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Trouble viewing this email? View these recent stories in your browser.   Monday, February 11, 2013 What you may have missed from The Slatest, your news companion. Blog | Josh Voorhees Pope Benedict XVI Stuns World, Snubs Twitter (Both in Latin) Monday, February 11, 2013, at 9:46 AM EST   Blog | Abby Ohlheiser Benedict XVI Is the First Pope To Resign in 600 Years. Why'd the Last One Step Down? Monday, February 11, 2013, at 10:17 AM EST   Blog | Josh Voorhees Osama's Shooter: "Is This the Best Thing I've Ever Done, or the Worst Thing?" Monday, February 11, 2013, at 11:25 AM EST   Blog | David Weigel Should Elderly Politicians Make Like the Pope and Quit? Monday, February 11, 2013, at 10:34 AM EST   Blog | Matthew Yglesias Glenn Thrush Overestimates Budget Deficit by Over 1600 Percent Monday, February 11, 2013, at 9:41 AM EST   Bad Astronomy | Phil Plait Everything You Need to Know About This Friday's Close Shave by Asteroid 2012 DA15 Monday, February 11, 2013, at 8:00 AM EST   Blog | Forrest Wickman Rock Lives On at the Grammys Monday, February 11, 2013, at 1:34 AM EST   Blog | David Weigel Chuck Hagel's Boring Weekend Monday, February 11, 2013, at 9:08 AM EST   Blog | Matthew Yglesias Obamacare Doesn't Screw Young People Monday, February 11, 2013, at 8:59 AM EST   Politics | John Dickerson Karl Rove's Courage Friday, February 08, 2013, at 5:10 PM EST Why it was brave—and smart—for him to challenge the Tea Party.   Slate V | Slate V Staff Is Mali the New Afghanistan? Friday, February 08, 2013, at 5:57 PM EST Islamist fighters are a menace, but they're unlikely to form a unified terror base in the Sahara.   Food | S.T. VanAirsdale The Fresh Wars Monday, February 11, 2013, at 5:15 AM EST How the five-letter word became a fast-food mantra.   BEST FEATURED STORIES The Story Behind the Last Pope Who Quit—in 1415 Why Small-Business Owners Are a Grumpy and Pessimistic Lot The Problem With Telling People To Rest More So They Can Work Harder I Now Have Tons of Sympathy for the Downton Character I Disliked Most   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