Anne Hull | Washington Post | 9 December 2012 Tabitha Rouzzo, 17, was dealt a poor hand in life. She is determined through hard work and sheer effort to get out of the circumstances in which she grew up. But leaving poverty is tougher than it once was in America (h/t D Lippman) Comments Raffi Khatchadourian | New Yorker | 10 December 2012 Lawsuit exposes 20 years of US military "psychochemical" research. "The characteristics we are looking for in these agents are exactly opposite to what pharmaceutical firms want in drugs, that is, the undesirable side effects" Comments Daniel Akst | NYT | 8 December 2012 "One-sided legal releases are part of modern life, but these ubiquitous documents often contain little-noticed indemnification clauses that make every one of us an insurer. Are these indemnifications legally enforceable?" Comments Perry Link | NYRB | 6 December 2012 "It would be wrong for spectators like you and me, who enjoy the comfort of distance, to demand that Mo Yan risk all and be another Liu Xiaobo. But it would be even more wrong to mistake the clear difference between the two" Comments John Shiffman | Reuters | 7 December 2012 How American-born Colleen LaRose came to be considered the new face of terror. Was the US authorities' case against her all it was cracked up to be? Part one of a four-part investigation Comments Carl Zimmer | Slate | 6 December 2012 "To understand what it means to be human, you have to understand koalas. Or, to be more precise, you have to understand how they are dying from a bizarre viral outbreak that has been raging for the past 150 years or so" Comments | 
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