Headlines from March 26, 2014

Fourteen dead and 176 still missing in the Washington state mudslide. #photography
Gender divides the Supreme Court in Hobby Lobby case regarding contraception coverage in corporate health plans.
Writer boils Michelle Obama’s virtues down to five essential traits of a good first lady.
Crimea and its battlefields helped make Tolstoy great.
Vladimir Putin’s aversion to technology makes him very hard to spy on.
Inside G4S, the private-security company three times larger than the British military with $12 billion in annual revenue.
Google strikes deal with the maker of Oakleys and Ray-Bans in hope of making wearable computers look cool.
Having spent 33 hours over the course of a year interviewing Mr. Rumsfeld, I fear I know less about the origins of the Iraq war than when I started.
Nearly 90% of Venice’s citizens voted to secede from Italy in an unofficial, nonbinding referendum.
Syria conflict causes polio vaccination efforts to wane; outbreak forces families to cross borders for treatment.
Strand Magazine publishes never-before-seen Tennesse Williams story, “Crazy Night,” in which sex in college is akin to lining up for vaccines.
Rapper Twista uses 1,287 words in the song “Mista Tung Twista,” rapping four times faster than Jay Z.
P. Diddy maintains he was always Puff Daddy and would like to be called by his rightful name again.
“Lacquerheads” hunt down old bottles of nail polish, and may “swatch”—test out polish—up to 50 times a day.
“Elephant dung” coffee, also known as “black ivory”, costs $1,500 a kilogram.
The NSA pulps 100 million documents every year that get recycled to make pizza boxes and food cartons. Paper survives.
British designers create an edible, blob-like water container as an alternative to plastic bottles.
New parenting study reveals parents who read parenting studies likely to go “fucking ape-shit.”