October 21, 2014
By The Morning News
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- Ebola would be more dangerous if it were less deadly—it kills its host too quickly to be effectively contagious.
- "Nurse Being Treated for Ebola Impressed With Health Workers' New Gear."
- Putin's land grab may be part of his vision of Novorossiya, a new Russia that retakes lost—and profitable—territories.
- Dozens of suspected Nazi war criminals who fled the US continued to collect millions in Social Security.
- Oscar de la Renta, who died yesterday at 82, was the first Latino accepted into Parisian high fashion.
- Bodhi, the Shiba Inu star of Menswear Dog, makes more than $10,000 a month.
- For some homeless youth, relationships with their pets take priority.
- Grosse Point and other wealthy suburbs maintain a thorny relationship with Detroit.
- Sometimes it seems as if every time Occupy has been declared dead in one place, it crops up somewhere else.
- Amazon reaches a truce with Simon & Schuster over prices, but there's still no deal in sight with Hachette.
- The PG-13 rating—Hollywood's largest and most profitable rating category—might not really mean anything.
- YouTube is...like a hoarder's house where the plastic plates from the Labor Day barbecue are piled on top of the good china.
- A day in the life of a Moscow Metro station bench.
- Anxious and depressed people notice more details than their happier, more relaxed peers.
- The tense week leading up to Richard Pryor's SNL hosting gig established an edginess the show needed to survive.
- Plants can tell when they're being eaten, and they don't like it.
