October 15, 2014
By The Morning News
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- World Health Organization warns that West Africa could see 10,000 Ebola cases per week by the end of the year.
- Second health care worker in Texas has Ebola; nurses accuse hospital of sloppy protocols.
- Spain has the world's highest concentration of elevators, thanks to the Spanish Civil War and Franco's rule.
- Drone interrupts a Serbia-Albania football match and prompts a brawl between the players, officials, and some of the 20,000 fans.
- In a sovereign black America, median wealth would be below Brazil, above India.
- Vermont's recent gubernatorial debate, full of conspiracy theories and raving mountain men, was very special.
- I had come to Lubec in Maine with a bizarre question: what was 9/11 like for whales?
- Bono apologizes for dropping U2’s latest album directly into people's phones.
- Snowden's documentarian explains what it's like to be his confidant.
- George Packer: What gives the Snowden movie gravity is the filmmaker herself.
- Lefty alt-weekly San Francisco Bay Guardian gets shut down; former editor-in-chief for 30 years says goodbye.
- Man joins the Chicago Marathon for a bit to get away from the police.
- In case you missed it: British district council honors local resident David Sedaris with a garbage truck in his name, without realizing he's that David Sedaris.
- The reality of reality television is worker exploitation: Hollywood's a union town, but not in the case of unscripted TV.
- Related: The NFL needs 10,000 volunteers to help with the Super Bowl.
- US soldiers go untreated for illnesses gained while hunting down chemical weapons in Iraq.
- Writer explains what it's like to go from blogger to star to addict to fully depressed meltdown who needs to escape New York.
- Latest novel by TMN's Anthony Doerr named as one of five finalists for this year's National Book Awards.
- Doerr: "Believing that we can or do keep insects out of our lives is ridiculous."
- The Great Gatsby, space edition.
