Friday's Daily Brief

Friday, April 13, 2012 North Korean Missile Launch Ends In Embarrassment NEW YORK Newark Mayor Taken To Hospital Following Fire Rescue GREEN Record Weather Presents Dangerous Wildfire Threat MEDIA Roger Ailes' Jaw-Dropping Comment About CNN Host POLITICS Romney And The NRA: A 'Diss' Before Embrace COMEDY WATCH: 'Daily Show' Mocks Zimmerman Media Coverage BLOG POSTS Dr. Peggy Drexler: Role Models and the Real World The increasing fallibility and uncertain availability of XY-chromosome role models combines with the blurring of gender roles to raise a question: Does a male role model actually have to be a man? Steve Clemons: New Economic Thinking vs German Ordnungspolitik Germany is not only unwilling to extend a real lifeline to other sinking economies in Europe, it's using this moment in history to promote an ideological austerity that it wants to compel other nations -- when their economies are reeling -- to do the same as the price for German support. Kathy Freston: An Apple a Day Melts the Pounds Away! When you gradually add in nutrient-dense, fiber-rich foods, you simply stop feeling cravings. You run out of space in your belly for the old junk. Instead of craving, you feel full, fulfilled, and content. Ahmed Shihab-Eldin: Human Rights in Bahrain, a Casualty of Obama's Double-Standard The U.S. is obstructing justice, perpetuating human rights violations and supporting a leader who, like Assad, has turned his back on his own people and lied to the world about it. Greta Van Susteren: My Friend, Hilary Rosen I did not read Hilary's comments about Ann Romney to in any way take away from the hard chore of raising children, or staying at home and raising them and not working outside the family.

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