October 30, 2013: Afternoon
By The Morning News
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- The portions of the Texas abortion law that remain still make it burdensome for women to get abortions.
- To win a seat in Congress, it helps to have a family member who's been in Congress.
- Woes continue for healthcare.gov, with news that hacking into people's accounts is "frighteningly simple."
- HPV vaccines only target strains prevalent in Caucasian women, underscoring the need for greater clinical trial diversity.
- Dancer pleads not guilty to acid attack on the Bolshoi's artistic director.
- See also: The Bolshoi is held hostage by criminal intent, excessive profits, public disinterest, and limitless ambition.
- Child sexual abuse is equally, if not more, prevalent in India's higher income households than its rural poor.
- Providing addicts legal, sterile locales to inject, Copenhagen's "drug rooms" show signs of success.
- The first World Series military flyover was in 1918, during World War I, when carrier pigeons transported game updates.
- Saltwater-corroded wiring that caused last month's massive Jersey Shore fire was a result of Hurricane Sandy.
- See also: In unlovely East New York, the road starts heading downhill and I hear my first seagull and see my first ruined boat.
- Underwater photographer Todd Bretl captures magnificent closeups of sharks and other critters.
- Primates' brains are specially wired to fear reptiles—our good vision might be an evolutionary response to snakes.
- James Turrell: "I have been asked twice to be the godparent of a child that was conceived in the PS1 piece."
- Dutch art collective creates book that encodes modern European culture into binary patterns.
- Mexican food authority Diana Kennedy is 91.
- In the U.S., the taco is outpacing the burger—revenue at Mexican-style restaurants grew by 9.3% last year.
