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Editors letter
At 16, I gave in to temptation. Id been a vegetarian for eight
years and was adamant Id never rejoin the carnivores. After all,
Id held firm in the face of teasing from school friends, who enjoyed waving ham sandwiches under my nose, and nagging by
relatives, who worried that the lack of farm animals in my diet
would make me anemic. What could possibly cause this hardened
veggie to cave? Sitting in a greasy spoon one day after school,
the answer came wafting to me: bacon. The savory, smoky, salty,
mouthwatering smell of pig sizzling on the restaurants grill hit
my olfactory receptors, and before I knew it, Id abandoned my
animal rights shtick and ordered a bacon sandwich. Ive never regretted my decision to start eating meat again. Or at least not
until this week, when the World Health Organization added
bacon, hot dogs, and other tasty cured meats to its exhaustive list
of group 1 carcinogensa category home to cancer causers like
asbestos, tobacco, and plutonium. (See Talking Points.)
I shouldnt have been surprised by the report, because scientists have already established that just about everything else that
brings joy to our lives is also potentially fatal. Take a walk in the
sun and your risk of cancer goes up; drink a cold refreshing soda
and your risk of cancer goes up; knock back a few beers with
friends at the weekend and, yes, your risk of cancer goes up. The
fact that all the things that make a long life worth living can,
even when enjoyed in moderation, reduce your chances of living
a long life neednt be depressing. We should take some comfort
in knowing that whatever we eat, drink, or do, were doomed.
Its out of our hands. So go ahead and order that side of bacon
with brunch. And try not to freak out when the WHO reveals
the cancer risks of its next subject of study: coffee.
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Boehner hands Ryan a
budget deal; school cops
in the spotlight
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Did the GOPs Benghazi
hearing backre in
Hillary Clintons favor?
9 The U.S. at a glance
Hastert pleads guilty;
a bear cull in Florida;
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Tony Blair says sorry,
sort of; the U.S. stands up
to China at sea
12 People
Selena Gomezs ght with
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forgets a face
14 Brieing
Many Americans carry
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But do good guys with
guns actually stop bad
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impending death spiral
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Vatican; Ryans family
time hypocrisy; will
bacon give you cancer?
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The former secretary of state testifies on the Benghazi attacks.
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The main stories...
A departing Boehner hands Ryan a budget deal

What happened
It wasnt all bad

QRight after getting crowned
homecoming queen, Jodie Farnetti,

17, celebrated by kicking an extra
point. The Alabama teens father
had coached her high schools
football team since before she was
born, and as a kid Jodie often practiced kicking with her dad. The two
had a running joke that someday
she might kick at one of his games.
Since the homecoming game was
Coach Farnettis very last before
retirement, his players agreed to let
Jodie kick an extra point in the final
quarter. It was just so special to
me, said the proud coach.
QEstella the guinea pig finally has something to squeal

about. After being abandoned by her previous owner, the
rodent was recently found by the side of the road in California
with a broken back. Her hind legs were paralyzed, so the staff
at the Harvest Home Animal Sanctuary organized a fundraiser
to cover the cost of a customized miniature wheelchair. The
once crippled creature
can now get her daily
exercise alongside her
guinea pig boyfriend,
Pip. Shes quite a little
titan in her wheelchair,
said Harvest Home
manager Christine
Morrissey. She can
forget about her past
trauma. She is our treasured comeback kid.
Estella and her new wheels
QWhen Texas police officer Justin

Gower pulled over a man for a
broken light and saw that his
three young daughters werent in
booster seats, he could have written up a ticket. Instead, Gower
called in Officer Cale Hawkins,
who had previously told him
about the familys struggles
how they were homeless and
living in a hotel. Instead of issuing fines, the two policemen,
both fathers themselves, decided
to drive to Walmart and spend
$145 of their own cash on three
pink car seats for the girls. It was
nothing short of a miracle, said
the grateful father.
On the cover: Rep. Paul Ryan.
Illustration by Howard McWilliam.
Cover photos from AP, Alamy, Corbis
AP, Getty, screenshot: Harvest Home
Its far from perfect, but this compromise

deal is a small victory for governability
John Boehner used his nal days as House
and bipartisanship, said The Washingspeaker this week to hammer out a biparton Post. It eliminates the threat of a
tisan budget deal that will raise the federal
default until March 2017 and takes the
debt ceiling, smoothing the political terrain
federal government out of the budgetary
for his successor, Wisconsin Rep. Paul
straitjacket of sequestration. Think of
Ryan. If passed by the House and Senit as a truce, one that enables the parties
ate, the budget agreementnegotiated by
to campaign in 2016 unburdened by fear
Boehner, the White House, and congressioof a shutdown or scal catastrophe.
nal leaders from both partieswould avert
The biggest beneciary is Paul Ryan, said
a potentially devastating default on the
The Kansas City Star. Assuming the bill
governments debt, and diminish the risk of
passes through Congress, the new speaker
a government shutdown. Under the deal,
will enjoy a period of relative tranquility
which was headed for a House vote as The
Boehner passes the baton to Ryan.
that Boehner himself rarely experienced.
Week went to press, government spending will rise by $80 billion over two years. But that spending will
What the columnists said
be offset by cuts to Medicare and Social Security disability benets,
savings from an array of other government programs, and the sale of Ryans ascension will set off celebrations in much of the GOP,
oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve. Boehner acknowledged the said Chris Cillizza in WashingtonPost.com. But the Freedom
deal wasnt perfect by any means, but he insisted there wasnt time Caucus wont abandon its hard-right convictions just because
they think the new speaker is a good guy. Ultimately, Ryan will
before the debt-ceiling deadline on Nov. 3 to negotiate better terms.
face the same choice as Boehner: Risk his job by working with the
Democrats, or keep it by toeing the Freedom Caucus line.
Ryan blasted Boehner for the secretive talks that produced the
deal, saying, The process stinks. But the former House Ways
Theres another way to overcome these truculent revolutionaries,
and Means Chairman later said hed vote for the agreement in
order to wipe the slate clean. Ryans nomination as speaker was said Doyle McManus in the Los Angeles Times. Divide and conapproved by Republican lawmakers on Wednesday, ahead of a full quer. The Freedom Caucus is only powerful because it has just
enough votes to deprive the speaker of a working majority. But
House vote on Thursday. The Freedom Caucus, the 40 or so GOP
there are already signs the groups unity is frayingat least two
hard-liners who pushed Boehner to resign and who essentially
members recently departed the caucus, denouncing its hardball
blocked House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy from becoming
tactics. If Ryan can persuade just some of the hard-liners to trust
speaker, gave their support to Ryan after he backed off a demand
that would have made it harder for them to oust him. Its time for him, he can defuse this constantly ticking time bomb.
us to turn the page on the last few years, Ryan said, and get to
If anyone can do that, Ryan can, said Ross Kaminsky in The
work on a bold agenda that we can take to the American people.
AmericanSpectator.com. His leadership style is collaborative, not
autocratic; when drafting scal legislation, he routinely gathers
What the editorials said
two or three dozen congressmen in a room to explain the bill,
Boehner made it clear he wanted to clean the barn for his suctake input from them, and modify details accordingly. Crucially,
cessor, said NationalReview.com, but this eleventh-hour budget
he can also articulate conservative principles without sounding
deal is a pigsty-worthy mess. The savings that are meant to offset
like a right-wing nut. The biggest advantage in Ryans favor is
the spending increases will only materialize years down the line
that Republicans see him as a conservative true believer, said
meaning they could easily be reversed. And acceding to President
Obamas demands to break the so-called sequestration budget caps Reihan Salam in Slate.comsomething they never saw in Boehner.
Whether it will be enough to keep the fractious House Republican
will merely create further precedent for Congress to renege on its
Conference together is another story.
spending commitments.
... and how they were covered
NEWS 7
School cops in spotlight after violent arrest

What happened
codes. As a result, our public schools

have gradually become mini-camps,
The FBI and Justice Department
reminiscent of prisons, said Charles F.
launched separate investigations into
Coleman Jr. in TheRoot.com. Students
the violent arrest of a black female high
are made to walk silently in line through
school student in South Carolina this
the hallways, and instructed on when
week, after viral footage showing the
and to whom they may speak. Sure,
16-year-old girl being slammed to the
these measures may seem relatively
ground by a white police ofcer sparked
benign, but add in the consistent preswidespread outrage. School Resource
Officer Fields takes down the 16-year-old student.
ence of uniformed (and, in some cases,
Ofcer Ben Fields, who has since been
armed) guards, and the picture becomes a lot more frightening.
red, had been called to Spring Valley High School in Columbia
after the sophomore was caught using her cellphone in class. When
she repeatedly refused to leave the classroom, Fields ipped the girls Am I missing something? said David French in NationalReview
chair and slammed her onto the ground, before dragging her across .com. Ive watched this video several times, and I keep coming to
the same conclusion: This is what happens when a person resists
the oor and handcufng her. Richland County Sheriff Leon Lott
a lawful order from a police ofcer to move. The student could
said the student had started the whole thing, but that Fields use
have gotten up when the teacher demanded she leave, or when the
of force was a violation of the departments policy. Deputy Ben
Fields did wrong, Lott said. Were taking responsibility for that. schools administrator made the same demand. Instead she tried to
commandeer the classroom indenitelygiving Fields no option

The incident raised questions about the role of the nations 15,000 but to use physical force to remove her.
school resource ofcers. Stephen Gilchrist, a founding member of

This isnt about one incident, said Jamelle Bouie in Slate.com. Its
the school districts Black Parents Association, claimed the ofcers
disproportionately targeted black students. We dont want this to about how incredibly common it is for black students to bear
the brunt of their schools punitive policies. From 1972 to 2010,
be about just this ofcer, said Gilchrist.
the suspension rate for black students more than doubled, to
24.3 percent, while the rate for whites crept up from 6 percent to
This is what happens when you put cops in schools, said German 7.1 percent. Black students are also much more likely to be suspended for a minor rst-time offense like cellphone use. Heres the
Lopez in Vox.com. During the crime wave of the 1970s and 1980s,
truth: What happened at Spring Valley High wasnt an exception
teachers began regularly outsourcing discipline to the police,
or a scandal. Its how things work for black students.
while school districts developed their own harsh new disciplinary
Obama ramps up ground operations against ISIS

What happened
The Obama administration this week revealed plans to intensify the
U.S. military campaign against the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria,
action that Defense Secretary Ash Carter said will involve American troops in direct action on the ground. The move is a major
shift for President Obama, who has repeatedly vowed to avoid
boots on the ground operations inside Syria. Testifying before
the Senate Armed Services Committee, Carter said the plan would
focus on three Rs. The rst two, Raqqa and Ramadi, are cities in
Syria and Iraq, respectively, from which the U.S. is eager to remove
ISIS. Ofcials told The Washington Post that Obama is considering
deploying U.S. advisers to support vetted Syrian rebels and Iraqi
government forces, who will do the bulk of the ghting. The third
R, said Carter, will be raids to capture and kill ISIS leaders.
The risks of such operations became clear last week when Army
Master Sgt. Joshua L. Wheeler, 39, a member of the elite Delta
Force, was shot dead in a raid on an ISIS prison in northern Iraq.
Acting on a tip that hostages were about to be executed, U.S. and
Kurdish commandos descended on the compound in the early
morning hours and rescued some 70 Iraqi captives. A reght
erupted during the raid, and Wheeler did what Americans do in
that situation, Carter said. He ran to the sound of the guns.
It was the rst U.S. combat fatality in Iraq since 2011.
The United States is being sucked into a new Middle East

war, said The New York Times in an editorial. Each incremental increase will embolden hawkish lawmakers to demand
more action. Commanders, meanwhile, will want to build on
battleeld successes when things go their way, and they will
be driven to retaliate when they dont. So long as the Obama
administration and Congress refuse to come together and set
clear limits on this conict, escalation is inevitable.
Those who fear Vietnam-style mission creep should lie down
and stay calm until the feeling passes, said Aaron David Miller
in CNN.com. These new steps are simply part of Obamas
Goldilocks strategy of nding a balance between a full-scale
military commitment and sitting on the sidelines like a potted
plant. Well try to kill the most dangerous jihadis before they
kill us at home, limit ISIS gains, and push for a deal with Russia to ease out Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad and improve our
prospects in yet another unwinnable American war.
AP
Sadly, Wheeler gave his life in an unserious war, said Max
Boot in CommentaryMagazine.com. His special ops unit was

part of a brutally effective man-hunting machine that President George W. Bush unleashed with success against al Qaida
in Iraq. But President Obama deploys special ops only sparingly, content to contain ISIS and nibble around the edges.
These elite soldiers see enough action to incur casualties, but
make little strategic impact, risking their lives for a risk-averse
commander-in-chief who is not serious about winning.
8 NEWS
Controversy of the week
Benghazi hearings: A victory for Hillary Clinton?

