April 18, 2013: Morning
By The Morning News
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- Giffords: Senators who chose the NRA against the people should be ashamed, but are not.
- Congressional reaction to the Senate's rejection of background checks.
- Despite his fight, Obama knew before setting out that gun-control legislation never stood a chance in hell of surviving the NRA's money.
- Massive explosion at a fertilizer plant in Texas injures dozens, kills an unknown number.
- Remarkable: Every person wounded during the Boston attacks but found alive by rescuers will survive.
- Those suffering from language isolation—in places like Guantánamo, for example—experience disorientation and a decline in their decision-making ability.
- Patton Oswalt improvises an eight-minute filibuster about Star Wars for Parks and Recreation.
- To fight America's low fertility rates and the resulting problems—aging population, dwindling workforce, shrinking economy—we must embrace immigration.
- Dallas middle-school student sees science project about organic food published in respected national science journal.
- Food truck in Mexico City promotes "Canada's Brand" with poutine, Alberta beef tourtière, maple-glazed Albacore tuna.
- By the 1980s, there were barely 100 butlers in Britain, but thanks to recent booms in wealth, there are now at least 5,000.
- How to flirt in the British Library, where it's the unruliness of some patrons that enlivens the room.
- See also: 1957 education film about "heavy petting."
- NBA ranks the top 10 dunks and plays of the 2012-13 regular season.
- Animations based on quirky biology-related rhymes yield a euk with a uke on a cuc.
