November 21, 2013: Morning
By The Morning News
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- By intervening in Mali, France may have saved other African nations from civil war, which often spills across borders.
- Kenya's sex workers choose antiretroviral drugs over condoms.
- For most Texans, the closest clinic to offer abortions after 20 weeks will stay open—it's in Albuquerque.
- Exiled from Germany by the Nazis in 1933, little is known of Fritz Kahn—but he may have invented the infographic.
- Adhering to Russia's anti-gay law, Ikea removes lesbian couple from local edition of its magazine.
- Vancouver to ban doorknobs, as levers are less discriminatory anyway.
- All the turtlenecks in Love Actually, ranked.
- Pianist tells young musician not to keep a piano at home because it will keep you from working hard.
- Each time I finished reading Gone With the Wind, I began again. It was my Twilight.
- Half of all active Twitter users live in just five countries: the U.S., Japan, Indonesia, the UK, and Brazil.
- A team of entrepreneurs reads Amazon customer reviews to develop can't-miss products to sell on Amazon.
- From the Google Cultural Institute: media from July 7, 1863, to March 11, 1864, on Lincoln's Gettysburg Addresses.
- See also: Lincoln's speech at Gettysburg was just three minutes long and nearly meaningless.
- Mailer's early success made his struggle "to be a man"…into a struggle to distinguish reality from everything around it.
- Two brothers illustrate a book mostly for children.
- In 1977, filmmaker Chantal Akerman captured long shots of life in New York City.
- Researchers find caffeinated coffee may improve the function of small blood vessels.
