September 26, 2013: Afternoon
By The Morning News
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- Yesterday in diplomacy: Iran's new president acknowledged the Holocaust did occur.
- Small but growing business emerges for $120,000 “designer” American babies provided by surrogates to China’s elite.
- Banner Poison Control Center in Arizona reports two cases of flesh-rotting drug’s use, believed to be the first in the U.S.
- Study of Twitter posts asserts that elite Hunter College High School is Manhattan's most negative spot.
- Experiment where a wallet is left on the ground finds Helsinki and Mumbai to be the "most honest" cities, Lisbon and Zurich the least.
- Perhaps a little late, E.L. James launches Fifty Shades of Grey wine.
- For many people, it is impossible to enjoy the Important Male Novelists of the mid to late 20th-century because they're such sexist dillweeds.
- During her five-month kayak journey from Japan to Alaska, Sarah Outen's boat capsized five times.
- We were absolutely the Illuminati of our community when it came to the electric boogaloo.
- History of the smile through the ages of portraiture, "from Da Vinci’s Mona Lisa to Alexander Gardner’s photographs of Abraham Lincoln."
- On the Road illustrated in noir by Paul Rodgers, one drawing for every page of text.
- Writing advice that's not complete crap: Be polite, be relentless, be Columbo.
- If rappers were advertising copywriters.
- Related: Release dates for the hottest incarcerated rappers, from Lauryn Hill to Fat Joe.
- Amount of money the typical American household now pays in rent is at an all-time high: $735.
- For aviation geeks: Everything that went wrong with the Joint Strike Fighter, the most expensive weapons system ever developed.
