September 29, 2011: Morning
By The Morning News
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- A month after the White House promised a crackdown, 2,900 illegal immigrants with criminal records arrested.
- Reebok to pay $25 million in arrears over toning shoe health claims, but stands behind its technology.
- Michael Moore at the Wall St. protests.
- Last year only 60 children were adopted in the UK, though the number of children awaiting adoption keeps increasing.
- The class divide of America's fertility: 40% of corporate women are childless, 50% of pregnancies are unplanned.
- Masterpiece Theatre's Missed Connections.
- PETA, still planning to launch its porn site, calls out the Times's "sexy chicken" photo.
- In-vitro meat is being grown in a Canadian lab.
- Mud microbe discovery puts researcher in center of high-profile scientific bullying.
- Newburgh [NY] does not look, from a distance, like a community mired in High Noon levels of lawlessness.
- In 1861, Olmsted helped create maps that showed slavery's economic unsustainability.
- Self-described "world's dumbest armchair strategist" tries military video game designed to teach counterinsurgency.
- Artist Photoshops celebrity faces onto bodies of Russian war generals.
