July 15, 2014

• Israel accepts Egyptian-brokered proposal for an immediate end to fighting in the Gaza Strip.
• Germany splits up sausage cartel for fixing wurst prices as far back as 2003.
• Pack of legal joints to more likely cost 50 cents than $50, but that's assuming a "Smoke Local" campaign doesn't interfere.
• Gay men's sex lives said to be remade by Truvada, or PrEP, first drug to be approved to prevent HIV infection.
• Airbus seeks to patent a new plane design that resembles a Greek slave galley.
• Moving to Texas can sometimes mean needing to unmarry your wife.
• Nadine Gordimer dies at 90.
• Man earns subdural hematoma through headbanging at a Motörhead show—but doctor says hearing loss is far more the greater risk for fans.
• Nike ad shows sports celebrities, and Action Bronson, tipping their hats to retiring Yankee Derek Jeter.
• New mapping algorithm finds "the most beautiful" route for walking from point A to point B in London.
• Church of England votes to allow women to become bishops.
• Woman later named the "World's Greatest Miser," Hetty Green, was a shrewd investor and a billionaire.
• Nicole Pasulka on the fight and advocates for improving police treatment of transgender people.
• The opposition to pit bulls might not be racist; it does, however, employ racial thinking.
• Profile of John Ostrom, paleontologist who helped start the "dinosaur renaissance."
• Facebook users inflamed by photo of Steve Spielberg sitting next to a triceratops he "killed."