT How the obesity epidemic spread across the U.S.   BEST FEATURED STORIES The Spread of Obesity in America in One Animated GIF The GOP to Mark Sanford: Take a Hike Why Does Every Guy Make the Same Face in Every Photo? Is Staying Up Really Late the Secret to Artistic Greatness?   Copyright 2013 The Slate Group | Privacy Policy The Slate Group | c/o E-mail Customer Care | 1350 Connecticut Avenue NW Suite 410 | Washington, D.C. 20036 Unsubscribe | Forward to a Friend