October 30, 2015
By The Morning News
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- One-child policy raised the cost of raising a kid, making it too expensive for most families to have more than one.
- To fight climate change, billionaires should buy up coal and never mine it.
- "Elon Musk can keep on making $100,000 cars, but he should make some Teslas to give to poor families—for free."
- It's good if Jeb's campaign implodes. Finally, the Bush family machine can't turn dollars into votes.
- "Harry Reid says he liked that John Boehner told him to go fuck himself."
- John Boehner to Paul Ryan: "I was once young and beautiful too."
- One crime lab chemist mishandled 34,000 drug tests over years of malplractice in Massachusetts.
- Heart disease is seen—fatally, for many women—as a men’s disease.
- Twenty-seven years after Lockerbie, a man looks back on the items he inherited as a boy from his brother, a victim.
- "I lost any sense of journalistic detachment when Patti Stevens mentioned me in her suicide note."
- When a reporter hears a bizarre account, facts come first. Then the story becomes a shocking conspiracy.
- In 1986, new subscriptions to Sports Illustrated were in freefall—then came the football phone.
- "Other," that cesspool of weird unsolicited Facebook messages, to be migrated to Messenger.
- Romanian pop stars and politicians are using an obscure law to reduce their jail time by writing books.
- Letting kids try a math problem before telling them the answer leads to better learning.
- A Pringle tastes better when the crunch is amplified, opening the door to study how any one sense interacts with another.
- Graveyard photos for the Halloween spirit.
