February 28, 2013: Morning
By The Morning News
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- Dozens of U.S. companies, including Apple, Facebook, eBay, and Intel back same-sex marriage.
- In addition to a photograph and fingerprinting, [should arrestees] be required to open up for an oral swab?
- A beer monopoly may be imminent, and it's perfectly legal.
- "Harlem Shake" reaches the Middle East, where it's a new form of political protest.
- Iran promises to end nuclear program in exchange for detailed diagram of atomic bomb.
- In Japan, where landlords often forbid pet ownership, cafes charge $11 an hour to sit with a cat.
- Related: A tour of Japan's "love hotels."
- The year I went to 60 bat bitzvahs.
- Fans of TMN's Jessica Francis Kane should watch her calendar: Events are headed your way (or thereabouts) this spring.
- The evolution of the Ikea catalog from 1951 to today.
- The otter may have captured the internet's collective heart, but back home, his swagger has been cut to size.
- Graffiti artists combine Neo-Romanesque and street art styles on the dome of a Barcelona church.