8 August 2007: Morning
By The Morning News
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State-run Harare paper says 7,500 have been arrested for violating price controls in Zimbabwe.
White farmers patrol South Africa's border to stem "human tsunami" of exodus.
Notes on the very real glass ceiling for women seeking to rise in Japan.
The Wire is accurate, street gangs expert says, among other tidbits in a fascinating interview.
Today's big read: Giant study finds all measures of civic health are lowered when people live with diversity.
The gene-environment correlation behind why choosing a community with good schools improves your children's chances.
Straight science over moral squeamishness, or, why morality is hard to like.
Digging into the (highly annoying to physicists) derivation of "the God particle."
Selling fast food to toddlers is a matter of branding, not taste, find researchers.
Jets coach plays Mozart to smarten his players.
DNA evidence frees man from zoo.
How Ghana aims to remain free of "the oil curse" after recent discovery of massive reserves.
Op: Profit-seeking lenders to the poor do not deserve the fate Dante reserved for them.
Holding green celebrities' feet to the fire, celebrating spooks who argue for green defense.
For every dollar Matt Damon was paid in his last three movies, his films returned $29 gross income.
"The New Republic plays many significant roles in American culture, and one of them is to find and to develop writers with whom The New Yorker can eventually staff itself."
(TMN editors mutter similar things about other publications.)
Develop us, develop you: TMN seeks a design intern for work, beer, fun.
