August 18, 2011: Morning
By The Morning News
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- Defense Dept. report finds Army did not properly test body armor, may have substandard field protection.
- Downgraded by Fitch, New Jersey's credit is now the third-worst in the U.S., ahead of California and Illinois.
- Capybara, the world's largest rodent, is now roaming California's wastewater treatment plants.
- New York parents caught with any amount of marijuana may lose kids to foster care.
- Peru halt coca eradication efforts, saying the program has had little effect.
- A post-mortem on Jonathan's Card, the free-for-all Starbucks experiment.
- Can we trust what we remember from Sept. 11? How our brains process threat can alter memory.
- Going undercover at the 12th Annual Gathering of the Juggalos, "the scariest place in America besides jail."
- British spies devised ways to dose Hitler with estrogen, hoping to make him more like his sister Paula.
- Back to the Future creator turns up online to explain how Doc and Marty became friends.
- Pilots compete in the aeronautical pentathlon, a competition to see whose survival skills reign supreme.
- Canada reinserts "Royal" in its military.
- Help start a new sports magazine, staffed by a pack of writers and editors you know and love.