July 31, 2013: Morning
By The Morning News
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- A fair election will find Mugabe pushed out of power; only Africa's other leaders can make that happen.
- Assessment of what America would look like, based on internal documents and interviews with former aides, 200 days into Mitt Romney's first term.
- Toyota donates efficiency in lieu of money to New York Food Bank.
- Chinese Pizza Hut salad bars feature ingenious, enormous fruit and vegetable structures.
- Two new colas, Paris Cola and Parisgo Cola, launch in France at the same time, saying they've got "terroir" that Coca-Cola lacks.
- Gay bars boycott Russian vodka due to Kremlin's poor treatment of homosexuals—but it may just be an act of "slacktivism."
- Edible mathematics, "a vibrant new culinary field," includes sconic sections, tangram toasts, and the Möbius bagel.
- The days of buying pornographic videos with names based on Ben & Jerry's ice cream flavors are over.
- Fox-famous academic Reza Aslan's generous use of expletives on Twitter suggests he may have a mean streak.
- Royal Observatory's shortlist for the 2013 Astronomy Photographer of the Year contest.
- Just so you know: In America, if you find a dinosaur in your backyard, that is now your dinosaur.
- Despite a vastly shrinking gene pool, Nepal's wild tiger population has increased by 63% in the past four years.
- Portraits of one woman's struggle with heroin.
- See also: Reddit "Ask Me Anything" with Tommy Swerdlow, who wrote Cool Runnings and Shrek while strung out on heroin.
- Last year's New Yorker profile of Ben Stiller, talking about his upcoming adaptation of James Thurber's “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty.”
- Related: Trailer for The Secret Life of Walter Mitty.
