May 13, 2013: Afternoon
By The Morning News
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- People close to Obama noticed two telltale signs he's been a little down—his low-energy April 30 news conference...and his demand for more campaign-style road trips.
- Recent additions to the literary subgenre of Texas secessionist fantasy.
- Regardless of how you look at it, at all levels, institutions were willing to pay a greater rate for coaching salaries.
- Related: Across the U.S., the highest paid public employees are mostly coaches.
- Studies show people care more about where their coffee is grown than where their clothes are made, though that may be changing.
- Hot-air balloons once ruled the skies, until the dawn of airplanes, which were "primarily weapons of war."
- Sub-Saharan Africa is the riskiest place to be born—it accounts for 38% of the world's first-day deaths.
- India's rape problem may be part and parcel of a larger problem concerning the lack of toilets and basic sanitation.
- Former Guatemalan dictator sentenced to 80 years for genocide that killed more than 200,000 in the 1980s.
- Protests in Tel Aviv over Netanyahu's spending, which includes a $137,744 airplane bed and $2,500 annual ice cream budget.
- NJ cupcake brand unveils 35,800-calorie model in honor of Bloomberg.
- Colorado announces marijuana sales tax: less than cigarettes, more than beer and wine.
- Related: And they don't take American Express.
- New closed-captioning glasses provide breakthrough way for the hearing-impaired to watch movies in theaters.
- "How Bing Crosby and the Nazis helped to create Silicon Valley" by Paul Ford.
- An analysis of words used on Twitter reveals the happiness difference between Saturdays and Tuesdays.
- Portraits of community, recreation, and environmental abuse along the riverbanks of Washington, DC’s, Anacostia neighborhood.
- The "Vows" section, explained.
- The difference between photojournalism and photography is ethics.
