* Retired NFL players allege they were illegally administered dangerous narcotics to keep them playing through the pain. * Most of the world's newborn deaths...enter and leave the world without a piece of paper to record their existence. * How developmental disorganization—where organs and tissues evolve at different rates—
The instinct to applaud boot-strapping and the comeback kid is as American as apple pie. So why does schadenfreude make us feel so good?
Returning to America after five years in the Middle East calls for a no-sleep jaunt back to Beirut for drinking, partying, and tying up loose ends.
* Thailand’s Army declares martial law, but hasn't picked sides between the pro- and anti-government protesters. * Camille Lepage, inspiring 26-year-old French photojournalist, killed while covering the Central African Republic. * Everyone should have a museum dedicated to the worst day of their life and be forced
A redacted version of Mao Tse-tung’s “Little Red Book,” illustrated with photographs of contemporary China, becomes a story for modern times.
* Severe flooding in the Balkans has displaced at least 24,300 people and dislodged some of the 100,000 landmines in the region. * Eighty years after two scientists first theorized how light turns into matter, three physicists devise an experiment to prove it. * California has released thousands of Pakistani wasps
* The BJP, India's Hindu-nationalist party, looks to sweep the elections, making Narendra Modi the likely Prime Minister. * GOP gubernatorial primary debate in Idaho hijacked by unlikely candidates, including a biker with "a direct line to God." * After weeks of solitary confinement and police interrogations in
Sinclair Lewis despised his hometown in Minnesota. It disliked him, too, especially after being lampooned in a bestselling novel that mocked the citizens for their small-town ways. These days, though, he’s all they’ve got.
* The NSA reform bill only limits the surface of the agency's spying. * EU ruling gives people the right to ask Google to remove information about them. * Among those asking Google to remove links: a disgraced ex-politician, a convicted pedophile, a doctor with negative patient feedback. * FCC meets
* Turkish mining disaster kills more than 200, with 200-plus others thought to be still underground. * US planes start flying missions to find the more than 200 Nigerian teenage girls abducted by Boko Haram almost a month ago. * Eight days ago, Boko Haram destroyed the small Nigerian town of Gamburo,
