November 20, 2013: Afternoon
By The Morning News
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- If Walmart wanted workers to have a living wage, it could end stock buybacks that don't improve the bottom line.
- Oil companies try to stay hush on spills—it almost worked in Mayflower, Ark., until people started getting sick.
- Scientists unearth ancient seawater, which they discover has twice the salt content of today's.
- John Edwards returns to personal injury law, but his onetime skill at wooing juries may now be gone.
- Endlessly watchable, Rob Ford is a politician for the gif age.
- From JFK onward, 50 years of conspiracy theory.
- See also: An illustrated guide to every person, plot, and nefarious group linked to the JFK assassination.
- Sex in the Senate.
- Because brevity, a short history of the internet's latest favorite vernacular.
- Manipulated photos of dead rock stars—e.g., Kurt Cobain, Karen Carpenter—to see how they'd look today.
- Lou Reed and John Cale had a day job playing Batman and Robin at birthday parties.
- Recent hazing incidents—and deaths—show frats and their universities haven't enforced serious change.
- Florida Fish & Wildlife sting operation nabs off-season hunter with a robotic decoy deer.
- It's impossible to craft an op-ed about the Monty Python reunion that isn't crammed full of classic lines.
- Over the next 10 years, we walked at least three miles a day...a minimum of 11,000 miles.
- A playlist by Martin Aston to accompany his new book, a history of legendary music label 4AD.
