July 18, 2011: Afternoon
By The Morning News
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- France wrestles with its latest Anglo import, "le binge drinking," bans nighttime alcohol sales.
- Recalling empty weekend subways.
- Owning a dog in Iran means paying smugglers to break a fatwa--and taking your pooch for unseen walks.
- As Coney Island undergoes a family-friendly makeover, some businesses are being pushed off the boardwalk.
- Historians try to recreate the smell of the past, preserve today's odors for future.
- With less money being spent to produce books, more typos are making their way to hardcovers.
- How the Chilean miners, one year later, have dealt with the jealousy, therapy, and fame of their now-public lives.
- We're bad at innovating payment, but the world's biggest companies are counting on the smartphone to make the biggest break in 60 years.
- Last Habsburg heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne dies; body to be laid to rest in Vienna, heart in Hungary.
- Infamous tween singers Prussian Blue have change of heart after embracing Dylan, marijuana, and life in Montana.
- Now leading the world in in-vitro fertilization, Israel grows families by covering fertility costs.
- While science tries to stop a desert, drought may become the new normal in the Southwest U.S.
