February 11, 2013: Morning
By The Morning News
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- With NASA no longer sending humans into space, would-be astronauts turn their hopes to the private sector.
- As the Bush email hack shows, breaking into a presidential account isn't the only way to access executive-level info.
- It is startling how little [Bush] managed to move the rhetoric and worldview of his party.
- In Switzerland, where gun ownership is common, weapons are tightly regulated—and still capable of carnage.
- At firing ranges across the country, a growing number of women are learning to use firearms and honing their skills.
- Some 100K Hong Kong residents live in "inadequate housing," including cages.
- Some NYC landlords choose the homeless—and the city money that comes with housing them—over traditional tenants.
- For decades, officials have repeatedly blocked Iran from purchasing the materials to build nuclear weapons.
- For more than 100 years, a Florida school for wayward children was a den of abuse, neglect—even death.
- Britain's Food Standards Agency says to expect more reports of horsemeat in frozen meals.
- One of Moscow's most notorious high-speed drivers—who's posted many of his hijinks on YouTube—is arrested.
- A look at Botswana's heavy-metal bands.
- Related: Elizabeth Kiem's listening guide to the Timbuktu music festival now in limbo.
- Starr Saphir, who led bird-watching tours through Central Park for nearly four decades, dies at 73.
