August 29, 2013: Morning
By The Morning News
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- UN weapons inspectors will leave Syria on Saturday, one day ahead of schedule.
- White paper: Military interventions in favor of the rebel faction tend to increase government killings of civilians by about 40%.
- Group proposes naming storms after lawmakers who deny climate change.
- In South Africa, synthetic drugs with ingredients like heroin, detergent, and HIV medication pose a deadly public health threat.
- The gin and tonic was once an emblem of the British empire's success.
- Reportedly, it is impossible to say "I love you" in Vietnamese, but if you do love someone, then you must burn their possessions.
- In 2011, the average age of a first marriage for South Korean women hit 29.14, up from 24.8 in 1990.
- Currently, there are more African-American adults under correctional control than were enslaved in 1850.
- Profile of MediaTakeout, black culture's TMZ, and the lawyer whose headlines get denounced onstage by Kanye.
- Up-and-coming black tennis players credit the Williams sisters, particularly Venus, for showing them what's possible.
- TMN's Sarah Hepola on the pleasures of being able to enjoy a public sauna in the nude.
- Related: A challenge to complete five things before the end of summer, or before you die—whichever comes first.
- I’d like a literal thinking cap. A regular baseball hat, but with the look of an orange or yellow construction hard hat.
- Following up on the Swiss sex-boxes story, signs for public prostitution analyzed for graphic design.
- Ballerina dances atop a grand piano with butcher knives attached to her slippers.
- After 78 years, Monopoly's iron token has been replaced by a cat.
