20 October 2010: Morning By The Morning News — 20 Oct 2010 U.S. wiretaps Mexican drug cartel's San Diego office, uncovers smuggling details, assassination plots. "That is the most sublime form of human cruelty I had ever experienced." Navigating the opaque world of BP claims payments. "But take the money. Move on as best you can. Finality is a good thing." Pearls from BP claims overseer Kenneth Feinberg. Health insurers look forward to positive press, overwhelming public approval over plans to limit cancer treatments. Studies find people feel terrific when fantasizing about revenge, terrible after carrying out the act. How making your own vinegar and the DIY food movement have helped resurrect Sunset. Superstitions and lucky charms improve performance for those who truly believe. Why college students won't give up printed textbooks: familiarity and no threat of Facebook. Prisons go hi-tech to stop the use of cell phones in jail. Fiji loses document certifying its independence from the U.K., asks for photocopy. Now taken for granted, artificial light has rewired our sleep and changed our view of the universe. Sixteenth-century coin suggests the Chinese reached Africa before Europeans.
