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Trouble viewing this email? View these recent stories in your browser.   Thursday, January 10, 2013 What you may have missed from The Slatest, your news companion. Blog | Daniel Politi India Rape Accused Were Tortured by Police, According to Lawyer who Blames Victim Thursday, January 10, 2013, at 11:31 AM EST   Blog | Daniel Politi Ben Affleck, Kathryn Bigelow, James Bond Get Oscar Snub Thursday, January 10, 2013, at 9:32 AM EST   Blog | Abby Ohlheiser NFL Player Junior Seau Had Degenerative Brain Disease CTE at Time of Death Thursday, January 10, 2013, at 11:44 AM EST   Technology | Will Oremus Going Viral Wednesday, January 09, 2013, at 6:44 PM EST Google searches for flu symptoms are at an all-time high. Is it time to panic?   Blog | David Haglund Lincoln Leads Oscar Nominations Thursday, January 10, 2013, at 9:31 AM EST   Blog | Katy Waldman Male Jurors More Likely To Find Fat Women Guilty, According to Depressing Study Thursday, January 10, 2013, at 11:02 AM EST   Blog | Matthew Yglesias The Real Reason Republicans Don't Like Jack Lew Thursday, January 10, 2013, at 10:24 AM EST   Jurisprudence | Richard L. Hasen What's Lost if the Voting Rights Act Falls? Thursday, January 10, 2013, at 5:42 AM EST Minority voters will lose a key bargaining chip.   Blog | Matthew Yglesias The Platinum Coin Was Intended To Generate Seigniorage Thursday, January 10, 2013, at 9:32 AM EST   Sports Nut | Nate Jackson The Lesson of RGIII Wednesday, January 09, 2013, at 5:33 PM EST The health of an NFL player belongs to everyone but the player himself.   Blog | David Weigel A Former U.S. Mint Chief Rebuts the #MintTheCoin Skeptics Thursday, January 10, 2013, at 9:27 AM EST   Blog | Matthew Yglesias ECB Stands Pat as Eurozone Continues Recessionary Slide Thursday, January 10, 2013, at 8:42 AM EST   Crime | Chris Kirk and Dan Kois How Many People Have Been Killed by Guns Since Newtown? Thursday, January 10, 2013, at 8:30 AM EST Slate partners with @GunDeaths for an interactive, crowdsourced tally of the toll firearms have taken since Dec. 14.   BEST FEATURED STORIES Why Is Everyone Ignoring Google's Warnings About the Flu Outbreak? The Winners of Slate's "Design a $1 Trillion Coin" Contest A Ringing Defeat for Stop-and-Frisk and a Huge Win for Civil Liberties If SCOTUS Guts the Voting Rights Act, Southern States Will Pass Awful Voter ID Laws   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