July 23, 2013: Morning
By The Morning News
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- Hundreds of inmates—including senior al Qaeda—escape Abu Ghraib during "military-style assault" against guards.
- NSA general says reports of the agency's snooping has been greatly exaggerated and is causing sources to dry up.
- Why I love writing code for journalism.
- In 2011, 12,300 children nationwide got ER treatment for TV-related injuries, compared with 5,455 in 1990.
- A cellist's song soundtracks the rise and fall of global warming from 1880 onward.
- A borough-by-borough look at the particulates—e.g., pollen, rubber, lipids—found in the air New Yorkers breathe.
- Air tests show cooking smells may in fact carry particulate matter, harmful emissions, and volatile organic compounds.
- Study finds older men who regularly skip breakfast have a 27% higher risk of heart attack.
- Seattle mayor moves to block the opening of a new Whole Foods over poor wages, benefits.
- Former badminton doubles partners brawl at Canada Open.
- New York City in the 1970s.
- Harper Lee files accuses her agent of stealing the copyright and royalties for To Kill a Mockingbird.
- Analysts predict royal baby could give a $372.6 million boost to the UK economy.
- Hitchens in 2011.
- Archaeologists discover an incredibly well-preserved dinosaur tail in northern Mexico.
- Horror stories emerge in the war-crimes tribunal of Pol Pot, whose henchmen may be dead before they face justice.
- How Ethiopia's "Jimma 5" coffee bean, once the most defective, became the favorite of artisanal coffee roasters.
