August 1, 2011: Morning
By The Morning News
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- "More disgusted than delighted," Obama sells compromise to liberals.
- Rallying votes, Boehner thanks Tea Party newbies for getting GOP's priorities to the finish line.
- The debt-ceiling deal "is a catastrophe on multiple levels," for Democrats and the country.
- Smaller-government fans triumph.
- American-embassy design hampered by rules, moats, and ugliness.
- Prepare to cry: "A Boy and His Bot," about the first American child to attend school via robot.
- Before-and-after portraits of joggers in Paris's Bois de Boulogne.
- Ragtime master can play four symphonies simultaneously in his mind. Really.
- Raunchy young-adult novels "give kids a glimpse of a more mature world; they also reflect their actual reality."
- Sex concerns for seniors: STDs, exercise, and the aging of Robert Redford.
- Algorithmic challenges behind Match.com.
- 23andMe recruiting 10,000 African-Americans to shift European tilt in genetic research.
- Nigeria to prosecute parents who interfere with polio vaccinators.
- Da Vinci's kitchen included giant bellows, horses, oxen, chaos.
- Magazine sales on iPad finds The New Yorker leading Condé Nast titles with low-tech, "all about reading" app.
- Alex Ross on Oscar Wilde.
- Very useful PDF of writing tips from the Poynter Institute.
- TMN editors', writers', and readers' preferred hot-weather drinks, from "Summer Beer" to "Bodega Sunsets."
