March 10, 2017
By The Morning News
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- Top State Department drugs official encourages other countries to decriminalize narcotics.
- Some nine million Americans have private wells with dangerously high levels of lead, according to Virginia Tech projections.
- Bus of journalists attacked, set on fire, during a press tour organized by the Committee Against Torture.
- The unethical practice of publishing mug shots accounts for five percent of the Tampa Bay Times’s web traffic.
- Flippant comment by former Gawker editor about sex tapes involving four-year-olds does not go well in court.
- Of the nearly 30,000 North Korean refugees to make it safely to South Korea, 70% are women.
- See also: Escaping from hell (North Korea) into purgatory (Russia).
- Fifteen notable women of color who made waves in 2015.
- New York neighborhoods applied to maps of other cities.
- Father applies Toyota's management philosophy to family problems, suddenly is able to eat dinner with his kids.
- Unrelated: Full history of Trump Steaks.
- Now that waiting in line is considered “unenlightened,” upper-end stores hide the cash register.
- Lots of information on whether money causes happiness; conclusion: more income makes you happier, but only a little.
- During last night's Democratic debate, former Obama aides sparred on Twitter over Clinton's auto bailout attacks.
- Sanders won Michigan in part by openly courting its Muslim population.
- The always-excellent Peter Hessler on living-room politics in upper Egypt.
- The mutability of "lol."
- Comparison of US and UK covers for this year's Tournament of Books titles.
- Today in the TOB, Brad Listi reads The Sympathizer and Oreo, debut novels separated by 40 years.
- Buy the commemorative ToB Memo Book for $2 and Field Notes will match your $2 and donate $4 to 826 National.