Benghazi attacks occurred in the heat of an election camIf Hillary Clinton gets elected president in 2016, she
paign in which President Obama wanted voters to believe
should send thank-you notes to the House Select
al Qaida was, thanks to him, all but defeated. Clintons
Committee on Benghazi, said Chris Cillizza in
apparent willingness to bend the truth to support that
WashingtonPost.com. The former secretary of state
narrative raises serious questions about her judgment
last week made her second appearance before the
as a potential commander in chief.
Republican-led panel, and her first since Rep. Kevin
McCarthy (R-Calif.) let slip that the real goal of the
The GOPs bombshell is a dud, said David
investigation was not to investigate the 2012 killRothkopf in ForeignPolicy.com. As Clinton
ing of four Americans in Benghazi, Libya, but
patiently explained to her angry and aggresto drag down Clintons poll numbers ahead of
sive GOP interrogators, in the hours and
next years election. If that was the plan, which
Still standing after an 11-hour grilling
days after the Benghazi attack there was
committee chairman Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.)
a swirl of conflicting information about the perpetrators. The
denies, it backfired spectacularly. Eleven hours of theatrical badsometimes contrasting statements coming from the administration
gering by Republicans succeeded only in making the GOP look
simply reflected the best intelligence at any given moment. Indeed,
like petty, paranoid partisans, while Clinton came across as in
for every question, Clinton had a (mostly) patient, substantive
control, poised, and smart. This may explain why the hour after
answer, proving that she could not be more thoroughly prepared
the committee closed for the day was the most lucrative 60 minutes of fundraising in Clintons campaign. Hillary is never more to once again hold high office.
alluring than when a bunch of pasty-faced, nasty-tongued white
men bully her, said Maureen Dowd in The New York Times. The Clinton may have avoided calamity at the hearing, said Peter Roff
in USNews.com, but she didnt get off scot-free either. She still
cool composure she showed last week may have put her in the
has no good answer as to why security was so light at the U.S.
HOV lane of a superhighway to the presidency.
compound in Benghazi, or why requests for more security were
denied, and the FBI is still investigating whether Clintons private
Liberal pundits are fawning over Clintons poise and grace,
email server compromised national security. The questions will
said Jonah Goldberg in NationalReview.com, rather than reportnever end, said Andrew OHehir in Salon.com, because Benghazi,
ing the hearings bombshell revelation. Two hours in, Rep. Jim
Jordan (R-Ohio) confronted Clinton with an email sent soon after to many Republicans, is no longer about the deaths of four
Americans. To them the very word has become an ideological
the Benghazi assault, in which the then secretary of state told her
touchstone, representing every paranoid, right-wing fantasy about
daughter, Chelsea, that the attack was executed by an al Qaida
like group. But in public statements made around the same time, how Muslims, liberals, secularists, the media, and the rest are conspiring to destroy the soul of America. Last weeks embarrassing
Clinton claimed the attack arose spontaneously out of a street
hearings may lead to Gowdys committee finally being disbanded,
protest against an anti-Muslim YouTube video. This is no mere
game of gotcha, said The Wall Street Journal in an editorial. The but Benghazi will always be with us.
QA public school district
in Northern California will

soon give passing grades to
students with failing scores in
order not to demoralize them.
The schools will adopt the
equal-interval scale, which
deems a passing grade to be
anything above 20 percent;
scores between 80 and 85
get an A-. This isnt giving a
student hope, said one angry
teacher. Its lowering standards in order to raise grades.
QTwin sisters in Georgia
were denied their learners
permits last week when the
Department of Motor Vehicles
computer identified them
as the same person. After
Alicia and Alicen Kennedy,
15, had their pictures taken,
the DMVs facial recognition
software tagged the photos
as fraudulent. We dont look
exactly alike. Alicia said. But
it cant tell us apart. The DMV
pledged to investigate.
Good week for:

Channeling Bruce Lee, after a police department in Northern
California decided to equip officers with nunchakuswooden sticks

connected by a chain and featured in many martial arts movies
to better subdue unruly suspects.
Settling down, after former New York Yankees starand notorious bachelorDerek Jeter reportedly proposed to his longtime
girlfriend, supermodel Hannah Davis.
Topping the polls, after the greenrooms for leading candidates
Donald Trump, Marco Rubio, and Carly Fiorina at this weeks
GOP debate were outfitted with amenities like theater-style seating,
large-screen TVs, and a Jacuzzi. This is ridiculous, said an aide to
low-polling New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie. Were in a restroom.
Bad week for:

Philanthropy, after billionaire Sanford Weill and his wife, Joan,
withdrew their $20 million pledge to a cash-strapped New York

college when a judge ruled that the school could not be renamed in
their honor. The will of the schools founder requires that the institution be forever known as Paul Smiths College.
Art appreciation, after a cleaning crew at an Italian museum
mistook an exhibit for garbage and threw it away. The piece was
restored after its contentsempty champagne bottles, cigarette
butts, and confettiwere found in a recycling bin.
Australian pride, after a communications expert at Victoria
University in Melbourne claimed that the modern Aussie accent
developed because early settlers of the onetime penal colony were
frequently drunk and slurred their words.
Boring but important

Cybersecurity bill passes
The Senate quietly approved
a controversial cybersecurity
bill this week that would allow
tech and telecom companies to
share their users information
with the federal government.
The Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act (CISA), which
passed 74-21, would set up
a voluntary forum in which
companies and government
agencies could exchange data
about cyberattacks and other
threat indicators. Supporters of the bill say it will help
protect companies from
hackers. But privacy groups
claim the legislation sanctions
a new form of government
surveillanceparticularly since
senators rejected an amendment that would have forced
companies to remove personally identifiable information before sharing it. The legislation
must now be reconciled with
two other cybersecurity bills.
AP
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The U.S. at a glance ...
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Chicago
Hastert pleads guilty:
Former House Speaker
Dennis Hastert admitted this week to trying
to evade federal banking
laws and lying to federal
investigators, as part
of a secretive plea deal
over allegations he paid
hush money to a former
student. Hastert, 73,
Hastert
was charged in July with
breaking federal banking laws after allegedly paying $1.7 million to an unnamed
Individual A for misdeeds decades
agothough authorities didnt specify
the details of the alleged misconduct.
A federal law enforcement official said
Individual A was a former student who
claims he was molested by Hastertwho
worked as a teacher and wrestling coach
at Yorkville High School before running
for office; the individual later
demanded $3.5 million to keep
quiet. Hastert initially pleaded
not guilty, but may have
accepted the plea deal in a bid
to keep the specifics of the
case sealed. He faces up to six
months in prison at a sentencing hearing in February.
Henderson, Nev.
Cryotherapy death: The safety of a
controversial health treatment known
as cryotherapy was being questioned this
week after a Las Vegas spa employee was
found frozen
to death in one
of her salons
sub-zero tanks.
Chelsea AkeSalvacion, 24,
had finished
an evening
shift at the
Ake-Salvacion: Frozen
Rejuvenice spa
in the suburb of Henderson when she
entered the whole-body chamber for a
deep-freeze therapy session. Cryotherapy
advocates claim the treatmentin which
a person is blasted for several minutes
with air cooled to temperatures as low as
minus 240 Fahrenheithelps burn calories, tighten the skin, and reduce pain.
But health experts say the process is little
more than a potentially dangerous fad.
Ake-Salvacions frozen-solid body was
found the next day; medical examiners
said she had suffocated to death within
seconds in the machine, whose doors
do not lock. The salon has since been
shut down by Nevada officials for operating without the proper licenses.
York, Pa.
Deadly infection: A Pennsylvania hospital this week notified more than 1,300
open-heart surgery patients that they may
have been exposed to a deadly bacterial
infection during their operations. Four
patients at the WellSpan York Hospital
have died in the past four years after contracting nontuberculous mycobacteria, or
NTMthough all were reportedly suffering from other health conditions. At least
four others were infected but survived.
The hospital said it believes the bacteria
may have escaped through the exhaust
systems of heater-cooler devices that are
used to cool or heat a patient during surgery. Anyone who underwent open-heart
surgery at the hospital between Oct. 1,
2011, and July 24, 2015, is at risk of
having been exposed to the bacteria,
administrators said. WellSpan officials
also confirmed that they had replaced the
devices, which are under safety scrutiny
by the Food and Drug Administration.
Stillwater, Okla.
Homecoming tragedy: A 25-year-old
woman faced murder charges this week
after allegedly plowing her car into a
crowd at Oklahoma State Universitys
homecoming paradekilling four people,
including a 2-year-old boy. Suspect Adacia
Chambers was being held on four preliminary counts of second-degree murder
while authorities conducted a psychological evaluation. Chambers was initially
arrested on suspicion of driving under
the influence, but her lawyer said she had
been treated for mental-health-related
issues in the past and was suicidal when
she allegedly ran a red light, drove around
a police barricade, and crashed into a
crowd of spectatorssending people flying into the air. The lawyer added that he
was not sure if Chambers was even aware
that she was in jail. Nearly 50 people
were injured in the incident, including 11
children under the age of 13.
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Washington, D.C.
IRS impeachment: Frustrated
House Republicans moved
to impeach IRS
Commissioner
John Koskinen
this week, days
after the Justice
Koskinen: Under fire
Department
announced it was closing its two-year
investigation into whether the government agency targeted conservative groups.
House Oversight Committee chairman
Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah), who introduced
the resolution calling for Koskinens
removal, claimed the IRS chief failed to
comply with the committees own investigation and had allowed the backup
emails of former IRS official Lois Lerner
to be destroyed. Koskinens impeachment
is the only way to demonstrate to the
American people that the IRS is under
repair, Chaffetz said. The IRS has been
accused of politically targeting Tea
Party and other conservative
groups seeking tax-exempt status, but the Justice Department
said it had found only evidence
of mismanagement, poor judgment, and institutional inertia
during its investigation and declined to
charge anyone with wrongdoing. Poor
management is not a crime, Assistant
Attorney General Peter Kadzik said.
Tallahassee
Bear hunt: Florida officials were forced
to end this weeks controversial bear hunt
early after
hunters killed
298 black
bears in just
two days
close to the
legal limit of
320 for the
weeklong
Protesting the cull
event. More
than 3,200 hunters purchased permits
for the 2015 hunt, which went ahead
despite a huge outcry from animal rights
activists. The brief hunting season was
approved by the state Fish and Wildlife
Commission in June in a bid to contain
Floridas surging bear population, which
has risen to about 3,500 from a few
hundred in the 1970s. Hunters were
permitted to use shotguns, revolvers, and
crossbows in the limited bear harvest,
but prohibited from using dogs or baits
to lure the animals. Authorities admitted
they were surprised by the number of
bears killed, but said that it was proof
that the bear population was even larger
than they thought.
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The world at a glance ...
Tofino, British Columbia

