August 1, 2013: Morning
By The Morning News
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- Zimbabwe's prime minister Tsvangirai calls election a "huge farce," with elaborate vote-rigging by Mugabe.
- Reporters struggle to describe bustling neighborhood completely destroyed by Assad in Syria's third-largest city, Homs.
- Portraits of possessionless, religious nomads in India and Nepal.
- Occupy-style protests, underwritten by the Service Employees International Union, strike America's fast-food chains.
- The people of Belgium, like those of the euro zone, are trapped in an unhappy arranged royal marriage. They keep going because they don’t dare end it.
- History snippet for Thursday: Tribute to Captain Cailloux, the first black warrior-hero of the Civil War.
- Oldie but goodie: Mix Tape for a Dead Girl.
- Ethically-questionable study finds emotional deprivation is associated with lowered IQ and increased mental heath problems.
- We will spend $150 million a year to detain 166 men until the end to the war on terror. But, like the war on drugs, the war on terror will never end.
- Christian community Miracle Village, Fla., is a village of 200 people, half of whom are registered sex offenders.
- Stephen King's family now includes five novelists, four of whom have books being published this year.
- Related: Best 10 paperbacks of 2013 (so far).
- Expat life in Afghanistan.
- Warren Buffett confesses to being a major Breaking Bad fan, praises Walter White's business savvy.
- Survey of the world's hyper-polyglots—people who can speak more than 12 languages.
- See also, King of the hyper-polygots: Emil Krebs, German diplomat who knew 65 languages and happily swore in dozens.
