March 26, 2013: Afternoon
By The Morning News
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- If I could snap my finger and get rid of all the guns, I would. I think they're evil. ... People are making money off them, and people are dying.
- North Korea says missiles are targeting Hawaii, Guam, and the mainland U.S.—more of a message to its own citizens than the world.
- Vietnam veteran Mike Boehm finds shared healing with the survivors of the U.S. massacre at My Lai.
- Before the war, the U.S. government tried to lure tourists to Vietnam with promises of sex and hunting.
- Spain's attempt to revive Jewish heritage attracts tourists but misrepresents religion.
- Gucci shopaholic Buzz Bissinger comes clean about his habit, which has cost him upward of a half-million dollars since 2010.
- Related: A gallery of Bissinger's outfits.
- John Jeremiah Sullivan addresses animal consciousness and the human divide.
- It's too late to eradicate the fungus killing ash trees—UK government to plant 250,000 in hopes of finding resistant strains.
- To use breakthrough technologies as a means of shoring up old patterns of thought and action is to court disaster.
- After a computer fails to identify optical illusions, scientists question famous study that attributed illusion-recognition to culture.
- How to score an A in Lit 311, if your professor is Nabokov.
- In underpopulated Singapore, revised fairytales urge procreation.
- To assuage drought, Georgia attempts to redraw state boundaries and claim part of Tennessee.
- Psychologists explain the science of earworms and how to get "Call Me Maybe" out of your head.
- Get married, don't get married, do whatever you want...It's the opinion of this court that we don't give two shits what you do.
