March 26, 2014
By The Morning News
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- Fourteen dead and 176 still missing in the Washington state mudslide.
- 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.
- 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."