Whale-watching boat sinks: A
freak wave capsized a whalewatching cruise boat off the
coast of British Columbia this
week, killing five British tourists
and leaving one Australian missing. Most of the passengers and
crew were up on the top deck
on the port side, which altered
Leviathan II: Hit by a freak wave
the boats center of gravity, when
a wave hit at just the right angle to flip the ship. The captain
had no time to send a distress call, but one of the crew shot up a
flare, and fishing boats from the nearby Ahousaht First Nation
rushed to the site and pulled 21 survivors from the frigid water.
Many had not had a chance to put on life vests and were soaked
with diesel fuel. This vessels operated for 20 years with an
absolutely perfect safety record, said Jamie Bray, owner of the
Leviathan II. This is something just totally out of the blue.
Warsaw
Move to the right: Tapping into anti-immigrant sentiment, the right-wing Law and Justice party made a
stunning comeback in Poland this week, becoming
the first party to govern without a coalition since
democracy was restored in 1989. Party chairman
Jaroslaw Kaczynski campaigned on opposition to
the European Union plan to redistribute migrants
using a national quota system. He said migrants
Kaczynski
could carry diseases and parasites that were dangerous to Europeans. But Kaczynski, an abrasive figure whose more
popular twin brother, Lech, was president for four years until he
died in a 2010 plane crash, wont be prime minister; Beata Szydlo
will take that role. Law and Justice won 38 percent of the vote,
compared with 24 percent for the former ruling Civic Platform.
Guatemala City
Comic president: Guatemalans fed up with corruption
have elected a pop culture figure with no political experience to be their new president. Jimmy Morales, 46, is
a former TV host and comedian who ran on the slogan
neither corrupt nor a thiefa welcome concept
given that Guatemalas previous president and
vice president are both in jail on charges of runMorales: Funnyman
ning a customs kickback scheme. Morales faces
huge challenges, because 54 percent of Guatemalas 15.8 million
citizens live on just $1.50 a day, and drug cartels control much of
the country and many of its politicians. Its unclear who will be
in his administration. Morales has not articulated a program of
government, said former U.S. Ambassador to Guatemala Donald
Planty, and many of his backers are unknown.
Caracas, Venezuela
Universities shuttered: Eighteen public universities in Venezuela
havent started classes yet this term because tens of thousands of
professors are on strike. The teachers say the schools lack basic
resources like books and lab equipment, and they want their salaries to be raised to compensate for
the countrys 150 percent inflation rate. Professors in Venezuela
earn less than one-fifth what their
colleagues in Colombia, Brazil,
Mexico, and Chile do. Even senior
faculty are only paid about $100
a month, and thousands of them
have quit over the past five years
to take posts abroad.
Not open for learning
Brasilia, Brazil
House speakers loot: The politician leading
Cunha
the charge to impeach Brazilian President
Dilma Rousseff for manipulating government accounts has
himself been accused of pocketing millions. Brazils top court
seized $2.5 million this week from Swiss bank accounts alleged
to belong to House Speaker Eduardo Cunha. The opposition
leader, an evangelical Christian, is also accused of owning a fleet
of luxury cars, including a $400,000 Porsche registered to one
of his companies, Jesus.com. One Brazilian columnist this week
called him a Batman villain. Cunha denies that any of the bank
accounts and properties are his, even though they are registered in
his name, with his passport number and address.
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London
Blair a bit sorry: Former Prime Minister Tony Blair, despised by
many of his countrymen for taking the U.K. into Iraq, said this
week he is sorry that the premise of the 2003 invasionthat
dictator Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destructionwas
based on false reports. I can say that I apologize for the fact that
the intelligence we received was wrong, he told CNN. But I
find it hard to apologize for removing Saddam. Asked whether
the invasion and the subsequent chaos were to blame for the rise
of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, Blair said there were elements of truth to that view, but added that the militant group
began in Syria, not Iraq. The results of a public inquiry into
Britains involvement in the Iraq War are to be released soon.
The world at a glance ...

Palmyra, Syria
Savage executions: The Islamic
State of Iraq and Syria killed three
captives this week by tying them to
Roman-era columns in the ancient
city of Palmyra and blowing them
up. ISIS has been systematically
destroying the magnificent ruins at
Destroying lives and history
Palmyra, once an important crossroads between the Persian and Roman empires, since it captured
the city in May. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a
British-based group with a network of activists in Syria, said the
three people killed were civilians, but that their identities were not
known. Also this week, ISIS posted images online of militants killing a captured Syrian soldier by driving a tank over him.
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Badakhshan, Afghanistan
Devastating quake: Rescue workers struggled to reach survivors
of the magnitude-7.5 earthquake
that struck a remote mountainous region near the border of
Afghanistan and Pakistan this
week. The powerful quake killed
at least 300 people, injured thousands, and destroyed some 10,000
Afghans pick through the ruins.
homes in both countries. The
region is hard to reach even when roads are clear, and now supplies have to be airlifted in by the Pakistani army amid rain and
snow. We are extremely concerned for the safety and well-being
of children in danger of succumbing to the elements as temperatures plummet, said Shelagh Woods of Doctors Without Borders.
In Afghanistan, the Taliban said its fighters would assist aid
workers, but aid agencies are wary of accepting militant help.
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Beijing
Anger over U.S. ship: China has denounced the sailing of a U.S. warship near one of its newly built
artificial islands in the South China Sea as
a provocation that threatened
Chinas sovereignty and security.
China claims almost all of that
USS Lassen: Provocative maneuver
sea as its territoryincluding
parts claimed by the Philippines, Vietnam, and other nations
and has been constructing military bases on artificial islands to
bolster those claims. The U.S. sent the destroyer USS Lassen
within 12 nautical miles of Subi Reef to demonstrate American
insistence on freedom of navigation in the area, through which
some 30 percent of global trade passes. If any country wishes
to disrupt or impede Chinas reasonable, justifiable, and lawful
activities on our own territories by playing some little tricks, said
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Lu Kang, I would advise
these countries to cast off this fantasy.
Johannesburg
Student protests: After weeks
of massive student protests,
Education activists on the streets
the South African government
has canceled a planned 10 percent increase in university tuition.
The Fees Must Fall movement mobilized thousands of students
across the country to occupy campuses, in the largest show of
student activism since the 1976 Soweto uprisings against the
imposition of Afrikaans as the official school language. Economic
inequality in South Africa has soared since apartheid ended in
1994, and a university education is far too expensive for most
blacks. Students are demanding more scholarships for the poor
as well as what they call the decolonization of higher education.
South Africa is 8 percent white, yet more than half of college professors there are white.
Kobe, Japan
Yakuza cancel Halloween: Japans largest
organized crime syndicate, the Yamaguchigumi, has called off its annual Halloween
festival for kids because of fear of violence. The group, which made millions
of dollars off extortion and gambling
and is now a business conglomerate
with property and construction firms,
operates openly in the community, and its
No treats this year
Halloween event is a Kobe tradition. But
last month, the yakuza syndicate split into two rival factions, and
members are bracing for a gang war.
Beirut
Saudi prince arrested: Lebanese authorities
have detained a Saudi prince in connection
with the largest drug bust ever in the country. Prince Abdul Mohsen bin Walid bin
Abdul Aziz al-Saud was allegedly stopped at
the Beirut airport with 2 tons of Captagon
amphetamine pills in his private jet, bound
for Saudi Arabia. The U.N. Office on
Part of the drug haul
Drugs and Crime says Syrian-based terrorist groups, including ISIS and Al Nusra Front, are believed to
be involved in producing counterfeit Captagon, the Saudi drug of
choice. In Saudi Arabia, drug smuggling is punishable by death.
People
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Radcliffes Potter problem
Daniel Radcliffe knows hell never escape Harry

Potter, said Rob Tannenbaum in Playboy. The
British actor was 11 when he started playing
the boy wizard, but only understood how the
role would dominate the rest of his life when he
hit his late teens. When I was first going out
to bars, I was trying to pretend I could have a
normal existence, he says. Then you realize
that people know who you are, and they take out their camera
phones. Eventually, you have to adapt how you live. While still
playing Potter, Radcliffe took other acting jobs that stretched him
and confounded expectations: At age 17 he starred in Equus on
Broadway, and spent much of the play naked on stage. I was
very aware that a certain percentage of that audience was coming
to look at my d---. I have a lot of respect for myself for having the
balls to do it, so to speak. Radcliffe, now 26, assumed the attention would die down once the multibillion-dollar Potter franchise
ended in 2011. Instead, he is recognized more often than ever. If
you were 14 when the first film came out, youd now be almost in
your 30s and could well have a child under 10 whom youre introducing to Harry Potter. Were already getting the next generation.
Its never going away.
The cop with super recognition powers
QBillionaire businessman Rupert Murdoch

has been secretly dating Jerry Hall for
weeks, says the Mail on Sunday (U.K.)
and the pair are about to go public with
their relationship. Murdoch had sworn off
love after the breakdown of his
third marriage, to Wendi Deng,
amid rumors Deng had become
infatuated with former British
Prime Minister Tony Blair.
But then one of Murdochs
sisters introduced the
media mogul to Hall, 59, in
Australia, and the two have
been romantically involved
ever since. Murdoch, 84, has
taken the Texan model and
Gomezs secret battle with lupus

Selena Gomez wants to set the record straight, said Chris Martins
in Billboard. Two years ago, the singer and former Disney Channel
star abruptly canceled a tour of Asia and Australia, saying she
needed to spend some time on myself. When Gomez checked
into an Arizona rehab facility the following month, tabloids and
gossip sites began speculating about reasons for her stay. Some
claimed she was addicted to painkillers or alcohol; others suggested she couldnt cope after her breakup with Justin Bieber, her
boyfriend of two years. In fact, Gomez had been diagnosed with
the autoimmune disease lupus. Thats what my break was really
about. I couldve had a stroke, she says. I wanted so badly to say,
You guys have no idea. Im in chemotherapy. Youre a--holes. But I
was angry I even felt the need to say that. The false rumors made
her recovery all the harder. Its awful walking into a restaurant
and having the whole room look at you, knowing what theyre
saying. I locked myself away until I was confident and comfortable
again. Rather than get angry at the gossip sites that still hound
her daily, Gomez, 23, has learned to channel that energy back into
her acting and music career. The hate, she says, motivated me.
former long-term girlfriend of rocker Mick

Jagger to see the musical Hamilton in New
York City, and on dates in California. Its all
very new, said a source. They are really
enjoying each others company very much.
QNBC executives are increasingly concerned about Jimmy Fallon, says Radar
Online.com, after the Tonight Show host
injured himself for the second time in
months. Fallon was celebrating in Cambridge, Mass., after being honored by the
Harvard Lampoon when, witnesses say, he
tripped and fell on a bottle of Jgermeister
he was holding, cutting his right hand. The
comedian was already nursing a serious
injury to his left hand following a late-night
kitchen accident in June, and had also
recently visited the dentist after allegedly
chipping a tooth while trying to open a
bottle of medicine for his hand. An insider

said the series of incidents had prompted
network execs to have several very frank
and honest conversations about Jimmy
though a source close to Fallon insisted he
was totally fine.
QZooey Deschanel has revealed the name
of her new childand its about as kooky
as you can imagine. The New Girl actress,
who gave birth in August, and her producer
husband, Jacob Pechenik, have decided
to call their baby daughter Elsie Otter:
Elsie because they like the name and Otter
because we both love otters. They are very
sweet, and they are also smart, Deschanel
explained on NBCs Today Show. They use
tools. They hold hands while they sleep.
There are so many amazing things about
otters. Who doesnt love otters?
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British policeman Gary Collins never forgets a face, said Katrin

Bennhold in The New York Times. Since 2011, Londons police
force has had an elite unit of so-called super recognizerscops
with exceptional facial recognition skills, who can pick out known
pickpockets at tourist spots, spot sex offenders in concert crowds,
and recognize suspects on security camera footage. Constable
Collins, the units star, can match a grainy security camera image
to a face he saw on a database or street corner years earlier. I
always recognized people, he says, but as a kid you dont know
you have a gift; you just think everybody is like you. During the
2011 London riotsthe groups first assignmentfacial recognition software identified just one of 4,000 suspects caught on camera; Collins identified 180. His abilities have won him admirers
on both sides of the law. Whenever one particular gang leader sees
him on the street, he tests Collins on the names of his gang mates.
When I tell them, they cheer and give me a high five. But when
hes off duty, his powers can be a curse. Recently, Collins was
almost punched. Sometimes I stare a bit too long, but I cant help
it. This guy I was looking at was like, What are you looking at?
What are you looking at?
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Firearms and self-defense

