Airline charges passengers by weight, the NRA has a new plan, and more

U.S. New NRA plan calls for arming and training one staff member in every school By Keith Wagstaff The National School Shield Program would reportedly cost around $800 to $1,000 per trainee Business Should airlines charge passengers by weight? By Harold Maass Samoa Air becomes the first to weigh travelers and their luggage Health 6 ways of looking at college hookup culture By Peter Weber According to a new book, casual sex in college is plentiful, mandatory, and unfulfilling, leading to an epidemic of bad sex World Why March was Syria's bloodiest month yet By Keith Wagstaff Some 6,000 people died in Syria's civil war in March, according to a human rights group Science WATCH: This awesome sea lion can dance to Backstreet Boys By Chris Gayomali UC Santa Cruz researchers say Ronan is the first mammal to successfully get funky U.S. Marco Rubio is right: Don't rush immigration reform By Edward Morrissey Congress needs to open up the debate to the public, says Edward Morrissey FROM OUR PARTNERS AT SLATE PHOTOS: A distorted galaxy and its cloaked clouds of gas By Phil Plait Galaxy J08 is about 650 million light years away, and has a strange, drawn out, and oddly pleasing curvy hooked shape FROM OUR PARTNERS AT POLITICAL WIRE The mystery man behind the Michele Bachmann probes By Taegan Goddard The man responsible for giving Michele Bachmann some recent bad press claims it's all a part of his mission from God SEE ALL CARTOONS SLATE Was Kevin Ware's televised injury the most gruesome in sports history? POLITICAL WIRE Town mandates gun ownership NEWSER New York Times turns its stories into haikus SALON Chimps take anti-depressants, too NEW YORK MAGAZINE Check out the view from the top of One World Trade Center       Is this email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser.  unsubscribe from this list | update subscription preferences | privacy policy Copyright © 2013 The Week, All rights reserved.