November 1, 2012: Afternoon
- Flooding certainly killed a lot of New York City's rats, but the most dominant members survived on the surface.
- Among Sandy's casualties: one of the nation's largest, most valuable collections of lab rats and mice.
- Sloane Crosley: "Where is the line between becoming an isolated premature hunker and a jet-skiing moron?"
- When disaster strikes, the humble pay phone is suddenly in high demand.
- Photos from the Brooklyn McDonald's that saved Halloween.
- Rob Delaney connects the dots between NYU's infant evacuees, Medicaid, and our collective future.
- The other thing no one's discussed much during this presidential campaign: What happens next with the Supreme Court.
- California reports record number of voters—1.4 million of whom are newly registered.
- Urban gardeners fight the good fight.
- What the real Slumdog millionaire did with his winnings.
- In Congo, an armed gang attempts to assassinate a doctor who's treated thousands of rape victims.
- Guesses abound as to the plot of the new Star Wars movies, and whether the original cast might return.
- Most vampire graves stand apart, in wooded spots outside modern cemetery fences, where snow melts slower.