April 17, 2015
By The Morning News
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- Of the five Democrats who may run for president, three will be over 70 on Inauguration Day 2017.
- The distinction between public officials and people with influence can be vague in some countries, including this one.
- Italy pleads for EU assistance in dealing with influx of North African migrants after spate of accidents.
- "Death on the Mediterranean: The Least Worst Option for Many Africans."
- IMF and World Bank meet to discuss euro zone growth.
- Investigation finds World Bank repeatedly violating its own rules for protecting people, leaving a trail of misery behind its projects.
- See also: Darth Vader's military logic, riddled with contradictions, cost the Empire the Battle of Hoth.
- It’s time government employees stopped fondling airline passengers and taking their stuff.
- Tobacco industry accounts for about seven percent of the Chinese government's revenue each year.
- Thirteen percent of US teenagers use e-cigarettes, versus only nine percent who smoke the old-fashioned way.
- Crickets, "the food of the future," aren't quite the protein super-food.
- New York questions legality of "on-call" retail shifts that entail low pay with no means to plan week-to-week.
- Five gay college basketball coaches, all of them closeted professionally, cite homophobia and recruiting troubles.
- Moving to Mars: Tales of survival can only teach so much about the psychological stress of spaceflight.
- On opposite sides of a fault line through California's Hollister, a town literally drifts apart.
- Binge Reading Disorder: When an American consumes 100,000 words a day, and remembers none of them.
- Everything unprecedented about BuzzFeed was prefigured by innovations of earlier ages.
- Video game That Dragon, Cancer chronicles the last years of Joel Green, the developer's son, who died at just four years old.
- Friday poem: "a remix for remembrance," by Kristiana Rae Colón.
