February 1, 2013: Morning
By The Morning News
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- Fourteen-year-old student wounded in a shooting yesterday outside a middle school in Atlanta.
- Fifteen-year-old honors student, shot and killed after school on Tuesday, previously starred in a video urging fellow students to avoid gangs.
- Study: "Stand your ground" gun laws increase manslaughters and murders by eight percent.
- Rolling Stone article investigates how the NRA "thwarts regulation and helps put military-grade weapons in the hands of killers."
- Vladimir Putin did not—repeat: did not—hire Boyz II Men to encourage more sex in Russia.
- Thanks to oil, North Dakota is booming, and men on pay day can't buy lemonade because they've only got hundreds in their wallets.
- The pot smoker I want to be resembles the drinker I once was: occasional, responsible, social, after-hours.
- Fashion professionals treated for diarrhea from eating too much kale.
- From the archives, delightful stories of sickness and health for weekend e-reading.
- Television creators now film with "binge-viewing" in mind, but new series are being cancelled because viewers wait too long to start shows.
- Kevin Fanning: To insist performers shouldn't lip-sync is to deny what we truly want from music.
- Oliver Sacks on memory.
- Diary of the ups and downs of '80s Hollywood kings Jerry Bruckheimer and Don Simpson.
- Jess Walter: "Statistical Abstract for My Home of Spokane, Washington."
- Interview with anthropologist who lived with Bay Area hackers for three years.
- Janitor spends seven years drawing incredibly intricate maze.
