November 11, 2013: Morning
By The Morning News
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- Over the past decade lung cancer cases in Beijing have jumped by more than 50%—officials blame smoking and air pollution.
- China's pollution is damaging sperm, exacerbating a shortage at sperm banks that's driven black-market prices up to $5,000.
- California wine seller charged with creating more than $1.3 million in counterfeit wines may claim insanity.
- In order to compete with other high-end grocers, Whole Foods is experimenting with lower prices at certain stores.
- Liberals tend to like Christie because he was nice to Obama, but they shouldn't pretend they'd like him as president.
- George W. Bush's association with Jews for Jesus casts suspicions he may have been trying to trigger the apocalypse after all.
- For new atheists who miss the church community, there's a mega-non-church for that.
- When the president stays in hotels that are more than likely bugged, he always packs his portable cone of silence.
- Tyler Brûlé meets a bad chair.
- Some...have designed games that revolve around fleeting moments in order to create spaces for contemplative play.
- If you're driving a car, it's not OK to kill a cyclist, but you wouldn't know that from looking at the legal outcomes.
- Related: For those behind the wheel, Matthew Baldwin explains how to not kill a cyclist.
- TMN's Michael Erard wants to launch a magazine about language and life, and he needs your support.
- How selling out saved indie rock.
- The next morning, [Oswald] left behind his wedding ring—which Marina recently auctioned for $108,000—and $187 in cash.
