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Headlines from January 2, 2013

I knew something wasn’t right, parked the car and ran to catch up with my son at the front door. Gunshot wound survivors tell their stories on Reddit.
Over the winter break, schoolteachers learned how to shoot guns.
Home schooling in the U.S. is growing, and it’s not just religious families who are doing it.
The divisive, conflicted history of the Montessori system in the U.S.
A week after the presidential election, Republicans embarked on a soul-searching Caribbean cruise. #longreads
You’re way ahead of the others. A researcher finds himself in a 4chan scavenger hunt.
How the entertainment industry tries to work around the copyright on the “Happy Birthday” song. #video
TMN’s Paul Ford offers a bookmarklet that finds tweetable sentences on a page.
Paul Ford finds TMN’s most tweetable sentences of 2012. #tmn
Japan’s 99% crime conviction rate is called into question over growing numbers of confessions by innocents.
The blooper reel from the second season of Star Trek: The Next Generation. #video
Advances in nanotechnology bring reality closer to Fantastic Voyage. #science
Aykroyd exhibits an almost spooky faith in Belushi, whose singing voice is O.K. but no great shakes. How The Blues Brothers happened.
From the attic: New Year’s resolutions from Sarah Hepola. #tmn
Will Leitch: “We’re lowering the bar. We’re being distracted by shiny objects.”
House passes bill to avoid fiscal cliff, but faces debt-ceiling and sequester debates.
Just a few years ago, the tax deal pushed through Congress on Tuesday would have been a Republican fiscal fantasy.
Survey of highlights from the fight, including Boehner telling Reid, “Go fuck yourself.”
French panel overturns “unconstitutional” 75 percent upper tax rate.
Selections from France’s 2013 “From’Girls” cheese-and-girls pin-up calendar.
Overly skinny fashion models banned in Israel.
I have a feeling that a bus for him is like a bar for an alcoholic. Profile of Apollo Robbins, world’s best pickpocket. #longreads
Artist creates temporary nimbus clouds inside galleries.
See also: James Howard Kunstler’s predictions for 2013.
Round-up of news stories to watch for in the coming year.
The film steadfastly refuses to sentimentalize the tiger. Roger Ebert’s best movies of 2012.
Our man in Boston picks oddball books to read this month, including a compilation of fake documents.
Guide on what to eat and how to order in dim sum restaurants.
Survey finds women’s magazines now print more vulgarities because no one cares.
Of The Awl and TMN, Choire Sicha announces his book.
Unrelated: The planet could be sped up to avoid leap seconds, but we’d all die in the process.