Headlines from November 5, 2012

Watch: the grim situation in Staten Island. #video
The overall atmosphere was upbeat rather than depressing, but there was a very strong defiant air.
Donate from afar: an Amazon wish list for Staten Island Sandy relief supplies.
Photographer explains how he shot the half-illuminated New York cover.
Beautiful, long-exposure images from blacked-out lower Manhattan. #photos
A New York artist’s flood-line project, begun in 2007, started a conversation about rising water that never took hold.
Also devastated during Sandy: Chelsea galleries, many of which may be gone for good. #art
It’s like the Wild West. A borderline lawless situation. Horrific accounts of the post-Sandy Rockaways.
U.S. wildlife populations are surging into human-inhabited areas.
Former Outside editor of reflects on his role in building the Lance Armstrong legend.
U.S. suicides increased sharply in the first years of the recession.
Interactive: 512 ways to win the White House. #chart
Explained: the most likely paths for Obama or Romney to win the presidency. #chart
We’ve got a right-wing government up here too, eh. Canadians would welcome U.S. election sore losers.
Candidates’ flaws highlighted in editorials endorsing them.
Obama and Romney’s most commonly uttered phrases and promises from the campaign trail.
When the Redskins win their last game before a presidential election, so does the incumbent party—yesterday, they lost.
Also up for grabs on Tuesday: right to life, right to death, right to marijuana.
What would happen if we scrapped Congress. #video
Do hormones drive women’s votes? Postcards from the suffragist era.
Todd Oldham critiques ballot designs. #video
Whether Romney wins or not, the GOP faces an internal civil war over demographics and radicals.
Latest Christoph Niemann column explains the electoral college in M&Ms.
If 16-year-olds want to vote, they should move to Argentina, or possibly Indonesia.
Want to use your need for sexual connection to help others? Consider work as a sex surrogate.
Radio host becomes 18th journalist killed this year in Somalia, world’s most dangerous place for reporters, along with Syria.
Italian newspaper La Repubblica angered by Romney comparing Italy to Spain and Greece.
Survey concludes that of the almost 200 countries in the world only 22 have never been invaded by Britain.
South African photojournalist Pieter Hugo documents the Amtrak corridor from New York to DC.
Map shows spatial distribution of executions in Stalin’s Moscow. via
When a natural disaster strikes, try not to be in Russia, where the government has contempt for victims.
In New York, 40,000 people left homeless after the devastation of last week’s storm.
Tri-state area keeps wary eye on nor’easter set to pummel shores on Wednesday.
Finally: “A pair of ski goggles that let you read your emails while on the slopes.”
I always want to take a blue pencil to Emma Bovary’s overextended death throes. Ian McEwan blogs about the novella’s blessed brevity.
Ode to Patrick Leigh Fermor, bold traveler, walker, and acquirer of crabs.
Children arrive in the world with predetermined abilities, proclivities, and temperaments that parents “can rarely reverse.”
Devotees of Star Wars build custom Stormtrooper costume for bullied girl. via
Beware of blue tops and prancing unicorns, or, how to spot a batch of fake Sriracha sauce.