August 8, 2011: Morning
- A U.S. ban on conflict minerals has helped the Congolese warlords it intended to depose.
- Researchers find that birds abused as chicks grow up to abuse others.
- In Chile, anti-government protestors accuse rescued miners of selling out, throw fruit.
- After 12 years of diminished hauls, Long Island lobstermen either hang on or switch targets.
- As meat prices go up, so do the number of sheep thefts in England.
- A chaplain performed thousands of baptisms to help Austrian Jews escape pre-WWII.
- Fearful of phone hacking, customers flock to spy stores for identity-protecting gizmos.
- A new racket posts all Florida mugshots online, as competitors offer removal for $20 to $1,200.
- America's least dangerous convicts should be able to choose lashes over jail.
- Cape Cod police struggle to maintain vacation-friendly idyll amidst drug-fueled theft.
- Malkovitch, Sands stage Pinter tribute.
- Naysayers rejoice: Antibacterial soaps are probably making us sicker.
- 1911 article on the critic who changed Mark Twain's career.
- A collection of literary characters' imagined wardrobes.