Briefing

‘National sovereignty is never a license to slaughter your people.’

1. PRESIDENT OBAMA, speaking at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, where he unveiled new sanctions against those who provide Iran and Syria with technology to track down dissidents

‘If this isn’t bottom, then we’ll find some new ends to the earth.’

2. BOBBY VALENTINE, manager of the Boston Red Sox, after his team blew a 9-0 lead to lose to its archrival, the New York Yankees–the team’s worst meltdown in 18 years

‘The battle of France has just begun.’

3. MARINE LE PEN, right-wing French presidential candidate, celebrating her party’s surprisingly high support in the first round of elections

‘This is what they do in China on party matters. They punish you if you say something that is off script.’

4. JON HUNTSMAN, former Republican presidential candidate, criticizing Republican leaders for disinviting him to a fundraiser after he publicly voiced support for a third political party

‘Bring back memories … not measles.’

5. ANNE SCHUCHAT, U.S. Assistant Surgeon General, addressing would-be travelers after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention revealed that more than half of last year’s 222 U.S. measles cases–a 15-year high–came from abroad

71%

Increase in “chinplants,” or surgery to enhance the chin line, from 2010 to 2011; that’s more-rapid growth than breast augmentation, liposuction and Botox combined

2033

Year the U.S. government estimates the Social Security trust fund will run dry, three years earlier than it previously projected

6%

Drop in sales of fast-food kiddie meals in 2011, because parents are promoting healthy options or splitting grownup meals with their kids or both

$2.1 TRILLION

Worldwide proceeds generated by criminality, according to the U.N., making crime one of the world’s top 20 economies

Sources: White House; Boston Globe; Guardian; 92nd Street Y; Associated Press