20 July 2010: Morning By The Morning News — 20 Jul 2010 Activists fight law requiring jailed women to be shackled during birth. Female Afghan governor rejects idea that women should "be sacrificed" in return for a deal with the Taliban. Outstanding: Unedited rushes of everything shot by the BBC in Afghanistan over the last 30 years. Factory pot farms proposed for Oakland. Global warming will be the most important investment issue for the foreseeable future. Global warming in five minutes. Obama's fifth Gulf Coast visit really helps a lot. America's greening offers a great chance to lampoon contradictory living. Humans aren't just a genome--they're "a collective of genomes of hundreds of different species all working together." They. Just. Want. Fresh. Blood. Bill Murray gives rare interview and explains why he hates L.A. Studies find statements read with a foreign accent are significantly less likely to be believed. Explanation of biases that make online reviews inaccurate. One-star Amazon reviews of classics, from Catch-22 to To Kill a Mockingbird. De Botton: Atheism need not be dull; religions' ambitions can be borrowed. Instapaper: Brief history of electoral systems, from the doges in Venice to America. "Locked-in" man files for the right to be killed by his wife. Capsule-sized thriller contained in a brief article about a New York apartment. Nuggets of gold found in Virginia's archive from when Faulkner visited.
