October 31, 2013: Afternoon
By The Morning News
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- Mother explains why you shouldn't spy on your children, despite the myriad ways technology now allows you to track them.
- Petraeus: How we won the surge in Iraq.
- Potential HIV treatment completely wipes out virus from lab monkeys; effects may not apply to humans.
- Architectural profile of the dean of hospital design, Derek Parker.
- India's "Cancer Express" train carries sufferers believed to be sick from toxic waters.
- Revolutionary jewelry ad breaks two of India's strongest social stigmas for women: remarriage and dark skin tone.
- The idea that advertising is somehow exempt from social responsibility is a self-perpetuating cop-out.
- See also: "Racists Very Upset Over Interracial Family in Cute Cheerios Commercial."
- In the 1930s, Germany had Führer Adolf Hitler, and America had Bundesführer Fritz Kuhn, who held a Nuremberg-style rally in Madison Square Garden.
- Alabama agrees to gut its controversial immigration law that used racial profiling.
- Candy corn polarizes.
- Top reviewers on Amazon receive items free to assess; even a product with negative reviews sells better than a product with no reviews at all.
- Round-up of the best titles from horror cinema that you've likely never seen.
- Ninety-two migrants die of thirst, mostly women and children, trying to cross Niger's desert north.
- In America, “juice cleansing” has reached the level of a mantra, where people say, "juice changed everything for me."
- TMN's Alexander Chee takes a five-day cleanse at the behest of his brother and reports back on visions of apocalypse.
- Remembering Jimmy Connors in 1991: What mattered was winning; the rest was bullshit and whining.
- I saw the Velvet Underground play 350 times, sometimes hiding in air ducts so I could watch them during rehearsals.
