June 13, 2013: Morning
By The Morning News
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- Caffeine withdrawal now registered as a mental health disorder, though medical professionals argue over the classification.
- Excellent study done of women turned away from abortion clinics.
- Governor Sam Brownback has turned Kansas into "an ultraconservative utopia" for Tea-Party policies.
- Also by Binelli: Michigan's "Crack Rock City" is being saved by motorcycle men.
- Before World War II, Mussolini shipped homosexuals to an island for punishment and inadvertently created a gay haven.
- Pictures from central Europe's disastrous flooding, wreaking havoc unseen in decades.
- See also: Photographs of French people floating in midair in supermarkets.
- Of America's rural counties, 1,261 of 1,976 have shrinking population counts.
- Classic board game Life to be played in real life on remote, eight-square-mile Japanese island.
- Head of Domino's Pizza in Japan presents a "dajare," or Japanese pun that translates to English oddly, every night.
- Introductory guide to Japan's photo-heavy and frequently instructional menswear magazines.
- Kanye West gives incredibly good quotes in long interview about his new album and future plans.
- David Letterman likes to ask about his musical guests' drums and then compliment them.
- To understand why the Spurs won—and why they have been one of the best teams in the league over the last decade-plus—it helps to read a certain 1990 paper in an economics journal.
- Bird lovers compare America's cats—90 million pets, plus 70 million ferals—to kudzu, "an immense ecological problem."
- Global sales for e-cigarettes, now smoked by Catherine Deneuve, jumped 30% in each of the previous three years to around $2 billion in 2011.
