8 June 2009: Morning
By The Morning News
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Responding to nuclear tests, U.S. considers intercepting North Korean shipments, perhaps with China's help.
North Korea sentences U.S. journalists to 12 years hard labor for a "grave crime"--though they may be only a bargaining chip.
"I have become more and more like a sucked orange." In ill health, George Orwell traveled to a remote Scottish farmhouse to complete Nineteen Eighty-Four .
Teenager clinging to the outside of a train for two hours remembers to record it.
A screaming patient, however tormented, had a better prognosis than a limp and lifeless one. The evolution of anesthesia from party trick to medical necessity.
F. Scott Fitzgerald's secretary on The Last Tycoon and the last months of his life.
Following dot-coms and housing, the next bubble to burst may be higher education.
As parents' cash flow tightens, they can no longer afford their kids' rent in Williamsburg, and landlords are getting nervous.
Tent cities are cropping up in California, Oregon, and Washington, shantytowns of the modern age.
Some homeless prefer the relative safety and flexibility of street life to the volatility of homeless shelters.
If you're planning on camping this summer, don't forget your gendered mosquito repellent.
GM, take note: A Japanese company is turning discarded car seats into office chairs.
Video: Preview of National Geographic's follow-up to The Farm, a look at life behind bars.
