June 25, 2013: Morning
By The Morning News
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- In the U.S. military, 53 percent of sexual assaults involve attacks on men, mostly by other men.
- Among American voters, 56% say a bear would win in a fight between a bear and a shark.
- Berlusconi, in court again, has faced 105 probes and trials, 2,500 court hearings, and spent more than 300 million euros in legal fees.
- Complete, accessible guide to why nobody knows when and how Iran will step across the nuclear threshold.
- "Innovation" used to be associated with heresy, and once resulted in a Puritan having his ears removed.
- Engineering history of the T-shirt cannon, some now equipped with rotating magazines.
- The "cookbook indicator of economic development" measures economic progress by the fame of a country's cuisine.
- Maps of public fruit locations around the world include hand-drawn guides for some American cities.
- See also: Pictures of night skies created with black paper and ashes.
- Fascinating: Risks in daily life measured by "MicroMorts," equivalent to the danger of dying from a car crash on an ordinary day in Britain.
- Hundreds of Chinese students riot after observers attempt to prevent them from cheating.
- Sean Flynn tick-tock follows heroes up to the finish-line at this year's Boston Marathon.
- List of winners who have climbed into the stands at Wimbledon "to embrace their kin or supporters."
- TMN's Rosecrans Baldwin picks five of his favorite celebrity memoirs,
- Related: Baldwin's Paris, I Love You but You're Bringing Me Down released today in paperback.