June 26, 2013: Morning
By The Morning News
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- Advocates say Republicans across the U.S., ignoring more pressing issues, have launched “a new war on women.”
- Due to last-minute chaos, Republicans unable to pass a bill that would have closed nearly every abortion clinic in Texas.
- Data shows Southern whites display "more racial antagonism and ideological conservatism" than non-Southern whites.
- Obama bypasses Congress with new environmental legislation and pollution controls.
- Hyper-realistic installation of a beached whale and scientists on the bank of the Thames.
- Writer tours with journeyman Huey Lewis in small midwestern cities.
- Map depicts the most popular brand in every state.
- Popular dog and cat names in the Middle Ages.
- Forty years later, a writer looks into the causes, effects, statistics, and consequences of a car hitting a seven-year-old boy.
- Today’s scientists are pretty certain that the problem of teleology at the individual organism level has been licked.
- Stealing other people's ideas used to be the American way; now it's the Chinese way, and it's no big deal.
- Thomas Jefferson, Steve Jobs, and Estée Lauder all had obsessive-compulsive personality disorder.
- USA renews Burn Notice, Royal Pains, Burn Collar, Covert Notice, Royal Affairs, and Legal Burns.
- To prepare for an appearance on Jeapordy!, "play lots of Sporcle, and steer clear of bar trivia."
- Highly awarded ad campaign credited with dropping the suicide-by-train rate in Melbourne by 21%.
- Wednesday poem: "Are All the Break-Ups in Your Poems Real?" by Aimee Nezhukumatahil.
