September 30, 2014
By The Morning News
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- US bankruptcy judge has allowed Detroit to continue shutting off water for some of its residents.
- Although the Sixth Amendment guarantees "the right to a speedy and public trial," in the Bronx the concept of speedy justice barely exists.
- Seventy-five percent of all worldwide migrant deaths in the past year occurred in the Mediterranean Sea.
- After two weeks of playing typewriter sounds in the newsroom to create excitement, the Times of London ends its experiment.
- Coffee, now a source of common cultural identity, was once considered brutal enough to lay waste to "beautiful stomach linings as a wagon master abuses ponies."
- The supermarket apple you're about to eat was picked a year ago, sprayed with chemicals, and deposited into cold storage.
- Cyranoids—people whose speech is controlled by someone else—can reveal whether appearance or content matters more in human interaction.
- Social network Ello—the ad-free Facebook alternative—receives up to 31,000 requests to join per hour.
- He had seen that his housekeeper was a person. And he couldn't believe it.
- Cameron's raw deal: British youth must choose between university debt or woeful wages.
- Morrissey gets a job.
- Billboard crunches the numbers, says Amazon, not Urban Outfitters, is the top vinyl seller.
- At the world premiere of The Neighbors, Tommy Wiseau's followup to cult favorite The Room.
- Over the past 40 years, Earth lost half its wildlife.
- Unlike its parks, New York City's vacant lots have their own ecologies, offering a glimpse of natural-like wildness.
