7 July 2010: Morning By The Morning News — 07 Jul 2010 U.S.-Mexico governors' conference cancelled over Arizona immigration law. Obama wants direct talks to begin before the end of Israel's settlement freeze. Israel's Army Radio says U.S. to sell Israel nuclear technology. More American retailers open foreign shops, counting on overseas profits to compensate for stalled sales. Op: World Cup soccer is a game of bankruptcy, not beauty, where the host countries always lose. Hearings to begin for axing Saturday mail, cutting the postal week to five days. France debates charging citizens for foreign rescues; journalists and aid workers would be excluded. Paris pied-à-terres forbidden, in order to increase affordable housing downtown. Iran releases chart of approved hairstyles for men (see hair). Meet IkhwanBook, the Muslim Brotherhood's Facebook clone and latest internet cash cow. "Exopoliticos" study social-political implications of human contact with extraterrestrials. Long read: Why SETI can't shake off "the nuclear spectre." Analysis of the squirrel: master observer, cacher, and kvetcher. Profile of the family who made tasers a billion-dollar business. Explanation of how porn shrinks the brain and produces "a new normal." Women of The Daily Show respond to accusations of setwide sexism.
