August 8, 2014
By The Morning News
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- At the end of a three-day truce in Gaza, Israel resumes airstrikes following Palestinian rocket attacks.
- Russia announces one-year ban on all meat, fruit, and vegetables from the US, EU, Canada, Australia, and Norway.
- Russia, and the world, without Putin.
- Dispatch from VICE reporter embedded with ISIS.
- Three weeks later, another man completed suicide at the same gun range, also using a rented gun.
- Ebola, from a survivor's perspective.
- The New York Times decides it will now use the word "torture " when it knows interrogators inflicted pain to obtain information from a prisoner.
- Animals should not be denied any intellectual property rights simply because they are animals.
- Sex toy doubles as a penis pedometer.
- Adelle Waldman test-drives the male brain.
- One woman took one photograph of herself in a pair of white underpants every year for 40 years.
- One man is trying to restore rapidly crumbling noir film classics.
- An architect who lost his sight has kept working, and is making design work for the blind.
- Blood types exist for no particular reason.
- The sometimes corporate origins of chain restaurants not-so-secret menus—and how to hack them.
- Life as a Magnolia Bakery cupcake bouncer.
