September 24, 2013: Afternoon
By The Morning News
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- One of the final poems of Kofi Awoonor, who died in the Kenyan mall attack.
- Protecting his mother and sister during the Nairobi attack, a four-year-old shamed a gunman into sparing them.
- Don't blame America's mass shootings on movies and video games—violence as entertainment is the norm in Korea, where guns are illegal.
- Using historical data models, researchers learn war, not agriculture, is responsible for our complex societies.
- Why economist wunderkind Jeffrey Sachs's plan to eliminate African poverty failed.
- On two occasions, air quality investigators evacuated themselves from a Texas family's home due to high fracking pollution levels.
- Disney parks to stop allowing special-needs patrons to skip lines—too many able-bodied visitors are cheating the system.
- What CrossFit doesn't tell you: The regimen is associated with an otherwise-rare form of kidney failure.
- Bush: "I see our president criticized for playing golf. I don't. I think he ought to play golf."
- See also: "Golf Is a Highly Mental Game."
- Iconic photos recreated in Play-Doh.
- A new California law will force internet companies to erase the digital pasts of minors upon request.
- Editors at BuzzFeed, Flavorpill, and College Humor explain what millennials want.
- Ms. Weiss and the store owners realized they opened themselves up to Brooklyn hipster backlash with the classes.
- The sounds of Peter Sellers: with Sofia Loren, singing the Beatles, more.
- Related: In a Dr. Strangelove interview, Peter Sellers does various English accents.
- R. Kelly's grocery list, apparently.
