April 30, 2013: Afternoon
By The Morning News
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- Obama says Guantanamo Bay needs to be closed, orders review of operations, plans to "renew discussions with lawmakers" who want it open.
- Boy Scouts leadership recommends banning gay leaders, but not gay scouts.
- At the Nakizumo crying-baby festival in Tokyo, parents hand their babies over to sumo wrestlers.
- For those suddenly interested in Martin Luther King's assassination after watching Mad Men, an account of what happened afterward in New York City.
- Neighborhoods of 25 cities mapped as if they were New York.
- In D.C. neighborhoods, when the city plants trees, soon come drug dealers and gentrifiers.
- Baby boomers enter their golden years with an epidemic of drug and alcohol abuse and mental illness.
- Stories of Techno Viking, Scumbag Steve, and other unwilling internet celebrities.
- In case you missed it, Martin Amis wrote a book about video games.
- PEN/Faulkner award goes to small-press story collection about people living between Juarez and El Paso.
- List of fast-food items that can't be found in America—e.g., the Dry Pork and Seaweed donut.
- Photographs of plane wrecks in remote, exotic locations.
- Astronaut Chris Hadfield addresses the question of how to vomit in space.
- Debbie Harry and Chris Stein explain how they wrote a hit song.
