November 18, 2013: Morning
By The Morning News
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- The worst job in DC: Obama cabinet member.
- Science may find cures for rare childhood diseases—but for parents, eventually isn't soon enough.
- Why do we ban cigarettes to minors [when] it’s OK to have 12-year-olds getting nicotine poisoning in the fields?
- China is ending its one child policy for many families—what that eventually will mean for its society.
- As abortion restrictions tighten across the U.S., 26 women tell the stories of their abortions.
- An interactive news timeline of same-sex marriage in the U.S., from 1970 to 2013.
- American ballerina Joy Womack quits the Bolshoi after a director allegedly demanded $10,000 for a part.
- From September: "[Womack] has a meeting with the head of the Theatre in a few days time, which will decide her future."
- Butterball has a shortage of large, fresh turkeys, and either doesn't know why, or isn't letting on.
- It's the biggest year yet for pumpkin-flavored products that contain little to no pumpkin.
- Scientists are increasingly referring to the ocean's future prospects as "hot, sour and breathless."
- Jokes North Koreans tell.
- During the "brutal" Lego job interview, prospective designers travel to Denmark for a battery of challenges.
- One writer takes on the world's oddest job-interview questions, to prove he's hirable anywhere.
- Audiophiles swear by "burning in" their earphones before using them, although there's no evidence it works.
