August 9, 2013: Morning
By The Morning News
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- Poll shows 40% of white and 25% of non-white Americans only have friends within their own race.
- Oprah Winfrey informed she can't afford Switzerland's more expensive handbags.
- Business owners in Russia have a better chance of ending up in the penal colony system than common burglars do.
- Stephen Fry calls for boycotting the Sochi Olympics.
- Four of the world's five top-ranked female distance race walkers are from Saransk, 320 miles southeast of Moscow.
- Poet and fan goes looking for a dead, modern, semi-radical Russian poet often cited for "her beauty and her small frame."
- Diary from opening day at the Saratoga Race Course.
- After a complex and successful heist of computers from a sex-assault center, burglars return loot and leave apology note.
- Sequestration cuts poised to shut down U.S. "Space Fence," a radar system that tracks satellites and orbital debris surrounding Earth.
- Among Jeff Bezos's other big investments: a clock that will tick for 10,000 years on a remote mountain in Texas.
- "I asked if they saw the problem, perhaps just the symbolism, of Hamlet being banned in the British Library. They shrugged.
- Italian judge pioneers program to remove children from mafia families, then give them a choice to return when they turn 18.
- Dartmouth professor suggests fMRI scans of students' brains could provide a better way to review medical-school applicants.
- Study finds animals—12 animal populations covering 8 different species—are also getting fat.
- The New York Times so loves prosciutto producers from Iowa, it's written about them again.
- Related: Staged photographs of people killed by their food cravings.
