November 19, 2013: Afternoon
- U.S.-Israel ties strained over Iran accord.
- Where the United States does stand out is in the level of inequality after taxes and transfers.
- The eruptions of Indonesia's Mount Sinabung volcano, now active after 400 years of dormancy.
- French newspaper goes image-less in support of photographers, who are facing "unprecedented challenges."
- You don't have to be unwell to see things in other things—you just need to be open to the supernatural.
- Google's self-driving car couldn't have come at a better time for texting-obsessed boozehounds.
- A hungover photo of a busted lip is proclaimed the world's first selfie.
- Most superheroes are fictional. Florida Man is real, sort of.
- See also: In defense of Tallahassee, the biggest target for bi-coastal writers who pick low-hanging fruit.
- Japanese TV "covers almost the entire range of vision...which influences the human grasp of spatial coordinates."
- When a Price Is Right contestant guessed exact prices, the show cried foul while Barker wept.
- When a Roseanne writer became homeless.
- In Europe, where St. Nicholas, his Black Petes—men and women in blackface—follow, as do charges of racism.
- See also: Meet the Krampus, a goat-horned menace that whips Europe's children every December.
- Tennis umpires must learn more than how to keep score or remember who's playing—though it doesn't hurt.
- [Walsh] demonstrates what many believe to be the strongest Boston dialect in the city's mayoral history.