August 15, 2013: Morning
By The Morning News
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- Border dispute between India and China diffused with a peaceful exchange of beer and sugar dumplings.
- Camel milk, long overshadowed by "Western" cow's milk, regains popularity in coffee shops and bars across the United Arab Emirates.
- Muslim Brotherhood calls for new protests in Egypt after security forces killed hundreds on Wednesday.
- Egypt's ambassador to the United States: "It became necessary to finish this thing."
- The Muslim Brotherhood's opponents "will welcome the Brothers' rhetorical and actual violence, and use it to whitewash their own."
- Chinese government tracks sales of a famous Chongqing pickle to measure labor migration.
- Many of the Syrians who are now putting such a strain on Hezbollah communities were forced to flee precisely because of Hezbollah’s own involvement in the war.
- Today's biggest container ships can store 746 million bananas, one for every European.
- Fascinating account of Filipino sailors modifying their penises to assert their unique appeal to prostitutes, bosses, and one another.
- Thorough assessments of various suits, safari jackets, and other outfits appearing in James Bond films.
- Among the world's worst prescription-bottle instructions.
- Alabama's luxurious football training center, complete with waterfall, reviewed in light of six consecutive years of tuition raises.
- Tour of the University of Oregon's new football center, paid for by Nike's Phil Knight and fancy enough to make NFL teams jealous.
- Average worth of the NFL’s 32 teams: $1.17 billion, 5% more than last year.
- Tribute to Zander Hollander's thorough and eccentric handbooks to sports, 1971-1997.
- French author finds sexual liberation by quitting sex, to public horror.
- Question posed: Why is feminism stuck while the gay-rights movement keeps progressing?
- Why the summer was stocked with apocalypse films: As a society, we're moving out of death denial into a culture of ongoing self-eulogy.
