October 2, 2013: Afternoon
By The Morning News
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- International inspectors head to Syria to begin chemical weapon dismantling.
- In terms of military cooperation and trade investments, China-U.S. relations are improving, though still tense.
- A Q&A on the policy substance behind the shutdown.
- See also: In October 1975 the New York Daily News published a legendary headline, matched in staying power only by yesterday's.
- The Library of Congress is nonessential: "All that stuff is published online, bro."
- To meet customer demand, Amazon will create 70,000 jobs for the holidays—40% more hires than last year.
- Drive-through fast food is its slowest in 15 years—menus have become more complex than many customers can handle.
- Bourdain issues frito pie ingredient correction.
- America's best restrooms are Buc-ee's convenience stores in Texas—one location boasts 33 urinals.
- Erected by Napoleon, Paris's public urinals sealed the city's reputation as the most modern in the world.
- Depictions of dream cities of the future always show trees growing on skyscrapers, but that's never going to happen.
- We're headed toward life in a surveillance state, and while that sounds bad, you're probably going to like it—a lot.
- Because it takes the human brain 80 milliseconds to process information, we are always living in the past.
- There are no significant facts about individual human beings.
- A swarm of jellyfish forces the shut down of a Swedish nuclear reactor on the Baltic Sea.
- Kurt Stallaert's photos of children bodybuilders with fake muscles.