The NRA says the only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun. Is that right?
Are guns used often in self-defense?
What figures?
that a person with a gun was 4.5 times more

likely to be shot in an assault than someone
who was unarmed.
What about home intrusions?
For many Americans, guns equal safety.
Having a gun close at hand might make

you feel better protected against violent
burglars, but in fact the annual per capita
risk of death during a home invasion is
0.0000002 percentessentially zero. On
the other hand, a 2014 study from the University of California, San Francisco, shows
that people with a gun in the house are three
times as likely to kill themselves as non
firearm owners. More than 20,000 Americans shoot themselves to death each year,
accounting for two-thirds of gun fatalities.
Its not that gun owners are more suicidal,
said Catherine Barber, who heads a suicide
prevention project at the Harvard School of
Public Health. Its that theyre more likely
to die in the event that they become suicidal,
because they are using a gun.
Do armed civilians ever foil mass shootings?
Gun skeptics note that in 2012 there were 8,855 criminal gun
Yes, but not regularly. An FBI study of 160 active-shooter events
homicides in the FBIs database, but only 258 fatal shootings that
between 2000 and 2013 found seven incidents in which an armed
were deemed justifiablewhich the agency defines as the kill- civilian shot the gunman and ended the rampage. Only one of
ing of a felon, during the commission of a felony, by a private
those involved a typical good guy with a gun; professionals
citizen. Another study by the nonpartisan Gun Violence Archive, off-duty cops and armed security guardsfired in the six other
based on FBI and Justice Department data, found that of nearly
cases. Still, good guys do occasionally stop shooting sprees:
52,000 recorded shootings in 2014, there were fewer than 1,600
Earlier this year, a concealed-carry holder in Philadelphia shot a
verified cases where firearms were used for self-defense. Gun
gunman who suddenly opened fire inside a packed barbershop,
advocates counter that not all instances of defensive gun use are
killing him before he took anyone elses life. It could have been a
reported to the police, and that in most
lot worse, said police Capt. Frank
cases shots are never fired, because
Llewellyn. He saved a lot of people
When good guys stand down
simply displaying a weapon can deter
in there. But generally speaking,
Student and Air Force vet John Parker Jr. was
a criminal. Firearms can ensure your
authorities are uneasy about such
legally armed and ready for action when shooter
or your familys personal safety, said
civilian interventions.
Chris Harper-Mercer went on a rampage and killed
Brian Doherty, author of Gun Control
nine people at Oregons Umpqua Community
on Trial, even if you dont actually
Whys that?
College in early October. But Parker and several
plug some human varmint dead.
Because most civilians dont have
other veterans on campus resisted the urge to
the skills to handle an activeenter the fray, fearing police would mistake them
Will a gun make you safer?
shooter situation. In some states,
for additional shooters. Luckily we made the
Most Americans think so. According
a concealed-carry permit requires
choice not to get involved, Parker said, which
could have opened us up to being potential tarto recent Gallup polls, 63 percent
no firearms training at all. The
gets ourselves. Joe Zamudio, a hero in the 2011
of adults believe having a gun in
notion that you walk into a gun
mass shooting in Tucson that seriously wounded
the house will make them safer and
store and youre ready for game day
former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, helped subdue
56 percent think the country would
is ridiculous, says David Chipman,
gunman Jared Loughnerbut not before he
be safer if more people carried conwho served on a SWAT team with
nearly shot an innocent man. Leaving a drug
cealed weapons. But numerous studies
the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco,
store as shots rang out, I clicked the safety off,
suggest that owning a gun can actuFirearms, and Explosives. A recent
and I was ready, Zamudio recalled. I had my
ally increase a persons risk of bodily
case in Houston highlights the risks
hand on my gun [in] my jacket pocket. As he
harm and death. Research published
of good guys opening fire: A man
rounded a corner, Zamudio saw a man holding
this year in the American Journal of
who saw a carjacking in progress
a gun. And thats who I at first thought was the
Epidemiology found that the 80 million shooter. I told him to Drop it, drop it! In fact, it
shot at the perpetrators, but missed
Americans who keep guns in the home
and hit the car owner in the head.
was another man, who had wrested the gun away
were 90 percent more likely to die by
Sometimes, Chipman says, the best
from Loughner. Fortunately, Zamudio held his fire.
homicide than Americans who dont.
thing to do is not to play hero, but
Honestly, it was a matter of seconds, he said. I
A paper in the American Journal of
instead try to be the best witness
was really lucky.
Public Health, meanwhile, determined
you can be.
Getty
Not veryalthough the evidence on this issue

is hotly disputed. National Rifle Association
executive vice president Wayne LaPierre is often
quoted as saying, The only way to stop a
bad guy with a gun is with a good guy with a
gun. LaPierre and gun-rights advocates point
to research that supports this argument, chiefly
a 1994 study by Gary Kleck, a Florida State
University criminologist. Based on a telephone
survey of about 6,000 people, Kleck concluded
that guns are used defensively to stop a range
of crimes, from simple assault to burglary to
rape, up to 2.5 million times a year. But other
academics and statisticians have criticized
Klecks conclusions, saying he relied on firearms owners self-reporting their defensive gun
useproblematic because some respondents
might have categorized aggressive, unlawful
gun use as self-defenseand then extrapolated
that unreliable data to cover the entire nation.
Those critics point to other figures that suggest
defensive gun use is actually quite rare.
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Money
makes Jeb
tone deaf
Froma Harrop
Newsday
Obamacares
looming
death spiral
Betsy McCaughey
New York Post
When police
refuse to
do their job
David Graham
TheAtlantic.com
Corbis
Viewpoint
What happened to Jeb Bush? asked Froma Harrop. The onetime

Republican presidential favorite is desperately lagging in the pollshes
in single digits in his home state of Floridaand last week slashed
his campaign payroll by 40 percent and asked some staff to work as
volunteers. Bushs Super PAC, which, crucially, cannot pay his staff or
any other direct campaign costs, raised an astonishing $103 million
in the first six months of this year. Bushs mistake was to think that
this cash pile freed him from the chore of dealing with the partys
difficult grassroots voters. He cast himself as the go-to man for business interests seeking favors from government, a stance that alienated
members of the GOP base who despise corporate welfare. Bush
further aggravated the hard right with his relatively moderate stance
on immigration, and even alienated some corporate donors by behaving as if they need him more than he needs them. Sure, the man
who has replaced Bush as front-runner, Donald Trump, has way more
money in the bank. But Trump is focusing his energies on appealing to
the little people. Bush seems to have forgotten that dollars dont win
electionsvotes do.
Obamacare is heading toward a death spiral, said Betsy McCaughey.
The administration recently admitted that the number of people enrolled
in state insurance exchanges will inch up by around 1 million in 2016,
to 10 million or soless than half the 21 million enrollees the Congressional Budget Office predicted in March. Despite federal subsidies to
help with premiums, and a hefty increase in the financial penalty for
not having insurance, most uninsured people eligible for Obamacare
are saying no thanks. Younger, healthier Americans arent getting on
board because the premiums are too high, and that in turn is causing a
shortfall in the funds needed to cover the costs of older and sicker enrollees. That shortfall has led to premium hikes of 30 percent or more in
many states, discouraging even more young people from signing up.
The Obama administration wont admit this, of course. Instead, the
government will continue to make the Affordable Care Act look more
affordable than it is by using taxpayer money to subsidize insurance
companies loss-making exchange plans. How much longer can this obfuscation go on? Ultimately, trying to sell insurance to sick and healthy
people for the same price is a strategy destined to fail.
FBI Director James Comey seems to believe you can have a transparent
police force or an effective police force, but not both, said David Graham. Addressing police chiefs at a conference last week, Comey said
he had a strong sense that the heightened public scrutiny of officers
following last years police shooting of a Ferguson, Mo., teenager was
behind a recent spike in crime. Cops feel constrained, he said, wary of
becoming the next viral villain in someones cellphone video, and consequently criminals have been growing bolder. As Comey acknowledged,
theres no clear evidence supporting the so-called Ferguson effect, and
factors like cheaper street drugs could be contributing to higher crime
rates. But imagine Comey is right, and camera-shy police really are
holding back. The implication of the Ferguson effect argument is that
police cant keep citizens safe and crime rates low without massive
civil rights violationssuch as the aggressive use of force, racial profiling, and so onthat cause outrage when caught on camera. If thats
true, then American policing is much more troubled than Comey and
other officials are willing to admit.
I figured out early on that I wasnt cut out to be a neurosurgeon or fighter

pilot. So I kinda aimed low my whole life. It worked for me. Sure, the world
needs some ambitious people. But its worth noting that ambition has given us products like New
Coke, men like Donald Trump, and war after war. Ambition certainly doesnt seem to make the ambitious particularly happy. By definition, they cannot be content with who they are and what they
have. And the world seems to encourage them to inflict their desire for advancement on the rest of
us. So to all you ambitious folks out there: Enough. Ill gladly concede that you all win. Just leave
the rest of us alone.
Jim Perskie in The Washington Post
NEWS 15
It must be true...
I read it in the tabloids

QMichigan police had little
trouble tracking down an

intruder who allegedly
burglarized a kitchen full of
baked goods, because she
was found covered in the evidence. A homeowner called
911 to say that shed confronted an unknown woman
in her home, and that the intruder knocked over a tray of
cupcakes as she fled. Police
said they apprehended the
intoxicated suspect several
blocks away, with cupcake
frosting and cake all over her
torso and legs. The woman,
who has not been identified,
was charged with unlawful
entry and malicious destruction of property.
QThe Chinese city of Zhengzhou is literally crawling with
people.
In parks
across
the city,
residents
are practicing a
peculiar
fitness trendbending their
bodies parallel to the ground
and scuttling forward on their
hands and feet. Doctors say
the new craze has its roots
in ancient Chinese medicine,
and modern enthusiasts
claim the morning crawl
soothes their aches and
pains. One fan said, Crawling every day around the
footpath will relax you.
QAuthorities in Auburn, Ca-
lif., removed two men from a

city sewerwhere theyd allegedly spent six months digging for gold. Restaurateur
Ruben Ramirez discovered
the mining operation after
hearing pounding noises
under his kitchen; squeezing into the storm drain, he
found a flashlight, chocolates,
and cigarettes. The sewer
prospectors, who had caused
some damage but were not
arrested, likely chose the spot
because its near the Sierra
Nevada goldfields. But Im
here to tell you theres not
any significant gold in our
storm drains, said Auburn
City Manager Tim Rundel.
16 NEWS
IRELAND
Why we
shun the
Travelers
Victoria White
Irish Examiner
GREECE
Synonymous
with debt
and corruption
Nikos Konstandaras
Kathimerini
Best columns: Europe

