August 28, 2013: Afternoon
By The Morning News
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- At the front lines of the chemical attacks in Syria.
- Another look at the "red line": When chemical weapons are worse than conventional killing.
- An internal debate over bombing Syria.
- The pro-Assad Syrian Electronic Army takes down the New York Times, attacks Twitter and HuffPo in the UK.
- The FBI operative behind William T. Vollmann's forensic profile seems to have enjoyed the work.
- If the NSA sent apology notes to citizens whose correspondence they mistakenly flagged.
- A roundup of reasons why conservatives around the nation think Obama should be impeached.
- The Arlington parking garage where Bob Woodward met with Deep Throat will be demolished.
- Shit, piss, fuck, cunt, cocksucker, motherfucker, and tits: a brief history of censorship and entertainment.
- Obama reviews The Butler.
- In Peru, archaeologists are using drones to survey ruins and monitor threats from squatters and developers.
- Why so many airline pilots seem content these days to let the automated systems do so much of the flying for them is a little baffling.
- An astronaut recalls nearly drowning on a spacewalk.
- The Bay Area is home to some of America's brightest entrepreneurs as well as the nation's worst community colleges.
- Two designers in New York try to change their bad dating habits by dating each other for 40 days.
- To keep an up-to-date, complete hardcopy Wikipedia, you'd need six printers that never stop printing.
