28 June 2011: Morning
By The Morning News
—
For the second time in history, single disease eradicated from Earth: rinderpest, or "cattle plague."
Progress map of diabetes in adults finds rate doubling over 30 years.
Op: GOP leaders goad Obama because they lack an endgame that isn't compromise or explode.
"Strongman" seeking to make hay by fighting lion arrives with weapons, finds sleepy lion, declares W.
Superheroes rendered in flag format.
Alex Ross visits Stravinsky's grave (see also: Monteverdi, Rachmaninov, Zemlinsky).
Pictures from Glastonbury music festival.
Long read: "Mafia transplantation" study finds groups on new turf get homesick or quit being gangsters.
Mother Jones's Mac McClelland uses violent sex to recover from warzone-reporting PTSD.
Questionable prosecution tendencies found in cases involving people accused of killing children.
Oral history of Michael Bay's career: blowing things up, and making it bigger, bigger, bigger!
Chef David Chang on why he loves first class: endless champagne, endless email.
Larry David works through stages of grief with his golf game.
I do not have an Italian grandmother. My mother does not rinse kimchi in the dark. TMN's Rosecrans Baldwin composes ode to nachos.
Tribute to the almanac, which contains no information crisis.
Lip balm addiction: Not a joke.
Video: Robot catches baseballs.