* More areas where women in the U.S. earn more than men: nearly all part-time jobs. * Radiolab finds a disturbing possibility for why Kenyans dominate long-distance running: genital mutilation. * Google employees tell all. * Every night in Memphis, around 150 cargo jets land and take off again, transporting the
* John Kerry is a terrible Secretary of State. * For many whose coverage was cancelled under Obamacare, it's because those were insurance plans that began as a scam. * Since 2007 more than 580 deaths—mostly among dogs—have resulted from eating jerky treats, but no one yet knows why.
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* Very quickly, the matter of disbursing these funds became something else, a proxy fight over how to evaluate grief. * America shouldn't stop spying, even on allies, but it must do a better job of not getting caught. * "The 24 Hours Barack Obama Almost Threw His Reelection Away&
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* Germany's move to let intersex babies' gender remain unregistered is a first in Europe—parents aren't forced into deciding. * Kenya's president launches a website for citizens to report government corruption and bribery directly to him. * The world's 18 strangest airports. * U.
* Appeals court reinstates most of Texas's abortion restrictions, which will remain in effect until January. * Unfortunately not related: A sinister history of Halloween pranks, from riots to bigotry. * Whatever Obamaism really is, it has run its course. * Profile of John Ramsey, one of the Libertarian kids who are
* Syria wants to turn its chemical weapons factories into civilian chemical facilities, alarming inspectors. * Columnist detained in Saudi Arabia for writing about women drivers. * Greenwald on leaving The Guardian: "Reporting the NSA story has never been easy." * The Pacific Ocean has warmed 15 times faster in the last
* 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
* Google and Yahoo outraged yesterday at reports the NSA can collect information "at will" from hundreds of millions of user accounts. * Dick Cheney re-emerges in order to support the Tea Party and his daughter's campaign for Senate. * Boston wins the World Series at home for
