October 19, 2011: Morning
- Primer on the long-running French scandal—Bettencourt/L'Oreal—that may be coming to an end.
- Great Recession hitting Friendly's, Fuddruckers, Benningan's hard.
- Empire, Nevada, dead.
- Related: History of Crush, Texas, town that existed for one day's event.
- "Active commuters" use their required travel to and from work to accomplish training.
- Let it be known: Type A parents struggle to raise Type B children.
- Japan says it needs to clear 2,419 square kilometres of radiation-contaminated land—an area larger than greater Tokyo.
- List of legendary creatures from Japan.
- Naturalist pleads for families and governments of victims to not take revenge on "killer" animals.
- Retiring Times restaurant critic recounts favorite and worst memories from his professional dining life.
- Semi-precious video finds chef teaching his son about the sea.
- Fifty ways to address seasickness.
- Hunter Thompson covers a marathon in 1983.
- Julian Barnes wins Booker for The Sense of an Ending.
- New Yorker critic Alex Ross bares one of his worst college essays.