August 26, 2013: Morning
By The Morning News
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- Documents show the Reagan administration knew of, but never disclosed, Saddam's widespread use of chemical weapons.
- This was the birth of the Black Chamber, the NSA's earliest predecessor, and it would be hidden in the nondescript brownstone.
- Coptic Christians in Egypt face an uncertain future.
- Related: How people live normally in a tumultuous Egypt.
- New Delhi court rules that lawful, consensual sex with a minor is not an offense.
- The Farmer's Almanac predicts a colder-than-average winter, with "significant snowfalls" for much of the U.S.
- Astronomy photo of the day: Venus eclipses the Sun (and won't do so again until 2117).
- With beards and stubble officially having a moment, razor companies report sales are taking an unprecedented hit.
- Woody Allen: "My dad didn't even teach me how to shave—I learned that from a cabdriver."
- Excerpts from E.B. White and James Thurber's Is Sex Necessary? Or Why You Feel the Way You Do.
- Anna Gunn of Breaking Bad on the online vitriol she's endured over playing a non-submissive female character.
- A short history of cannibis, LSD, and meth, and how they became illicit substances.
- [The volunteers] remained firm: LSD absolutely had helped them solve their complex, seemingly intractable problems.
- A documentary on J.D. Salinger reveals the author instructed his estate to release five new books as early as 2015.
- All the first lines of all Elmore Leonard's novels.