Even in their hour of need, Travelers find little
pity in Ireland, said Victoria White. These gypsylike, ethnically Irish nomadic people suffered a
terrible loss recently, when a fire broke out at one
of the temporary stopover sites where they park
their campers. Ten Travelers died, five of them
young children. Surviving members of that family are now returning from the funerals, and they
have nowhere to go. Already, local councils and
politicians are offering reasons why they cant
be housed in this or that localenobody wants
a Traveler encampment in their neighborhood.
Indeed, some officials advocate forcing Travelers
to abandon their nomadic ways and settle down

in conventional housing, which is tantamount to
saying they should stop being who they are. Why
do we resent the Travelers so? Is it because they
embody our own recent past? Their community
suffers from the former Irish ills of widespread
illiteracy, and shockingly low life expectancy. Yet
they also have a profound Catholic faith and rich
spiritual traditions connected to the land. Ireland has a duty to embrace these people, our cousins, by providing safe and hygienic stopover sites in
our communities. After all, dont Christians open
their doors to others when they are in trouble?
Its sad and humiliating to see Greece become a

synonym for basket case, said Nikos Konstandaras. A South African newspaper recently asked if
Kenya was turning into Africas Greece, while
a Brazilian economist described his countrys
crumbling economy as Greece writ large. We cant
solely blame the current left-wing Syriza government, which has been in office since January, because it took decades of mismanagement, waste,
and populism to get Greece into such terrible
shape. But Syriza has not helped. Rather than
correcting these Greek failings, Prime Minister
Alexis Tsipras has presented them as virtues.
He has sought to force our creditors in Europe
and beyond to allow us to maintain a bloated

bureaucracy and chaotic tax system, and its not
going over well. Even Podemos, a leftist party in
Spain that once modeled itself on Syriza, is now
trying to convince voters that they are very different from the Greeks. Time has run out. We can
no longer delude ourselves that our old ways can
continue, nor can we believe that the world owes
us because of our heritage. Still, if Greece has
become the go-to metaphor for a failing nation,
we can take some comfort in knowing that we
are not the only country to screw up so badly.
Others face similar challengesand if they can
reform, so can we.
United Kingdom: Camerons pivot to China
Especially because those deals are madness, said Polly Toynbee

in The Guardian. Our Conservative government, which claims
to be pro-privatization, has invited a Chinese state-owned company to build three nuclear power plants hereeven though
British intelligence sources have warned that potentially malicious software could be built into the plants software, to be
activated at a later date. Nobody on the free market wanted
to invest in the plants, despite the walloping sweetener of a
guaranteed high price for the resulting energyso why do the
Chinese? Theyve already all but destroyed our steel industry,
said George Tyndale in the Sunday Mercury. The Chinese are
Why shouldnt Britain turn toward the worlds rising power?

asked Niall Ferguson in The Times. The U.S. has already announced its own pivot to Asia, and its unclear whether the
point is to contain Chinas military or just to compete with
the big European economies for Chinas business. In 10 years,
Chinas international investment position could reach 30 percent
of global GDP. Given that London is one of the worlds preeminent financial centers, it would be gross negligence if Britain did not lay the groundwork to channel that wealth. It isnt
selling out to seek a strong relationship with Chinait is simply
good historical judgment.
Alamy
flooding the market with cheap

Britain is kowtowing before China like
steel, pushing British steelworkers
a sniveling supplicant, said the Sunday
out of jobs, yet our leaders refuse
Mail in an editorial. During Chinese
to man up and make them stop.
President Xi Jinpings state visit to the
Cameron and Osborne see hangU.K. last week, the fawning behavior
ing from the coattails of bigger naof Prime Minister David Cameron
tions and pleading for scraps as a
and Chancellor George Osborne was
safer option.
embarrassing, abject, and morally
bereft. They paraded Xi through
Not only did we not stand up to
London in the queens most ostentaChina, we may have done its dirty
tious gilded carriage, as hundreds of
work, said The Independent. British
pro-China demonstratorsno doubt
police arrested a Chinese dissident
trucked in by the embassywaved
survivor of the Tiananmen Square
Chinese flags and cheered. They feted
Xi and Cameron chat over a traditional British pint.
massacre, raided his London home,
him at a state dinner studded with royand kept him in jail overnight for the trivial alleged misdealty and put him up at Buckingham Palace itself. Did we need
meanor of holding up a banner criticizing the regime. Police
to be quite so oily to win favor with a country where human
rights activists are dying in custody? Infrastructure deals worth corralled anti-Chinese protesters far from the parade route while
allowing embassy stooges to line the streets. Beijing is a notorisome $46 billion were struck, and perhaps Britain needs the
ous bullyare we now its thug?
cash. But it seems a cheap price for a countrys dignity.
Best columns: International
NEWS 17
Israel: What is the uprising really about?

Palestinians from Israel-controlled
The young Palestinians who have
East Jerusalem. People with an
carried out a wave of knife attacks
Israeli identity card are going out
on Israeli Jews in recent weeks have
to murder other people with an
been radicalized by a sea of lies,
Israeli identity card. That makes
said Gil Troy in The Jerusalem Post.
it all but impossible for Israeli
Palestinian President Mahmoud
security to prevent the attacks,
Abbas whipped up anger against
said Yossi Yehoshua, also in YNet
Jews by saying that their filthy
News.com. The terrorists are selffeet were contaminating Jerusalems
recruiting, radicalizing themselves
Al-Aqsa Mosque, and by falsely
by watching gruesome videos
claiming that Israel intended to
posted online by the Islamic State
change the rules governing access
of Iraq and Syria or listening to into the Temple Mount, a site holy
flammatory sermons. They go to
to both Jews and Muslims. In fact,
sleep as ordinary citizens and wake
all Israel did was rein in the radical
up in the morning as terrorists.
Islamist groups that were bullyPalestinians in the West Bank cheer the knife attacks.
ing Christian and Jewish visitors
This hell is what the one-state solution looks like, said Ari Shavit
to the complex. The status quo around the Temple Mount has
in Haaretz. For a decade now, there have been no real diplochanged, said Ariel Kahana in Maariv, but in favor of Arabs,
matic advances toward a two-state solution, and weve moved
not Jews. Seeking to reassure misled Palestinians, Israeli Prime
steadily closer to the fondest dream of the extreme right and
Minister Benjamin Netanyahu proclaimed last week that only
the extreme leftone state for Israelis and Palestinians. The reMuslims were allowed to pray on the Mount. Until now, this
cent history of the Middle East should have taught us this would
was de facto policy, but Netanyahu has made it de jure. The
Palestinians cant justify an intifada, or uprising, based on imag- be a disasterlook at Syria or Iraq, where members of different
religions and sects tried to coexist and ended up slaughtering
ined Jewish changes to the Temple Mount.
each other. Those who opposed a Palestinian state said it would
lead to a jihadist stronghold on our doorstep. Well, now we
But its not an intifada, said Benny Cohen in YNetNews.com.
dont have militant jihadists across the border, but rather within
These attacks, which have so far left at least eight Israelis dead,
the border. The only way to stop the uprising is to exchange
are the start of a civil war. The last two intifadas were orgathe one-state dynamic for a two-state dynamic. If we do not,
nized by the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank or Hamas in
Gaza, and the suicide bombers and attackers were armed and sent sooner or later the land will once again sink into a quagmire of
into Israel from the territories. Todays attackers are mostly young hatred, paranoia, and bloodshed.
GUATEMALA
The people
demand only
honesty
Editorial
El Quetzalteco
MEXICO
Vigilantes
arise where
police fail
Jos Gil Olmos
Corbis
Proceso
Guatemala has awakened, said El Quetzalteco.

The election of comedian Jimmy Morales as president this week is a new dawn for the country, a
chance to scrub away the corruption festering at
all levels of government. Morales is the ultimate
outsider, a man with no political experience or
connections, and an evangelical Protestant in an
overwhelmingly Catholic country. His election isnt
the victory of his center-right party, nor even of
the candidate, but rather the victory of the people
who have been protesting in the streets since April,
calling for a transcendental transformation.
The corruption scandal that brought down former
President Otto Molina, now in jail awaiting trial

for a scheme of kickbacks and bribes, demoralized the country. Voters turned to Morales because
he promised he would be neither corrupt nor
a thief, and would speak the truth to them, no
matter how uncomfortable. His task is daunting.
He must utterly reform the broken tax system and
the electoral law. And he must accomplish all this
with a fractured legislature in which he has little
support, his party having won just 11 out of 158
seats. This will take patience and consensus building. But as long as Morales keeps his vow of
transparency, Guatemalans will be with him.
Mexico is descending into outright lawlessness

and violence, said Jos Gil Olmos. Killings and
kidnappings by drug gangs and dirty cops have
become routine, and now the violence is infecting ordinary Mexicans. Last week, two young
men from Mexico City who went to the town of
Ajalpan to conduct a poll on tortilla consumption were lynched by a mob that suspected them
of trying to kidnap a child. Police said the men
were entirely innocent and tried to protect them,
but since nobody trusts the police anymore, the
officers assertion was worth nothing. A crowd
dragged the men out of City Hall, beat them to
death, and burned their bodies. Such misplaced

mob justice is a social expression of weariness
at the failure of government and state to ensure
the safety of the population. Mexicans are tired
of being abused, assaulted, kidnapped, killed,
or disappeared by criminal gangs acting with the
collusion of authorities. Since former President
Felipe Caldern declared war on the cartels nine
years ago, 160,000 people have been killed and
26,000 have gone missing, and the toll is rising
under President Enrique Pea Nietodespite
his pledge to halt it. What happened in Ajalpan
could be repeated anywhere in the country.
Noted
QIn 2001, just 4.1 percent
of adults admitted using
marijuana, but by 2013a
year after Washington and
Colorado became the first
two states to legalize the
drug for recreational use
that figure had increased to
9.5 percent.
WashingtonPost.com
QThe Islamic State of Iraq

and Syria earns about
$50million a month in
oil sales, despite U.S.-led
airstrikes designed to shut
down ISIS-held oil fields.
The extremist group extracts about 50,000 barrels
per day from wells in Syria
and Iraqselling the oil to
smugglers for a discount,
in some cases for as little
as $10 a barrel.
Associated Press
QSo far this year, only

January and April havent
broken global monthly
temperaturerecords,accordingto
theNational Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration. All seven of the other
previous months were
the hottest since records
began in 1880paving
the way for 2015 to be the
hottest documented year
on Earth.
Vox.com
QNotoriously press-shy
Spanish fashion mogul
Amancio Ortega briefly
surpassed Bill Gates as
the worlds richest man
for a few hours last week.
Ortegas net worth hit
$80billion as shares of Inditex, his holding company
overseeing fast-fashion
brands like Zara and Pull &
Bear, reached an all-time
high, before slipping.
Forbes.com
QSince 2007, there have

been at least 29 mass
shootings in the U.S.
committed by someone
legally permitted to carry a
concealed weapon.
WashingtonPost.com
Talking points
2016: Does Trump have staying power?
even has Carson leading
He was supposed to be
nationally. For Trump,
a blip in the 2016 race,
that spells trouble. The
said M.J. Lee in CNN
billionaires candidacy
.com, at most a summer
has been predicated on
fling for voters looking
the idea that he is winfor entertainment. But
ning. But if he opens
now fall is here, and
2016 with a primary
Donald Trump has passed
loss to Carson in Iowa,
100 days as Republican
his winning bluster
front-runner in the majorwill ring hollow in New
ity of pollstopping the
Hampshire and beyond.
latest ABC News survey
Not that Carsons rise
with 32 percent of the
Heading the GOP pack for more than 100 days
is any consolation to
national Republican vote.
Republicans, said Josh Marshall in TalkingPoints
Perhaps more strikingly, a huge 42 percent of
Memo.com. This deeply weird man, who
Republicans now expect the Donald to be the
GOP nominee. Time and again, Trump has defied believes gun control enabled the Holocaust and
the supposedly immutable laws of politics, said who likens abortion to slavery, would be just as
catastrophic as Trump for the GOP.
Eliana Johnson in NationalReview.com. Establishment Republicans never expected the real
Its time to see how much Trump really wants this,
estate mogul to actually run; when he didand
took an early leadthey assumed his gaffe-laden said Noah Rothman in CommentaryMagazine
.com. He can either ignore Carsons rise, and hope
speeches would ensure his downfall. Now, party
it goes away, or start plowing money into the
officials are starting to realize that Trump, once
early states. But does Trump really want to invest
dismissed as a joke, a carnival barker, and a cirmillions in a race that could ultimately see him
cus freak, might very well win the nomination.
finish as runner-up? Trump is at root a businessman. He recognizes diminishing returns when he
Not so fast, said Josh Voorhees in Slate.com.
sees them. Does he become a true politician, and
Former neurosurgeon Ben Carson has been quiabsorb those losses? Or does he pursue the stratetly surging in Iowa, where he leads Trump by
egy of a businessman and cut bait? Well have
14 points32 percent to 18 percentamong
our answer in the coming weeks.
likely GOP voters. One New York Times poll
Pope Francis: Showdown at the Vatican

