September 13, 2013: Afternoon
By The Morning News
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- National Guard sent to rescue the 2,000 residents of flood-besieged Lyons, Colo.
- The more we fixate on chemical weapons as "bad" warfare, the more we make conventional weapons seem like "good" warfare.
- Japan to file formal complaint over French newspaper's inappropriate jokes about Fukushima in relation to 2020 Olympics.
- Yemen faces environmental ruin from "exhausted aquifers, unchecked deforestation, and rapid urbanization."
- Aerial photographs of the astounding garbage left behind by music fans at the Reading Festival.
- Having multiple children now seen as a sign of status and wealth, starting a new baby boom.
- Vatican's Secretary of State says ecclesiastical celibacy is up for discussion.
- Related: The pope is forbidden to use a bidet, and other revelations about the papacy.
- It created a back order so huge that the businesses couldn't make pumps for anybody else for more than a year.
- Despite what you've heard, left-handedness is not a major cause of death, and Harry Potter is not a murderer.
- "Iowa grants permits for blind residents to carry guns in public; sheriffs and advocates divided on whether that's a good idea."
- Many states beginning to legalize online gambling; only bettors getting better all the time.
- Quiz: Test your knowledge of city nicknames.
- Critic attempts to sell Shakespeare-hater on the Bard's current bumper crop on New York City stages.
- Ugly Animal Preservation Society selects the ugliest animals in the world.
- Friday's Tumblr: Ed Ruscha's famous pop art paintings of words, in web jargon.
- Fact for the weekend's recreation: Tennis players only play tennis for about 16% of a match, but that's better than baseball or football.
