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Headlines from October 29, 2012
- What you could buy with the money the candidates have raised so far.
- There was essentially no day or night. The demands of a presidential campaigns require amazing stamina.
- New York subway stations are empty, shut down in preparation for Hurricane Sandy. #photos
- Movies to watch on Netflix when you’re on lockdown for Sandy.
- Though Armstrong may be stripped of his titles and official achievements, his fortune likely will remain intact.
- El Paso lawyer hopes to offer asylum to Mexican “narco refugees.”
- How Fleming buried Bond: In The Spy Who Loved Me, 007 doesn’t appear until later in the book, in a supporting role.
- Her first outing was to Cuba in 1961, then gripped by the missile crisis which she alone could defuse. Writer gives Moneypenny her due.
- Related: The actors who tried—and failed—to play James Bond. #tmn
- Music for Sleeping Children: A new music project by Charlie White.
- Previously on TMN: “Teen and Transgender Comparative Study.” #galleries
- Beautiful photos of the microscopic world.
- Britain’s Labour leader proposes rewriting NHS constitution to end discrimination against the mentally ill.
- “Sentimental prospector can’t bear to part baby-head-shaped nugget” and other tragedies. via
- A gallery of artists hand-painting signs. #art
- Oh look, mostly chocolate, just not as good. The Candy Hierarchy.
- Connecticut governor says Sandy is “the largest threat to human life our state has experienced in anyone’s lifetime.”
- We may, in many respects, be locked down where we are. Sandy has killed the presidential campaigns.
- Times building points high-quality webcam at Sandy to update every minute.
- Lindsay Lohan urges East Coasters to quit freaking out about a storm. via
- Profile of New York’s (only? best?) homeless real-estate broker.
- Tribute to the West Village’s finest magazine stand, which we hope will not be touched by flooding.
- Time-lapse video of airplanes queuing up to land at London Heathrow. via #video
- In skiing, getting “chicked” is to be beaten by a woman—something men fear if Vonn wins appeal to race them.
- San Francisco Giants win their second World Series in three years.
- Censors try to quash story that documents $2.7 billion in assets held by relatives of Wen Jiabao, the Chinese prime minister.
- Explanation of China’s diaosi phenomenon, or, why China’s youth call themselves “dick shred.”
- To cross Paris underground, without taking the Metro, takes approximately 40 hours.
- Crime writing, from Christie to Nesbø, has an enviable record of capturing the history of our times. Grand tour of European detective fiction.
- See also: History of modern Europe told through literary detectives #audio
- Beautiful map of wind in America.