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Trouble viewing this email? View these recent stories in your browser.   Thursday, December 13, 2012 What you may have missed from The Slatest, your news companion. Blog | Josh Voorhees "It Seemed Like He Was Doing Well. What Changed in His Head?" Thursday, December 13, 2012, at 8:59 AM EST   Blog | Josh Voorhees Russia Realizes Assad May Not Be Around Forever Thursday, December 13, 2012, at 10:42 AM EST   Blog | Josh Voorhees The Very Real Plot To Castrate and Murder Justin Bieber Thursday, December 13, 2012, at 11:26 AM EST   Blog | Josh Voorhees Royal Nurse Wrote Three Notes Before Hanging Thursday, December 13, 2012, at 9:23 AM EST   Frame Game | William Saletan Myths of the Mall Attack Thursday, December 13, 2012, at 9:20 AM EST Much of what you've heard about the Oregon mall shooting has been debunked.   Blog | David Weigel This Chart Shows Why Republicans and Democrats Want to Deal on the Top Tax Rate Already Thursday, December 13, 2012, at 9:32 AM EST   Future Tense | Fruzsina Eördögh Petition Calling for Obama To Invest in a Real-Life Death Star Might Not Be So Crazy Wednesday, December 12, 2012, at 6:17 PM EST   Politics | John Dickerson A Taxonomy of Republican Hopefuls Wednesday, December 12, 2012, at 7:15 PM EST Meet the truth teller, the compassionate conservative, the coalition whisperer, and the doer. These are the GOP's new, would-be leaders.   Blog | Matthew Yglesias The Plan Is Real and It's Called Population Growth Thursday, December 13, 2012, at 8:55 AM EST   Jurisprudence | Emily Bazelon Will Churches Be Forced To Conduct Gay Weddings? Wednesday, December 12, 2012, at 5:25 PM EST Not a chance. That's just the scare tactic conservative groups use to frighten voters.   Blog | Matthew Yglesias A Great iOS Google Maps Product Vindicates Apple's Strategy Thursday, December 13, 2012, at 8:21 AM EST   Doublex | Hanna Rosin Ultimate Disney Princess Castle: Your Time is Up Thursday, December 13, 2012, at 8:30 AM EST This season's gender-neutral toys will finally prove that boys and girls aren't so different after all   Bad Astronomy | Phil Plait Alien Nile: River of Liquid Methane Seen on Saturn's Moon Titan Thursday, December 13, 2012, at 8:00 AM EST   Luxury Explainer | L.V. Anderson What Is a Yacht? Thursday, December 13, 2012, at 5:15 AM EST And when did owning one become a symbol of wealth?   BEST FEATURED STORIES Will Churches Be Forced To Conduct Gay Weddings? The Schism About the Nature of Nature That's Tearing Apart the Environmental Movement What Makes a Yacht a Yacht? How Long It Is? How Fancy? Much of What You've Heard About the Oregon Mall Shooting Has Been Debunked   Copyright 2012 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