Headlines from November 5, 2012
- Watch: the grim situation in Staten Island. #video
- The overall atmosphere was upbeat rather than depressing, but there was a very strong defiant air.
- Donate from afar: an Amazon wish list for Staten Island Sandy relief supplies.
- Photographer explains how he shot the half-illuminated New York cover.
- Beautiful, long-exposure images from blacked-out lower Manhattan. #photos
- A New York artist’s flood-line project, begun in 2007, started a conversation about rising water that never took hold.
- Also devastated during Sandy: Chelsea galleries, many of which may be gone for good. #art
- It’s like the Wild West. A borderline lawless situation. Horrific accounts of the post-Sandy Rockaways.
- U.S. wildlife populations are surging into human-inhabited areas.
- Former Outside editor of reflects on his role in building the Lance Armstrong legend.
- U.S. suicides increased sharply in the first years of the recession.
- Interactive: 512 ways to win the White House. #chart
- Explained: the most likely paths for Obama or Romney to win the presidency. #chart
- We’ve got a right-wing government up here too, eh. Canadians would welcome U.S. election sore losers.
- Candidates’ flaws highlighted in editorials endorsing them.
- Obama and Romney’s most commonly uttered phrases and promises from the campaign trail.
- When the Redskins win their last game before a presidential election, so does the incumbent party—yesterday, they lost.
- Also up for grabs on Tuesday: right to life, right to death, right to marijuana.
- What would happen if we scrapped Congress. #video
- Do hormones drive women’s votes? Postcards from the suffragist era.
- Todd Oldham critiques ballot designs. #video
- Whether Romney wins or not, the GOP faces an internal civil war over demographics and radicals.
- Latest Christoph Niemann column explains the electoral college in M&Ms.
- If 16-year-olds want to vote, they should move to Argentina, or possibly Indonesia.
- Want to use your need for sexual connection to help others? Consider work as a sex surrogate.
- Radio host becomes 18th journalist killed this year in Somalia, world’s most dangerous place for reporters, along with Syria.
- Italian newspaper La Repubblica angered by Romney comparing Italy to Spain and Greece.
- Survey concludes that of the almost 200 countries in the world only 22 have never been invaded by Britain.
- South African photojournalist Pieter Hugo documents the Amtrak corridor from New York to DC.
- Map shows spatial distribution of executions in Stalin’s Moscow. via
- When a natural disaster strikes, try not to be in Russia, where the government has contempt for victims.
- In New York, 40,000 people left homeless after the devastation of last week’s storm.
- Tri-state area keeps wary eye on nor’easter set to pummel shores on Wednesday.
- Finally: “A pair of ski goggles that let you read your emails while on the slopes.”
- I always want to take a blue pencil to Emma Bovary’s overextended death throes. Ian McEwan blogs about the novella’s blessed brevity.
- Ode to Patrick Leigh Fermor, bold traveler, walker, and acquirer of crabs.
- Children arrive in the world with predetermined abilities, proclivities, and temperaments that parents “can rarely reverse.”
- Devotees of Star Wars build custom Stormtrooper costume for bullied girl. via
- Beware of blue tops and prancing unicorns, or, how to spot a batch of fake Sriracha sauce.