* New York City has an Ebola patient; officials tracing every contact he made, including while bowling in Williamsburg. * Health workers in Texas use Tabasco during training for its tingling properties, to say if they've been contaminated. * Confessions of an Ebola thrillist. * Some US hospitals considering whether to withhold
The Bard’s most famous sonnet very nearly wasn’t a Shakespearean sonnet. Rejected pairings of content and form, from rondelet to an acrostic hiding his name.
* Shooter in Ottawa kills a soldier in what the PM calls a "terrorist" act—the suspect was recently designated a "high-risk traveler." * Canada's CBC News covered the shootings in a way US news no longer can: with respect and care for the facts.
NFL star Randy Moss is now a high school coach. A Vikings fan explains how watching one childhood hero move on with his life helps him say goodbye to another.
* ISIS claims to have received a US weapons drop meant for Kurdish fighters. * Reports indicate ISIS struggles to meet basic needs of residents, who are kept in line by fear of reprisals. * Political scientists fail to understand why countries sign human rights treaties they have no intention of following. * After
Updates to news stories that have slipped off the front page. This week: male birth control, Sarah Palin, hydraulic fracking, the Beatles, and more.
* 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
* Officials declare dozens of people who had contact with Thomas Eric Duncan are now no longer at risk of Ebola. * High school dropouts with wealthy backgrounds tend to earn as much as college grads with poorer backgrounds. * Many, if not most, individual American households possess next to nothing. * PBS debuts
An artist’s personal issues become manifest through dozens of identically dressed little men.
* Obama possibly to name a "czar" to manage the government’s response to Ebola, which has so far infected three people in the US. * Dallas worker who handled the Ebola patient's lab samples is on a Caribbean cruise—now quarantined and not showing any signs. * Infectious
