Headlines from September 7, 2011

The silent drought in Nairobi slums: Aid organizations’ emergency indicators don’t work in cities.
Forty years on, researchers test willpower of the “marshmallow experiment” participants.
How lawyer-turned-innovator Narcis Monturiol invented the submarine, then was promptly forgotten.
Dutch realize they need a mountain, plan to build it themselves.
Ryan Normandin profiles the MIT grad who runs a thinly disguised web brothel.
Marx was right that capitalism is destructive, just wrong that communism is the solution. #opinions
Google Correlate reveals the search phrases that correspond to Vonnegut’s story shapes.
Arizona to charge one-time $25 “background check fee” for would-be prison visitors.
Former utopia Roosevelt Island has a giant automated vacuum collection system.
Heroin’s new business model: “more discretion and discipline, and better branding and quality control.”
Prediction: As web content declines, intellectuals flock to their Kindles and Economists.
Wildlife Service to reconsider captive chimps, declaring them not just “threatened,” but “endangered.”
In Sweden, drunk elk freed from tree.
UN warns cuts, austerity will lead to stagnation, that stimulus is essential to high employment.
Anticipating China’s Iceland movement is tough—compared to Japan’s economy, is could be soon and steep.
Swiss canton has too many jobs, too much growth, no middle class, dumb low tax policy.
Cities are the greenest, most innovative places, reasserts a new and quantitative science of cities.
Bomb kills nine in Delhi, terror attacks remain concern for India’s growing cities.
Four powerful snapshots of Indian income inequality. #longreads
Children offer themselves to traffickers in India due to hunger, creating huge network of exploitation.
Indian icon of the poor sent jet to fetch sandals, is building personality cult, statues.
It suddenly hits me how alien it has become just to try to define racism, and admit to it.
Scientists consider long-term consequences of killing good bacteria for good, even for the next generation.
U.S. considered most cool nation, Belgium least, according to poll.