Lisa Carver | Vice | 18 December 2012 Mother of chronically ill 18-year-old boy, expected to die young, lets the boy take charge. He fires his doctors, stops his treatments. And gets better. Lifts weights. “There’s just too much negativity. I want to have some fun" Comments Jeffrey Gettleman | NYT | 15 December 2012 Congo: The horror, the horror. "I met a pair of soldiers who had chained a chimpanzee to a corroded railway tie, leaving the animal in a pile of its own feces, staring up at us with rheumy eyes as the soldiers howled with laughter" Comments Jared Diamond | Newsweek | 17 December 2012 What can Western industrial societies learn from other ways of child-rearing? Diamond has worked with people from New Guinea and is struck by the emotional security, self-confidence, curiosity and autonomy of children there Comments Scott Thurm | WSJ | 14 December 2012 For generations of Americans, public universities offered an affordable option for earning a college degree. Not any more. States are spending their money on Medicaid and prisons. Soaring costs are transferred to students, parents Comments Patrick Cockburn | Independent | 16 December 2012 "Some Syrians claim that the people against the regime remains the central feature of the uprising, but there is compelling evidence that the movement has slid towards sectarian Islamic fundamentalism intent on waging holy war" Comments Stacey Higginbotham | Businessweek | 17 December 2012 Wonkish. But also interesting. Why Gmail goes down. "Most of the coders behind today’s popular websites and services are deploying their code when it’s ready—not at some pre-determined point when downtime may not be noticed" Comments | 
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