Honoring the victims of the Boston Marathon tragedy

U.S. The Boston Marathon tragedy: Honoring the three people killed By Harold Maass Loved ones and strangers alike mourn two young women and an 8-year-old boy Entertainment WATCH: Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert react to the Boston Marathon bombing By Scott Meslow On Tuesday evening, the Comedy Central hosts offered unique and moving tributes to the city of Boston Science What is ricin, exactly? By Chris Gayomali The slow-acting poison was found lacing letters sent to Sen. Roger Wicker and President Obama Science The astounding popularity of a ticket to Mars By Peter Weber Two privately funded voyages to the Red Planet are drawing thousands of applicants, even though neither sounds all that pleasant Language 10 words that will win you any game of Scrabble By Jennifer M Wood Don't call it a board game. Scrabble is serious business. Entertainment No, Family Guy didn't predict the Boston Marathon bombing By Scott Meslow The parallels between a March 17 episode of the animated comedy and the real-life attacks on Monday have been wildly overblown From our partners at Slate Predicting the next Boston By William Saletan The FBI's case list shows we're lucky not to have suffered more bombings. Don't be surprised if we're hit again FROM OUR PARTNERS AT POLITICAL WIRE Bachmann ethics investigation widens By Taegan Goddard Investigators are examining whether staffers on Bachmann's presidential campaign played an improper role in her 2011 tour to promote her memoir SEE ALL CARTOONS SLATE Immigration reform: Work permits fast, citizenship (much) later POLITICAL WIRE Bush remains very unpopular NEWSER Budweiser spent years developing new can shape SALON Reports of Boston bomb arrests premature NEW YORK MAGAZINE Scenes from Margaret Thatcher's funeral       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.