November 13, 2013: Morning
By The Morning News
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- Merger of American Airlines and US Airways approved after the airlines yield slots at major airports.
- Small-scale British drug dealers launder their dirty money through gambling machines in pubs.
- Micro bubbles in America's real-estate market, coupled with low mortgage rates, create windfalls for a few, instability for most.
- People who run marathons should be congratulated; too bad they're so busy congratulating themselves.
- Nigeria presents a giant opportunity for online retailers, but doing business there presents "a nightmare."
- Man in Alberta, Canada, keeps a buffalo for a pet, but it's no longer allowed inside the house to watch TV.
- In memoriam: Arthur Danto, philosopher and possible father of postmodernism, who claimed he witnessed the end of art.
- Researchers puzzle over why Russian whalers killed 180,000 whales in a few years with little demand for whaling products back home.
- Editor in 1898 lists the hundred best novels ever written—and most will be unknown to the modern reader.
- The statistic that women talk 2.8 times more than men can be traced back to a 2006 book that draws from a dubious 1993 marriage guidance pamphlet.
- American censors appear to tell TV viewers that rape and violence are less obscene than female masturbation.
- Photos of female farmers, a vastly growing yet continually ignored aspect of the changing agricultural industry.
- See also: Photographs of a New Mexico town during the Great Depression remade to be females-only.
- Wild boars and deer pose environmental and human risks for Japan, and the only ones to stop them are female hunters.
- In college basketball news, Michigan State scores early win over top-rated Kentucky, and a fan uses his Usher impression to celebrate.
- Timelapse video of Albuquerque's 42nd annual International Balloon Fiesta.
