February 5, 2014
By The Morning News
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- Afghanistan parliament passes law enabling men to beat their wives and children without fear of prosecution.
- When a gang can't afford rent in its neighborhood anymore, "it becomes a weekend gang."
- See also: With street lamps switched to LED lighting, Los Angeles will never look the same again on film.
- Primer on the spread of rebel attacks in the North Caucasus.
- Related: Primer on the eight sports debuting at the Sochi Olympics.
- Details of life in the underground, or, what it's like to be gay in Putin's Russia.
- The Kremlin doesn't fear mass protests, but the "exploitation of this discontent" by greedy elites.
- Collaboration between Stanford and the Bibliothèque nationale de France produces 14,000 images of the French Revolution.
- Anne Frank's marbles surface after an old friend finds them while moving.
- To save money, states transfer abused children within families, rather than pay for foster care.
- For parents of young children, a lost blankie or toy spells certain doom.
- Of various predicting groundhogs, North Carolina's Mortimer boasts 100% accuracy; Pennsylvania's Punxsutawney Phil is right only 39% of the time.
- How to build a meal composed of recipes by 19th-century black cookbook authors.
- Restaurant offers a prefix dinner, but probably not a suffix one.
- Editor of the Times's "Modern Love" column breaks down nearly 10 years of submissions into "sneakers" and "restorers."
- Drug lord explains how he transitioned from schoolteacher to crime boss.
- Chad Harbach says American writers are NYC or MFA.
- Town wants apology from novelist Haruki Murakami for saying its residents are litterbugs.
