August 5, 2013: Morning
By The Morning News
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- Wendy Davis succeeded against endemic misogyny to make her voice heard in the male-dominated Texas Capitol.
- Though women are represented at the state level, just one woman, sworn in on Friday, holds office in the entire LA government.
- If we cannot face the root issue—that we let people die because we did not like them—AIDS will become a blip on our moral radar.
- Hall of Fame defensive tackle Art Donovan, who died yesterday at 89, was one of Letterman's most popular guests in the '80s.
- A thorough explanation of why New York's good-intentioned ban on shark fins likely won't reduce illegal trade.
- Designed for astronaut companionship, Kirobo is the first talking humanoid robot to fly into space.
- India to halt production of Mumbai's iconic yellow-capped taxis.
- Interesting but ineffective product boycotts.
- Artist packs luxurious 12-course meal, including pickled kobe beef and vanilla tuile, into a can.
- Australian zoologist-turned-baker makes scientifically realistic cakes that actually look like planets.
- Toby Barlow and TMN's Rosecrans Baldwin talk Paris.
- Many people look at President Bush and see a trajectory that's not dissimilar from the reappraisal that Harry Truman went through.
- Slackers won the American Revolution, and the other reasons why Gen X needs to fix the nation all over again.
- How Brewster's Millions took the power away from auteurs and placed it back in the hands of studios.
- Since the '80s, Huntington Beach has changed from a surfer/skater paradise to a neo-Nazi hotbed to a walking ad for sex.
