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Trouble viewing this email? View these recent stories in your browser.   Tuesday, January 15, 2013 What you may have missed from The Slatest, your news companion. Blog | Josh Voorhees Oprah Speaks About Lance Speaking About Doping Tuesday, January 15, 2013, at 10:02 AM EST   Blog | Josh Voorhees The Atlantic Yanks Scientology Advertorial After Outcry Tuesday, January 15, 2013, at 11:26 AM EST   Politics | David Weigel I'm the Derider Monday, January 14, 2013, at 6:10 PM EST President Obama uses his final first-term press conference to browbeat the new Congress.   Blog | Matthew Yglesias Wal-Mart Announces Largest Ever Veterans Hiring Initiative Tuesday, January 15, 2013, at 9:41 AM EST   Blog | Josh Voorhees Clarence Thomas Breaks Nearly Seven-Year Silence To Make Fun of Yale (Update: Or Maybe Harvard) Monday, January 14, 2013, at 3:50 PM EST   Blog | David Weigel An Accidentally Bad Argument for the Electoral Vote-by-Congressional-District Split Tuesday, January 15, 2013, at 11:14 AM EST   Blog | Matthew Yglesias Jan Brewer Wants To Expand Arizona's Medicaid Program, and She's Right Tuesday, January 15, 2013, at 10:31 AM EST   Blog | Josh Voorhees Today's Must-Read Obit: "Little Leyson," Youngest Survivor on Schindler's List Monday, January 14, 2013, at 11:43 AM EST   Blog | Matthew Yglesias The Eurozone Crisis Is Over, but the Eurozone Economy Is Worse Than Ever Tuesday, January 15, 2013, at 11:03 AM EST   Blog | David Weigel Schumer for Hagel Tuesday, January 15, 2013, at 10:23 AM EST   Future Tense | Will Oremus In China, the Pollution Is So Bad It Broke the Air-Quality Index Monday, January 14, 2013, at 6:33 PM EST   Crime | Chris Kirk and Dan Kois How Many People Have Been Killed by Guns Since Newtown? Tuesday, January 15, 2013, at 8:30 AM EST Slate partners with @GunDeaths for an interactive, crowdsourced tally of the toll firearms have taken since Dec. 14.   BEST FEATURED STORIES Brazilian Waxing and the Tragic Extinction of Pubic Lice Courtship Is Over, Says the New York Times. Good Riddance. Is Herbalife a Pyramid Scheme? Obama Takes Another Whack at Congressional Republicans   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