April 17, 2012: Morning
By The Morning News
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- Frustrated by FDA approvals, ALS patients home-brew experimental treatments.
- Spate of lawsuits arrive in New York courts from lawyers who find businesses with disabilities violations, then recruit plaintiffs.
- Researchers marvel at orangutans' engineering skills while constructing their nests.
- Tanzanian farmers try to thwart crop-raiding elephant packs, which work in teams to wipe out farms.
- Stolen and returned: Penguins from Australian Sea World.
- Stolen and still missing: Tom Petty's guitars.
- A brief history of anxiety in its many forms, more of which are added all the time.
- Historian blames "pushy parent syndrome" for the death of a high-achieving ancient Roman boy.
- Latest argument for U.S. decline cites overpraising of children as "quite un-immigrant and therefore quite un-American."
- I thought it was going to be fancy: white people, you know, the U.S.A...But when I came here, I saw gang members, Latinos, African Americans, drug dealers, and homeless.
- How temporary interventions, such as cycling events, encourage LA residents to imagine a less tedious infrastructure.
- Alfred Hitchcock defines happiness as the "clear horizon" free of the destructive, where we can create something.
- Harvard scientist develops WikiCells, an edible, malleable membrane to be used as food packaging.
- Winston Churchill, man of style.
