October 15, 2013: Morning
By The Morning News
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- The deal to end the shutdown, and how it could still go wrong.
- The shutdown halts NIH's ability to approve new treatment in drug trials for 200 people a week, many of them fatally ill children.
- Since the shutdown began, the White House's vegetable garden has gone to hell—produce is rotting on the vine.
- New cancer treatments find success with drugs that lower cancer cells' defenses against the immune system.
- In 1905, four years before becoming president, Taft lost nearly 60 pounds by low-carbing it.
- Tagger defaces Banksy's art in Queens, calling it "his area"; onlooker believed to be Banksy calls it part of the process.
- If we were one city, San Francisco could spend some of its incredible wealth on the things Oakland needs.
- One quarter of the entire world's starving population is in India alone.
- Moscow restaurant recalls Soviet-era movie, hires sets of twins in a bid to lure patrons.
- Meet Fukushima Industries Corporation's new mascot: Fukuppy.
- Crosswalk signs around the world say a lot about local culture—of hundreds of examples, only a handful depict women.
- Stranded in the woods for 18 days, man survives on wildlife, thankful for Gore-Tex.
- Exports kept rising, reaching $500,000 by 1996. The quinoa phenomenon had begun.
- Vanity Fair credits the Brit Perv directors—i.e., Roeg, Russell—with delivering "A-list genitalia" to film snobs.
- You can help support the #Longreads community by becoming a member.
- Tumblr of the day: Bizarre gifs of Renaissance paintings.
