September 13, 2011: Morning
By The Morning News
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- In his first public address, Libya's interim leader asks rebels to shun anger and forgive.
- Though still invisible in leadership, Libyan women are eager to maintain influence, respect gained during revolution.
- Obama proposes to finance his job bill by ending some tax breaks for oil companies, the rich.
- Camp Victory in Iraq, once a military city of 46,000, will soon be shut down.
- Forget anonymity online, anonymity and expectation of privacy in public places is under threat.
- Chicago Tribune pulls Doonesbury strips excerpting still-unpublished Palin takedown.
- Genetically modifying animals to produce sterile offspring could cut disease, pesticide use, not harm other species.
- Malaria deaths continue to fall sharply, could one day be wiped out, helping half the world's population.
- Alan Wolfe: Rather than define political evil and get abstract, we must confront it—not necessarily with the military.
- Finnish schools owe success to trusting in teachers, catching the weak, lots of outdoor play.
- Once quiet, trains and libraries are now noisy; once raucous, theaters and factories have been tamed.
- Scientists are still trying to perfect the surprisingly difficult art of accurately counting a crowd.
- Inventors continue to try to bring the comic book fantasy of personal jet flight to life.
