November 18, 2013: Afternoon
By The Morning News
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- Five decades ago, JFK faced the same quagmire as Obama regarding Medicaid and socializing medicine.
- Novelist and Nobel winner Doris Lessing, who wrote The Golden Notebook, dies at 94.
- Atwood: "If there were a Mount Rushmore of 20th-century authors, Doris Lessing would most certainly be carved upon it."
- Looting more than £300m each year, art and antique theft is the UK's second-most lucrative crime trade—after drugs.
- Belgian toxicologists find trace amounts of cocaine and herpes virus in library books.
- Blockbuster's glory days.
- A photographer traveled across the U.S. 23 years ago to capture mall culture.
- Tour companies now offer invitations to the lavish weddings of strangers in Rajasthan, India.
- Prescription painkillers now kill more Americans than heroin and cocaine combined, according to the CDC.
- Researchers find geographic correlation between obesity and antibiotic prescriptions in the U.S.
- As with the industrial revolution, the new service economy brings dismay—it means the death of the old system.
- The 10 biggest breakthroughs in physics over the past 25 years.
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- William Weaver, who translated Calvino, Eco, and Levi for English readers, died last week at 90.
- See also: Elizabeth Kiem locates Weaver at his upstate NY home.
