September 9, 2013: Afternoon
By The Morning News
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- Haunting photos from Syrian refugee city in Jordan comprised entirely of tents that 144,000 now call home.
- Spiegel reports the NSA can tap into personal data on nearly every smartphone.
- How Pat Robertson used a charity mission in war-torn Rwanda as a front to further his diamond mine interests.
- Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic face off in today's U.S. Open men's final—no two men have played each other more in the Open Era.
- U.S. Open women's champ Serena Williams explains how she has defeated every major men's player of the past 20 years.
- Mikhail Youzhny's tennis Ph.d. translated; unfortunately, his studies on how to beat the top players hasn't necessarily been useful.
- Why do tennis players say "come on!" so much?
- Tennis is a lonely, nerve-jangling game at any age, but it was always harder to watch the teenagers.
- Robotics on the field and on the players could change the way soccer is coached—and refereed.
- A 4,000-kilo "laddu"—spherical Indian dessert—is carried by crane to the hand of the tallest Ganesh idol in South India.
- Bloomberg: "The sad thing, which nobody's willing to talk about, is that most of our crime is in two neighborhoods."
- From the 19th century, photos that show when New Yorkers lived knee-deep in garbage.
- Built in 1978 to withstand a nuclear blast, a three-bedroom home underneath Las Vegas is a home décor time capsule.
- Ahead of Echo Park developers, man recovers the time capsule he buried 37 years ago.
- Marine pollution has led to a dramatic and detrimental rise in jellyfish; they are "taking over" the oceans.
