April 26, 2013: Morning
By The Morning News
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- Syria denies use of chemical weapons; UK and Turkey back U.S. concern; Israel urges military intervention.
- Some members of Congress were told last week that the U.S. had evidence of Syrians killed by the chemical sarin.
- Three important caveats on the Syria chemical weapons report and Obama's red line.
- McCain: Intervention in Syria "does not mean boots on the ground."
- Economists tend to think that more choice is good. Yet people with many options sometimes fail to make any choice at all.
- Rape and the threat of sexual violence figured large in the American Civil War, yet Lincoln's Lieber Code made it possible for women to seek justice in military courts.
- Brazil and Peru quarrel with Amazon.com over ".amazon" domain name.
- Stock of potential names for rock bands are dwindling, but it's not because English is running out of words.
- Pages from the working notebooks, the “Cahiers,” are written in fluid, all but illegible script, suggesting that Proust wrote quickly and easily.
- Photographer takes portraits of every person in Oxford, Iowa, in 1984 and again in 2005.
- On the enduring allure of vintage snapshots.
- Healthy, inexpensive, environmentally friendly solution for housing millions of retiring baby boomers: the trailer park.
- New study reveals net cost of attending prom is $1,139 per person—a 40% increase from 2011.
- McDonald's is one of Britain's biggest educators, with 1m applicants a year, accepting only one in 15.
- Poem for a spring Friday: Joyce Kilmer's "Trees."
