17 February 2011: Morning By The Morning News — 17 Feb 2011 Army captain who busted badge counterfeiters is under investigation for using fake badges to breach security at government buildings. Gunmen who killed U.S. customs agents in Mexico knew they were firing on foreign officers--though no motive has been determined. In an Ohio Amish village, S.E.C. charges man with operating a Ponzi scheme that lost millions for his investors. We could have [become Unitarians], but the Unitarian church was way too far away. Theodore Ross interviews his mother on why she pretended they weren't Jewish. Iron-fisted New Yorker fact checkers loosen their grip on poetry, publish suspect lines. Researchers link lower human growth hormone levels to reduced incidence of cancer, diabetes. Op: Doctors are itching to diagnose the brilliant with mind diseases, but that brings us no closer to understanding genius. Assuming taxonomists discover 35 new species in their lifetime, it's 360 years until we've got them all. Rhode Island town to make enforceable dozens of homemade "stop" and "yield" signs. The Lisa Simpson Book Club collects everything the brainiest Simpson has been spotted reading. Video: Locked in a hotel room with one of the world's most high-speed digital cameras. All issues of Spy magazine now on Google Books. Visualization of worldwide coffee consumption; etymology of alcoholic drinks.