Threats of a schism. False rumors that Pope Francis has a brain tumor. Bishops accusing each other
of doing the devils work. The Roman Catholic
Church has just endured a three-week theological
slugfest, said Anthony Faiola in The Washington
Post. The setting was the most closely watched
Vatican summit, or synod, in decades, where 270
bishops from 122 countries discussed the popes
vision of creating a more inclusive church. Liberal bishops said the church should do more to
accommodate gays and the divorced; conservatives
warned that doing so would undermine Catholic
dogma. In the end, both sides claimed victory,
said Elisabetta Povoledo in The New York Times.
The synods deliberately uncontroversial final
documenta set of recommendations for Francis
endorsed by at least two-thirds of the bishops
ruled out any acceptance of gay marriage. But
on the question of whether divorced Catholics
who remarried without an annulment should be
allowed to receive communion, it suggested local
clergy make decisions on a case-by-case basis.
If anyone won, it was conservatives, said Ross
Douthat in NYTimes.com. Francis is desperate
for the church to adopt his liberal ways, but his
episcopal cheerleaders lacked the votes to endorse
concrete change. Ultimately, theres a huge difference between a document that can be interpreted
as a permission slip for liberal bishops and one
that, from a conservative perspective, actively
teaches error. Alas, the bishops compromise
on communion will almost certainly deepen the
churchs divide, said Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry in
TheWeek.com. Allowing national and regional
clerics to take divergent approaches on such a
key question might embolden liberal bishops to
go one step furtherblessing same-sex unions,
for instance, or saying abortion is OK. Moreconservative bishops would then condemn their
liberal peers, andvoila!another schism.
The ball is now in Francis court, said Andrew
Brown in TheGuardian.com. The pope clearly
hoped free and honest discussions would swing
opinion toward his preferred course. But three
decades of conservatism in the Vatican, under
John Paul II and Benedict XVI, wont be easy to
undo. While Francis is unlikely to impose a solution on church conservativesas is his righthe
has at least demonstrated that disagreement
on these matters is possible. Moreover, he has
encouraged Catholics to think for themselves.
God knows where that could end.
AP, Corbis
20 NEWS
Talking points
Bacon: The threat on your breakfast plate
amount of exposure can
Perhaps no two words together are
increase a persons risk
more likely to set the
of at least one type
internet aflame than
of cancer. In the
bacon and cancer,
case of cigarettes,
said Sarah Zhang in
regular smoking
Wired.com. So its unsurraises your risk of lung
prising that yelps of devascancer by 2,500 percent, and
tation and disbelief were heard
causes about 1 million cancer deaths
across the planet this week when
a year. But only 34,000 annual deaths
the World Health Organization
worldwide are attributable to diets high in
classified the processed meat,
processed meat, and if you
along with hot dogs, as a
Delicious but potentially deadly
eat a couple of pieces of
group 1 carcinogenthe same
bacon a day, your already small 4.5 percent lifehigh-risk cancer category as cigarettes, asbestos,
time risk of colorectal cancer will be raised to just
and plutonium. Just 1.8 ounces of bacon daily
5.3 percent. Munching on the occasional bacon
the equivalent of two stripsraises a persons
strip simply isnt that dangerous.
risk of colorectal cancer by 18 percent, warned
the WHO. Sadly, bacon and hot dogs arent the
only meats that have been fingered, said Maura That doesnt mean we cant be more careful, said
Kevin Loria in BusinessInsider.com. Carnivores
Judkis in WashingtonPost.com. A whole range
could lower their cancer risk factor by no longer
of salted, cured, and smoked meats have also
charring their bacon to near cremationanother
earned the high-risk classificationmost probprocess that introduces harmful nitrates into a
ably because the nitrates used as preservatives
meal. Or they could abide by food writer Michael
can form carcinogenic compounds in the body.
Pollans timeless piece of advice: Eat food. Not
So auf Wiedersehen, bratwurst. Pastrami, we
too much. Mostly plants. Count me out, said
hardly knew ye.
Phil Rosenthal in the Chicago Tribune. Some
of us are true Americans, and were standing
Relax, bacon lovers, said Brad Plumer in Vox
strong. You can have our bacon and Italian sau.com. Processed meats may be in the same catsages when you pry them from our greasy dead
egory as cigarettes, but theyre not equally danhandswhich may be no more than a decade or
gerous. All it means is that, for each of these
substances, theres compelling evidence that some two from now, if this report is right.
Paul Ryan: A family time hypocrite?
Corbis
Rep. Paul Ryan issued a remarkably progressive

ultimatum last week, said Elizabeth Bruenig in
The New Republic. The Wisconsin Republican,
who is father to three school-age children, said
that he would run for House speaker only if the
job didnt interfere with his time at home. This
is a job where you are expected to be on the road
about 100 days a year, Ryan said. I cannot and
will not give up my family time. Its admirable,
of course, for Ryan to try to protect his work-life
balance. If only his policies were as enlightened as
his personal preferences. In Congress, Ryan has
shown little interest in the familial needs of workers, said Rex Huppke in the Chicago Tribune.
He has repeatedly voted against parental leave for
federal employees, and joined the GOP in blocking
bills that would mandate paid maternity and paid
sick leave. The budget he presented in 2014 would
have cut billions of dollars in federal child-care
subsidies for low-income families. I dont begrudge
Ryan considering family time a priority, but I do
when he deems it essential only for himself.
Liberals are so scared of a Speaker Ryan that
theyve resorted to their failed war-on-women
messaging, said Joy Pullman in TheFederalist
.com. They want to brand him as a hypocrite for
opposing mandatory maternity leave yet wanting to be home for dinner with his wife and kids.
Wheres the contradiction exactly? Ryan believes
in family timehe offers paid leave to his own
staff on Capitol Hill. What he does not support is forcing everyone else into the exact same
employee compensation practices he carries out.
Say what you will about Ryans politics, but at
least he wants to be an active dad, said Mattie
Kahn in Elle.com. He clearly has political ambitions beyond the speakers office but has decided
it poses no threat to his hopes and dreams to say
he wants to be home more. Hes made it OK to
talk about fatherhood in the workplace, and how
to squeeze the most out of our hectic lives.
NEWS 21
Wit &
Wisdom
Every creative act is a sudden cessation of stupidity.
Polaroid co-founder
Edwin H. Land, quoted in
The Boston Globe
Life starts out with

everyone clapping when
you take a poo and goes
downhill from there.
Essayist Sloane Crosley,
quoted in The New York Times
A man doesnt know what

happiness is until hes married. By then its too late.
Frank Sinatra, quoted in
The Daily Telegraph (U.K.)
Criticism is easier to
take when you realize that
the only people who arent
criticized are those who
dont take risks.
Donald Trump,
quoted in Townhall.com
The reason people

become funny is to
overcome pain.
Sarah Silverman,
quoted in Time
Most people go
through life without ever
discovering the existence of that whole field
of endeavor which we
describe as second wind.
Publisher Katharine Graham,
quoted in HuffingtonPost.com
Better to be busy than to

be busy worrying.
Angela Lansbury, quoted in the
International Business Times
Poll watch
Q72% of Americans believe
the Republican-led congressional committee investigating the 2012 Benghazi attack
is using the investigation
for political gain, including
85% of Democrats, 75% of
independents, and 49% of
Republicans.
CNN/ORC
Ryan isnt a hypocrite, said Jim Tankersley in

WashingtonPost.com. Hes just taking advantage
of his significant negotiating power. Republicans
prefer to allow the free market to decide which
workers get certain benefits, like flexibility and
job security. And Ryan has bargained from a position of strength, leveraging unique skills that his
employerin this case, a House GOP terrified of
descending into anarchydesperately needs. If
anything, his position is entirely consistent with
his partys way of thinking.
Q35% of Americans think

that mass shootings are
just a fact of life in America
today, while 48% believe
such gun rampages can be
stopped. 35% percent believe that stricter gun laws
would reduce shootings
of all kinds; 35% think such
laws would have no impact.
YouGov
Technology
22 NEWS
Companies: Yahoos stalled turnaround

Yahoos product lineupwhich includes email,
Three years after taking over as CEO of Yahoo,
search, social media, news, and even fantasy
Marissa Mayer is still searching for a viable turnsportsis like a buffet, said Richard Nieva in
around plan, said Vindu Goel in The New York
CNET.com. Its got a little bit of everything,
Times. Yahoos third-quarter revenue and profits
but no main dish. When the company unveils
fell well short of analysts expectations last week,
its nimbler strategy, I wont be surprised if some
touching off another round of speculation about
popular products disappear. But a few trims here
the companysand Mayersfuture. In a call
and there wont do it; Yahoo needs a classic
with investors, Mayer admitted Yahoo lost tens of
reset. Trouble is, Mayer is exceedingly vague
millions of dollars on its heavily hyped investabout how exactly thats going to happen, said
ment in original video content, including an online
Shira Ovide in BloombergView.com. Luckily, the
revival of the canceled NBC comedy Community,
deal with Google, combined with a similar deal
and revealed she has cut a deal with Google to
with Microsoft Bing, buys her some time and
power some of Yahoos advertising and search
results. Under pressure from investors, Mayer said Mayer: Trying to extend the clock revenue to keep tinkering.
Yahoo is now working on a plan to narrow its strategy, promMayer should take a page from AOL CEO Tim Armstrongs
ising more details within the next three months.
playbook, said The Economist. Armstrong also took over an
Internet behemoth that had fallen on hard times. But he was
Saving Yahoo was always going to be a stretch, said Erin
Griffith in Fortune.com. When Mayer arrived in 2012, the com- bolder in investing in growth areas, such as targeted advertising and video technology. The result: In June, Verizon bought
pany had just cycled through several CEOs and was stagnating
AOL for a hefty $4.4 billion. Its possible Yahoos problems
after years of uncertainty. She deployed a kitchen-sink strategy
are bigger than any leader can fix, said Mark Garrison in
of trying anything and everything, spending billions to acquire
Marketplace.org. Much of the companys value comes from its
dozens of startups and luring high-profile stars like TV anchor
$27 billion investment in the giant Chinese e-commerce comKatie Couric and tech journalist David Pogue to build original
content. But even though 1 billion people surf to Yahoo websites pany Alibaba, which Yahoo plans to spin off as a separate company. Once that happens, investors focus will be squarely on
and apps every month, the company still hasnt figured out a
Yahoos fundamentals. As Mayer surely knows, thats when the
way to make money. Now Mayer is preaching the gospel of
pressure for a turnaround gets even tougher.
focus and discipline.
The Vivi headset, designed

to instantly
provide a
patients vitals
to surgeons
during operations, is a far cry from many of
the slickly designed wearables you
see today, said Adrian Covert in
FastCompany.com. The small plastic
device, notable for its simplicity, clips
onto the headbands and glasses
many surgeons already wear in the
operating theater, and can be swiveled out of the way when its not
needed. Vivi is designed to deliver
nothing but the most crucial information, like breathing and heart
rates, communicated via a Bluetooth
connection with the ORs medical
equipment. San Franciscobased
design firm Method initially considered using Google Glass for Vivi,
but the designers quickly realized
it wasnt practical to shoehorn
their operating-room technology
into a product built for general use.
Method expects the soon-to-bereleased device to be cheaper than
other head-mounted displays.
Bytes: Whats new in tech

23andMe resumes tests
Genetic-testing company 23andMe once
again will provide customers with health data
after winning FDA approval, said Andrew
Pollack in The New York Times. The biotech startup became a Silicon Valley sensation when it launched in 2006 by offering
consumers insights into their ancestry and
potential future health risks through affordable DNA saliva tests. But it hit a snag in
2013 when the FDA barred it from providing
health information without demonstrating
that its results were accurate. The company
will now offer a scaled-down health test,
showing the risk of passing certain inherited
diseases to ones children. Its also raising the
services price from $99 to $199.
Ad-free YouTube, for a price

YouTube is taking another step further away
from its cat-video roots, said Victor Luckerson in Time.com. The Google-owned companys newly launched subscription service
dubbed YouTube Redoffers ad-free versions
of YouTube videos as well as music streaming
and exclusive content from the sites most popular video makers, such as video game player
PewDiePie and comedians the Fine Brothers.
YouTube Red costs $9.99 per month, similar
to other streaming services such as Netflix,

