August 19, 2013: Morning
- [PTSD] is not a barrier to being redeployed. Not when the Army needs its most experienced soldiers to wrap up the war.
- The FCC's Mignon Clyburn on how cheaper prison phone calls will strengthen families and help legal representation.
- From 1975, Warren Buffett makes the case against playing the market in a letter about investing pension accounts.
- Why we think we're safer from threats than the average person, even when that's statistically impossible.
- Profiles of the bloggers who are turning their descents into Alzheimer's into permanent memories.
- Some 35 years after a Hamptons love affair, a couple re-meets, weds.
- Tycoon plans to turn the site of a World War II concentration camp in Belgrade into the biggest shopping mall in the Balkans.
- Forever 21 demotes all non-managerial full-time employees to part-time to evade Obamacare requirements.
- Glen Greenwald: "Even the Mafia had ethical rules against targeting the family members of people they felt threatened by."
- Supercut of Harrison Ford angrily pointing at things.
- Combining embroidery, quilting, and trapplique into "Quiltimation": an animated textile.
- An interactive tour of New York visualizes how the city has changed after 12 years of Bloomberg.
- Twin Shadow covers 10cc's "I'm Not in Love."
- Self-reinvention was one of punk's great rites, its voodoo homage to Thatcherism, and no one worked harder at it than [Strummer].
- Poet John Hollander dies at 83.
- Japanese Tetris champion breaks world record by zapping 40 lines in 20 seconds.