She plunked Elmo's head on the counter and returned with the body a furry red pajama suit with separate hands and feet.

WSJ: Getting Into a Character

Near Big Bear Lake, California (CNN) -- Los Angeles police and the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Office moved Tuesday night to counter widespread reports that a body believed to be that of renegade ex-Los Angeles police officer Christopher Jordan Dorner had been recovered from a burning cabin near Big Bear Lake, California.

CNN: STORY HIGHLIGHTS

Intactivists counter that this hardly justifies what they call the amputation of a body part from infants who might never be at risk of HIV.

ECONOMIST: Banning circumcision

After seven pages of analysis by counter-example and refinement, he defines it as an enthusiastic desire, which infuses the body, for sexual activity and its pleasures for their own sake.

ECONOMIST: The deadly sins