November 5, 2013: Morning
By The Morning News
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- John Kerry is a terrible Secretary of State.
- For many whose coverage was cancelled under Obamacare, it's because those were insurance plans that began as a scam.
- Since 2007 more than 580 deaths—mostly among dogs—have resulted from eating jerky treats, but no one yet knows why.
- Antibiotics once made pigs grow larger; it's no longer the case, but many farmers still continue the practice.
- Welsh farmers anticipate the end of a 15-year beef ban on U.S. exports that began during the mad cow scare.
- See also: True stories from the farmers' market, now a macrocosm of first-world food neuroses.
- If you wander through the streets of Tehran, you might find a Pizza Hat or a Mash Donald's.
- Around the world, mass weddings, which can include hundreds of couples, curb costs and social dangers.
- Groundbreaking genetic research finds the breakdown of the skin barrier is a reason for eczema rather than a result.
- Shakuntala Devi cubed the root of 61,629,875 without a calculator—a list of other "human calculators."
- Downed in 1989, UTA flight 772's fuselage still remains in the Sahara and has its own coordinates on Google Maps.
- Today Houstonians vote whether the Astrodome will remain; this weekend people bought a lot of memorabilia.
- See also: Profiles of people and their treasures from the St. Louis Cardinals' now-demolished stadium.
- Where a football to the groin was once physical comedy gold, today it's all about the throat punch.
- Over time, the word "strategy" has been drained of meaning by ubiquity and overuse.
