August 13, 2012: Morning
By The Morning News
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- Iran earthquakes kill upward of 300, injure 2,600, and flatten villages.
- Royal Dutch Shell, Nigeria’s biggest oil producer, estimates that 150,000 barrels a day are lost to theft.
- Approximately 60,000 pets are abandoned in France every year during summer holidays.
- Super strain of gonorrhea, spotted in 17 European countries in 2010, likely coming to the U.S. soon.
- To imagine America during a Mitt Romney presidency, examine Paul Ryan's goals.
- Ryan on guns, choice, and same-sex marriage.
- Large photographs of the London Olympics' final week.
- Facts and fictions about gentrification in Washington, DC.
- Studies find Americans link moderate drinking at the workplace with stupidity.
- Rich people like dressing their children in extremely expensive clothes, and fashion designers are happy to provide them.
- Vintage photographs show the role of cheesecake in auto marketing.
- Choire Sicha reviews white noise.
- Argentina offers pensions to writers.
- For your reading pleasure: the collected personal works of TMN's Sarah Hepola.
