August 13, 2013: Morning
By The Morning News
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- Big pictures of war-torn Syria, now split into three regions.
- Federal judges throws out discrimination claims against Paula Deen, but the sexual harassment component of the suit remains.
- Report: Redskins' name only offensive if you think about what it means.
- As the PED scandal threatens to destroy many players, it's the best thing to happen to Pete Rose in 25 years.
- Out of more than 5,000 patients diagnosed as depressed, nearly two-thirds did not meet the criteria for depression.
- Participants in a study scored lower on IQ tests after being asked to relive rejection episode.
- Profiles of men for whom contracting AIDS was a sought-after goal that once achieved, improved their lives.
- From New York to Nintendo Power, the first issues of 19 magazines.
- Peter Schjeldahl experiences the Warholian nature of the Andy Warhol grave webcam.
- Ann Beattie on footnotes.
- The problem with portraying geeky girls in cinema: "The identities seem to cancel out."
- Photographer Francois Brunelle finds two people, "totally unrelated," who look like twins.
- New fad in which people share telephone numbers—sometimes even bank information and home addresses—surfaces in Japan.
- In Aimee Bender's "Americca," a family receives relatively useless household gifts from a mysterious source.
- "Histomap" from 1931 attempts to explain the entire history of the world in one color-coded chart.
- Footage emerges of Jerry Lewis's infamous The Day the Clown Cried, so repugnant that he vowed to lock it away forever.