Amazon Prime Instant Video, and Hulu. While
YouTube is an advertising behemoth, pulling in $4 billion in revenue in 2014, reports
say the site still isnt profitable. A subscription service might finally put it in the black. It
could also line the pockets of YouTube stars;
YouTube says the vast majority of subscription payments will be shared with creators.
Amazon sues fake reviewers

Amazon is going on the offensive against
fake reviews, said Jason Abbruzzese in
Mashable.com. The e-commerce giant has filed
a lawsuit against more than 1,000 people who
allegedly offered to write five-star reviews of
products for pay. The reviewers were listed
on Fiverr.com, an online marketplace where
users can offer their services doing everything
from graphic design to copywriting, often for
as little as $5. Amazon didnt include Fiverr in
the suit, opting instead to go after the reviewers. The retailer has been working to improve
the quality of its reviews, revamping its system
to more heavily weight the reviews of customers who actually bought the product in question on Amazon. In April, the company filed a
similar lawsuit against a group of websites that
were charging for positive Amazon reviews.
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Innovation of the week
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Cutting back on mammograms

In a major shift, the American Cancer
Society (ACS) is advising most women
to begin having mammograms at age 45
instead of 40. The controversial new guidelines, for women of average risk for
breast cancer, are based on evidence from
dozens of studies showing that aggressive screening starting at age 40when
such cancers rarely occurleads to many
false positives and unnecessary biopsies,
and does not produce a large statistical
decrease in deaths from the disease. The
ACS also recommends that women forgo
manual breast exams performed by doctors, since there is little evidence they pro-
People with prostheses could soon feel again.
Prosthetics with a sense of touch

Prosthetic limbs that will enable amputees
to regain a sense of touch are a step closer.
Scientists inspired by Luke Skywalkers
prosthetic hand in the Star Wars films have
developed thin, flexible artificial skin that
can feel pressure and send those signals
to brain cells, CBSNews.com reports. The
skin has two layers: one that contains
carbon nanotubes that conduct electricity
under pressure, and another that receives
these electrical impulses and translates them
into messages nerve cells can understand.
The technology has been successfully tested
on mice, but use of this skin among people
with prosthetic limbs is still three to six
years away, scientists estimate. We see
it being able to stimulate nerves that are
left over after the limb amputation, says
Alex Chortos, a researcher at Stanford
University. Those signals will go to the
brain. Scientists say the next step is to
develop sensors that can detect temperatures, textures, and other sensations.
Corbis, Bao Labs, Corbis
Life on early Earth

In the first 700 million years after the
Earths formation, scientists have long
believed, our planet was a hellish realm
devoid of lifewith asteroids raining
down on a landscape riddled with volcanoes, molten rock, and poisonous gases.
vide any benefit. Finally, the ACS says that

women older than 54 should have a mammogram every other year instead of annually, because breast tumors grow more
slowly after menopause. It all adds up to
a major departure from the groups longstanding aggressive approach to breast
cancer screening. We moved away from a
one-size-fits-all approach to something that
is more personalized, the guidelines lead
author, Dr. Kevin Oeffinger, tells the Los
Angeles Times. Other health groups were
critical of the ACSs recommendations,
saying screening saves lives. The cutback
on screening is falsely reassuring, said
But new research suggests that life may

have taken root in the Earths turbulent
youth300 million years earlier than previously suspected, reports HuffingtonPost
.com. Our planet formed roughly 4.5 billion years ago, and was heavily volcanic for
eons as it slowly cooled. The earliest fossil
records date to about 3.8 billion years
ago, when single-celled creatures began
to appear. But by studying tiny crystals
that form in magma, called zircons, geochemists at the University of California at
Los Angeles found microscopic flecks of
pure carbon with a signature indicating it
had been left behind by living organisms
4.1 billion years ago. Life on Earth may
have started almost instantaneously, says
study co-author Mark Harrison. With the
right ingredients, life seems to form very
quickly. He said the study suggests that
simple life-forms may be quite common
throughout the universe.
The plastic in your fish

Scientists have
long suspected
that
waste
dumped into
the ocean would
ultimately find its way
into the seafood that ends up on dinner
tables. A new study provides evidence that
this is more than just a theory, reports
PopularScience.com. After analyzing
fish caught off the coasts of California
and Indonesia and sold in local markets,
researchers found 25 percent contained
man-made debris. All of the fragments
found in Indonesian fish were plastic, while
textile fibers accounted for 80 percent of
the debris found in fish from California.
The studys authors say this difference
reflects the waste management strategies
in each region. Indonesia often dumps
Aggressive screening can lead to false positives.
Dr. Marisa C. Weiss, the founder and president of BreastCancer.org. We are worried
about the message and confusion to the
public. Every year, about 200,000 women
in the U.S. are diagnosed with breast cancer and about 40,000 die from the disease.
garbage directly onto beaches and into rivers. The United States has more advanced
waste-processing systems, including plastic recycling, but effluent from washing
machines sent to wastewater treatment
plants is laden with synthetic fibers. In each
case, the waste is becoming part of marine
habitats. This is a wake-up call, says the
studys author, Chelsea Rochman, warning
that waste dumped into oceans might be
coming back to haunt us through the food
chain. So far, researchers have found plastic and fiber in the fishes guts, not their
flesh. But they noted that further research
is needed.
Health scare of the week

Supplements arent risk-free
More than half of Americans report taking
some type of dietary supplement, but these
loosely regulated products are responsible
for about 23,000 trips to the emergency
room in the U.S. every year, new research
has found. After analyzing 10 years of data
from 63 hospitals, scientists from the U.S.
Food and Drug Administration and the
Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention found that
herbal supplements were sending a steady stream of users
to the hospital suffering from
chest pain, palpitations, dizziness, nausea,
and other symptoms. The biggest offenders were supplements that purportedly
cause weight loss, build muscles, increase
energy, or boost sex drive and that are
often laced with stimulants. Most of the
patients treated were adults between 20
and 34 years old, but nearly 22 percent of
the emergency room visits involved young
children who accidentally took adult supplements. Something thats natural is not
necessarily safe, Curtis Haas, director of
pharmacy for the University of Rochester
Medical Center, tells Reuters.com. These
products do not come without risk.
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maps the contagions spread across

25 communities, she never simplifies
the dynamics. Instead, she presents the
main actors in all their poignant, if
infuriating, humanity.
Book of the week

The Witches: Salem, 1692
by Stacy Schiff
(Little, Brown, $32)
Clearly, the executioners quickly

In the Salem, Mass., of 1692, one
became ashamed of their actions,
moment children were playacting;
said Ruth Franklin in Harpers. The
the next, peoples grandparents
Puritans left piles of diaries and letwere being publicly tortured to
ters behind, but what most of them
death, said Adam Goodheart in
wrote in 1692 seems to have disapThe Atlantic. Stacy Schiffs engrosspeared. Schiff works brilliantly with
The hanging of an ex-minister, in a modern dramatization
ing new account of the hysteria that
the materials she has, though, and she
Not that the crisis should be interpreted as
overtook the village achieves wizardry
never lacks for an apt detail as she paints
merely an adolescent prank gone awry,
of a sort itself, making wonderfully visa picture of 17th-century New England as
ible the distant world in which the famous said Peter Manseau in Bookforum. Among
a hardscrabble land where the Devil was so
the Puritans of Massachusetts, belief in
witch hunt unfolded. The entire affair
omnipresent that a servant could credibly
witchcraft predated this particular uproar,
began when two girls started complaining
confess to entering into a pact with him in
and rearing children was such a fraught
about being pinched or bitten by invisible
order to obtain his help with her chores.
agents. Within nine months, 19 women and undertaking that parents were primed to
Though Schiffs narrative slows when the
believe that the Devil might want to take
men accused of sorcery had been hanged
trials begin, she regains her stride in the
them. Death by accident and disease was so books conclusion, said Hamilton Cain in
and one elderly farmer pressed to death
common, Schiff writes, that a mother and
with large stones. Schiff, a Pulitzer Prize
the Minneapolis Star Tribune. Nimbly
winner, keeps our focus on the several girls father could expect to lose two or three of
invoking McCarthyism and todays movetheir young offspring. In this case, the girls
whose accusations fueled the whole frenzy,
ment conservatism, she reminds us that the
who began barking, shaking, and fainting
though. Her retelling reads most combiggest mystery about 1692 Salem is why
eventually started naming adult sorcerers
pellingly as a kind of true-life version of
America remains so susceptible to similar
as the source of their affliction. As Schiff
young-adult fiction.
infections today.
Novel of the week

The Clasp
by Sloane Crosley
Alamy
(Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $26)
Its not every day that a light caper also

manages to be a shrewd exploration
of the modern-day late-quarter-life
crisis, said Julia Pierpont in The New
York Times. Loosely based on a Guy
de Maupassant short story, this debut
novel from acclaimed humorist Sloane
Crosley opens at a wedding that reunites three former college friends now
circling 30: Victor, whos still in love
with Kezia, who has a crush on Nathaniel. A chance mention of a precious
necklace lost in France during World
War II soon inspires Victor to take off
to find itwith Kezia and Nathaniel in
hot pursuit. Crosley squeezes in plenty
of snappy lines, said Heller McAlpin
in NPR.org. Asking a single woman if
she wants kids, Kezia muses, is like
asking a one-armed man if hed like to
play tennis. But the storys pacing is
uneven, and the various plot components require obvious effort to snap
into place. Though Crosley is capable
of producing a smart, sassy romp,
her first try doesnt sparkle quite as
dazzlingly as wed hoped.
Unfaithful Music &

Disappearing Ink
by Elvis Costello (Blue Rider, $30)
Elvis Costellos
beautifully written new memoir is
not just for fans,
said Geoff Edgers
in The Washington
Post. Its longat
674 pages. But
Costello knows
how to relate an
anecdote, and as he
recounts his journey
from Beatles-loving
British schoolboy
to New Wave hell-raiser to 61-year-old
polymath pop collaborator, the adventure
he unfolds stretches across generations,
geography, and a century of popular song.
Costello, born Declan MacManus, doesnt
shy from discussing early controversies,
including the barroom scuffle in which
he referred to Ray Charles using a racial
slur. (Never mind excuses, there are no
excuses, he writes.) More important than
his candor, though, are his perceptive powers. Luckily, we get the artist when hes old
enough to have perspective but still young
enough to remember every detail.
Still, this is an often frustrating scrapbook of an autobiography, said Gregg

LaGambina in AVClub.com. It contains
more characters than a Dickens novel,
minus the discipline of a driving narrative.
Sure, those characters include fascinating
figures, including Burt Bacharach, George
Jones, Questlove, and a parade of other
musical giants. Still, Costello might have
been better off focusing on the most important musical influence in his life: his father,
a big-band singer and trumpeter, who
changed his sons life when he began bringing home records like the Beatles breakthrough, Please Please Me.
The book is a commitment, for sure, said
Dwight Garner in The New York Times.
Costello writes as if he cant help trying to
cram everything in, and Unfaithful Music
sometimes seems lashed together with bungee cords. Still, dark gems twinkle here
in abundance, like the passage in which he
recalls writing his seminal ballad Alison
and using his own imperfect voice to record
it: I knew that Id never create a beautiful
sound, he writes, as I was very obviously
a mere mortal. Mortal, yes. But hes given
us a remarkable book. Its streaked with
some of the best writingfunny, strange,
spiteful, anguishedweve ever had from an
important musician.
Author of the week

