January 31, 2013: Morning
By The Morning News
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- While Giffords and the NRA's LaPierre addressed the Senate, another mass shooting took place in Arizona.
- NRA admits it doesn't support the idea of extending background checks to gun shows.
- As of 1998, for every time a woman used a handgun to kill in self-defense, 101 women were murdered with a handgun.
- Times says it was hacked for four months after running the story about Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabao's family wealth.
- Top five truths no U.S. official will admit.
- Terrific profile of Norwegian architectural collaborative Snøhetta, producers of the spectacular Oslo Opera House.
- Prince William and Kate Middleton's unborn child already worth $550 million.
- Amazon is a charitable organization being run by elements of the investment community for the benefit of consumers.
- Rebecca Solnit: Everyone praises Silicon Valley, but the area's culture is ruining San Francisco.
- Analysis of whether Hilary/Hillary really is the most rapidly poisoned name in recorded American history.
- Volkswagen Super Bowl ad criticized: "Borderline racism I can take, but lazy, unamusing borderline racism? Why bother?"
- Yo La Tengo's Ira Kaplan on why the band finally decided to make a music video, and why it includes recipes.
- Note to self: Our use of Chinese food takeout boxes has been, until now, horribly inefficient
- Hallmarks from the history of marine art.
- Hater's guide to the Ravens' Ray Lewis.
