August 8, 2016
By The Morning News
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- Filipino president links over a hundred government officials to the drug trade, encourages their extrajudicial murder.
- Nuclear scientist Shahram Amiri hanged in Iran for spying for the US.
- Russian athletes banned from competing at the Rio 2016 Paralympics following the country's doping scandal.
- Weightlifting lost its integrity as a sport long ago, but as a spectacle it's better with drugs.
- Michael Phelps wins his 23rd Olympic medal and his 19th gold, both records.
- Thanks to Phelps, "cupping" has its Olympics moment.
- Not to be featured anytime soon in the Olympics: Rapper Warrior Ninja.
- The border between the Netherlands and Belgium in the Dutch village of Baarle zigzags through peoples living rooms.
- Tracking the world's most coveted tea.
- Ultramarathoner adopts stray dog that followed him for 150 miles in the Gobi Desert.
- Sixty years after his death, Einstein's leather jacket still smells of pipe smoke.
- Upper-class supremacy is nothing new in the US, where it shines brightest on people with bad teeth.
- Condemning Trumps comments on Muslims, Senator Collins points to a Somali communitys remarkable transition to Maine.
- To be accepted as transgender in Japan, you need to be diagnosed with a condition that the rest of the world agrees doesnt medically exist.
- Cooperativism, successful abroad, is the economic subtext of the Black Lives Matter platform.
- Map shows the real value of $100 in each state in the US in 2016.
- If you accept that student loan debt will only become a crisis if it increases individual costs beyond the returns to a college degree, youve already given up on public higher education.
- The Library of Congress promised to archive every tweet, but open access would undercut a key Twitter revenue stream.
- Your Monday Twitter discovery: We Want Plates, a crusade against serving food on anything but.
- The Iraq war version of War and Peace is a comic book.
- A small moment in literature: Salman Rushdie comments on Michael Chabon's post of Ayelet Waldman being shushed by Obama.
