July 11, 2013: Morning
By The Morning News
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- Approximately 29,000 prisoners join hunger strike in California to protest system conditions.
- The dream of eliminating infectious disease—e.g., MERS, SARS, AIDS—is dead.
- Egypt's political cartoons increasingly stifled.
- Police report shows there are now more elderly shoplifters than teenaged ones in Tokyo.
- World's largest man-made structure opens in China, housing hotels, a beach resort, and an artificial sun.
- North Carolina was once considered a beacon of farsightedness in the South; Republicans are quickly dismantling that reputation.
- Interactive map measures how wealthy rappers really are versus how wealthy they claim to be in their lyrics.
- Related: Jay-Z collaborates with performance artist Marina Abramovic to perform new single for six hours straight.
- People named Kevin, Jordan, Cindy, or Dylan much less likely to receive high scores on French university exams.
- New TMN column, "Press Pause," on the basics of journalism: How to read the news about Snowden.
- In India's lower house of parliament, 162 out of 543 members have criminal cases against them.
- Rate of suicide among American Indian youth is nearly four times the national average.
- Miss Teen America surrenders her cell phone and any contact with her mother to spend a day in the woods.
- For the modern athlete, the question isn't whether breasts get in the way—it's a question of how to compete around them.
- "What It's Like to Kill Thousands of NYC Rodents For a Living."