Neil Strauss
Youve got to admire Neil
Strauss chutzpah, said Mike
Sacks in GQ. In his latest
book, The Truth, the 46-yearold former rock journalist
recounts how his professional training in the art of
picking up women landed
him at rock
bottom. Five
years after
publishing
The Game,
a 2005 book
that taught
fellow losers
how to score
and sold 2.5 million copies,
Strauss had finally met a
woman he loveda model,
of coursebut wound up
cheating on her with her best
friend. I thought I was a nice
guy. I really did, he says.
And I thought, How can I
break the heart of somebody
who loves me? Admitting
he might be a sex addict, he
checked into therapy and
came out wiser. But not so
wise that he didnt give over
the next chapter of his life to
orgies, free lovecommunity
living, and setting up a polygamous household with three
beautiful women.
Strauss insists he wasnt just
hunting for new book material, says Lizzie Crocker in
TheDailyBeast.com. I really
wanted to find a better way
to live and be free, he says.
But I realized that being free
and unattached is a trap. Its
like being a bird that cant
land. Its exhausting. The
Truth is thus less about how
a master of the Game lived
an adolescent fantasy than
about how he learned to
embrace monogamy. Two
years ago, Strauss married
the woman hed cheated
on, and today they have a
8-month-old baby. He realizes that the flaw in The
Game was that it advocated
manipulating other people.
The goal now is to be OK
with yourself, he says.
Maybe once youre OK with
yourself, you can see people
as they are.
The Book List

Best books...chosen by David Mitchell
David Mitchells new novel, Slade House, is a haunted-house story for a new century. Below, the best-selling author of Cloud Atlas and The Bone Clocks names his
favorite ghost stories.
The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
(Dover, $3). A perfectly crafted novella by one
of literatures all-time master stylists. A young
governess arrives at an English estate and begins
seeing ghosts. Or is she just having the mother of
all nervous breakdowns? James feeds the reader
twisted suspicions but not straight answers. By
refusing to satisfy, he satisfies.
Strangers by Taichi Yamada (out of print). Like

every ghost story, Strangers is also a detective
story, whose core mysteries are the questions
Who are the ghosts? What do they want?
and Can I get out of here alive? After encountering the ghosts of his parents, Hideo Harada
starts aging at an unnatural speed. Are the parents sucking the life out of him?
The Shining by Stephen King (Anchor, $8). If

you think you know Kings The Shining because
youve seen Stanley Kubricks famous adaptation,
youre not wrong but youre also not right. Jack
Torrance takes a job as the off-season caretaker
of the snowbound Overlook Hotel, which is
most definitely sentient and evil. Kings prose is
matter-of-fact, and the pacing is perfect, all the
way through the exquisite, grueling crescendo.
The House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski

(Pantheon, $21). This one-of-a-kind novel messes
with your head and may well invade your dream
life. The interior of the eponymous house begins
to grow by rumbling increments, sprouting hallways, anterooms, and an unmappable subterranean labyrinth. The protagonist recruits explorers
to investigate, and as you can imagine, these
excursions do not lead to a happy ending.
The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson

(Penguin, $16). A paranormal investigator rents
a country manor with an 80-year history of
murder and suicide, hoping to prove the validity
of his field of endeavor. This strange, rewarding
1959 novel by a strange, gifted novelist both
belongs to and transcends its era.
Sugar Hall by Tiffany Murray (Seren, $26).

Murrays latest novel, set in crumbling postwar
England, brings a 21st-century sensibility to a
haunted Victorian house. Sugar Hall is host to
themes of slavery, migration, exploitation, and
historys habit of updating its uglier productions
with new actors and costumes.
Also of interest...in new perspectives on booze

Drinking in America
Tangled Vines
by Susan Cheever (Twelve, $28)
by Frances Dinkelspiel (St. Martins, $27)
Susan Cheevers cockeyed retelling

of the American story is packed with
shocking and often delightful revelations, said Linda Winer in Newsday.
The Mayflower, she tells us, landed at
Plymouth because it was running low
on beer. And when Paul Revere made his famous
ride, he turned to rum to get up his courage. But
good as Cheevers anecdotes are, her tone is dry
and sober. When this former drinker makes the
case that booze has been a silent partner in shaping our nation, shes not aiming to be funny.
Who knew that California wine

country had such a bloody past? said
Esther Mobley in the San Francisco
Chronicle. In this nonfiction pageturner, journalist Frances Dinkelspiel
uses a 2005 arson fire at a wine warehouse as a window on the turmoil winemakers
have had to endure since the state was a lawless
frontier. Floods, earthquakesa few too many
tales fight for attention here. Still, Tangled Vines
does convey a sense of wonder about winea
sense that maybe its worth all this trouble.
The Comic Book Story of Beer

by Jonathan Hennessey and Mike Smith
The Essential Scratch & Sniff Guide to

Becoming a Whiskey Know-It-All
(Ten Speed, $19)
by Richard Betts (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $22)
The tale related in this short, endlessly entertaining book is nothing

less than the history of human civilization, said Richard Pachter in The
Miami Herald. On its opening page, a
man goes shopping for a six-pack, and
the choices that confront him trigger a deep dive
back to the advent of agriculture and beers role
in ending humanitys nomadic ways. The whole
account is assiduously researchedand ably
illustrated by Aaron McConnell.
Master sommelier Richard Betts

is trying to teach readers to follow their noses, said Ben Paynter
in FastCompany.com. Building on
the success of his 2013 scratchand-sniff guide to wine, Betts has
turned his attention to whiskey,
with impressive results. The new book winks
constantly at the highfalutin subject its supposed
to be covering. It also provides a lot of useful,
practical information.
Paul Stuart, Rickett & Sones
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Review of reviews: Art & Stage
Exhibit of the week
show architect Buckminster Fuller

on campus building his first successful geodesic dome. Performances of
Cages Theater Piece No. 1 illuminate how eager the campus residents
were to merge music, theater, painting, and dance.
Leap Before You Look: Black

Mountain College 19331957
Institute of Contemporary Art,
Boston, through Jan. 24
During the 24 short years that it

operated, Black Mountain College
was a kind of midcentury cultural
Camelot, said Carol Kino in The
Wall Street Journal. The tiny North
Carolina liberal arts school, founded
in 1933 by a maverick classics professor, put art at the center of the student
experience and wound up producing
a whos who of postwar American
culture. Choreographer Merce
Cunningham founded his pioneering dance troupe at Black Mountain.
John Cage staged his first Happening
there. Willem de Kooning and Robert
Motherwell taught painting; Cy Twombly
and Robert Rauschenberg were classmates.
Because the schools first hires included two
refugees from Germanys just-shuttered
Bauhaus school, Black Mountain became a
place where the avant-garde of Europe and
the United States came together and created
something new.
Its pretty mind-blowing to consider
how many major cultural figures passed
through Black Mountain, said Andrea
Shea in WBUR.org. In Leap Before You
In doing so, the school helped spur

a crucial pivot from the modern to
the contemporary, said Michael
Andor Brodeur in The Boston Globe.
Besides favoring multimedia collaboration, artists trained at Black
Mountainincluding poets like
Robert Creeley and Charles Olson
exhibited an abiding interest in the
moment a sound, a movement, or a
mark on a page tips from meaningless
Dancers help revive the spirit of a singular school.
to meaningful. Gone was the desire to
create singular works of art, replaced
Look, the first exhibition designed to tell
by an interest in art as a process in dialogue
the schools story, the first galleries feature
with competing communal interests, said
the abstract textiles of Anni Albers and the
Sebastian Smee, also in the Globe. Black
teaching aids developed by her husband,
Mountain ran out of money and closed in
the painter, designer, and former Bauhaus
1957, but its massive impact on postwar
professor Josef Albers. The Bauhaus focus
aesthetics make this show a landmark
on fundamentalscolor, materials, and
event. It presents breakthrough works by
natural formscombined with the learning de Kooning, Twombly, and Rauschenberg,
by doing philosophy of American educaplus a masterpiece by sculptor Ruth
tor John Dewey to create Black Mountains
Asawa. But this is one of those rare great
unique spirit. At its peak, the school was
shows thats less about masterpieces than
like a laboratory where everyone was exper- about a storythe coming-into-being of a
imenting. Photographs in the exhibition
new relationship between art and its public.
Hopscotch
The Industry, Los Angeles, Oct. 31Nov. 15
step into an arriving limo, please take a

deep breath: You will discern that youre
glimpsing scattered moments in the life of
Lucha, a Latina puppeteer played by 19 different aria-singing performers in yellow. But
you cant know everything.
A musical trio in a symphony on wheels
Its no wonder that Los Angeles first

mobile opera required two years of
planning, said Zachary Pincus-Roth in LA
Weekly. Hopscotch, a 36-chapter drama
that opens on Halloween, will unfold in
two dozen moving limousines plus a variety
of public spaces. No viewer will see the
performance in its entirety in person, but
ticket buyers will each catch eight chapters
as theyre ushered from car to car, and
all the live segments will be streamed to a
single theater. A sense of disorientation is
inevitable. Once you order tickets, arrive
on time at an appointed intersection, and
The experience lulls participants into a fantastical trance-like state, said Jessica Gelt
in the Los Angeles Times. During a recent
preview performance, Lucha was sometimes
in a limo with us, accompanied by a guitarist; sometimes she was experiencing her
first kiss, beside a lake while saxophonists
played nearby. Onlookers became unwitting
side players, and when a microphone failed
in one car, the scene played as if Lucha and
her lover werent meant to be heard over a
passing siren. All the scenes we saw flow
together like poetry from the Greek myth of
Orpheus and his lost wife, Eurydicethe
story that inspired this $1 million adaptation. It feels like life, with all its attendant
sorrows, and youll be forgiven if you finish
one or another of the limo rides and suddenly feel like crying.
Heart of a Dog
A film playing in select theaters
Like a stone
skipped
across a
lake, the
new film by
artist Laurie
Anderson
leaves
Lolabelle at a piano
expanding
rings in its path, said Manohla Dargis in
The New York Times. A home movie of
a sort, it focuses at first on the death of
the artists beloved rat terrier, Lolabelle.
But the 2013 death of her husband, rock
legend Lou Reed, plays like a shadow
on her musings as the 75-minute work
expands to become a dreamy, drifty,
and altogether lovely meditation on
loss and love. Its the kind of film that
attracts labels like experimental, said
Ella Taylor in NPR.org. But Heart of a
Dog accurately simulates the actual flow
of individual consciousness and weaves
even its most whimsical digressionsat
one point, Anderson imagines sewing
Lolabelle into her abdomeninto a bracing look at lifes big questions. Its often
heartbreaking but never long-faced.
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Review of reviews: Film

Our Brand
Is Crisis
Directed by
David Gordon Green
(R)
++++
A brash spin doctor takes
her act to a foreign land.
Nasty Baby
Directed by Sebastin Silva
(R)
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A gay couple tries to help a
friend get pregnant.
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of an edge, said Benjamin Lee

Sandra Bullock plays a whirlin The Guardian (U.K.). Bodine
wind named Calamity Jane
learns soon enough that her
Bodine in her new comedy,
nemesis is running the campaign
and the character easily rates
of the races leading candidate,
as one of the best female roles
but the back-and-forth between
of the last 10 years said Peter
Bullock and co-star Billy Bob
Debruge in Variety. Though the
Thornton isnt quite as smart
film itself is something more
and screwball as it could be.
of a mess, Bullocks Bodine is
Worse, the screenplay fails to
fabulously intimidatinga
Bullock: A new American invasion
mine the satirical potential in
smart, jittery, cynical American
having the fate of Bolivia determined by two egopolitical consultant who has only selfish reasons
tistical Yanks. Still, Bullock proves unnervingly
when she takes over the campaign of an unpopular
exBolivian president whos seeking to regain office. good at pitching Janes prowess somewhere between
sharp insight and outright insanity, said Richard
For a viewer, its fun just knowing that Bullocks
Lawson in VanityFair.com. This is a frequency she
shark-like operative was originally written for
should work in more.
George Clooney. Unfortunately, the film is in need
sainthood any of us are. To me,
If the new Kristen Wiig comthe sudden late shift into thriller
edy is as sloppy as life, so be
territory feels unearned, said
it, said Amy Nicholson in LA
Mike DAngelo in AVClub.com.
Weekly. Its Chilean director,
Its just a Hail Mary attempt
Sebastin Silva, temporarily
to prevent a loose, meandering
fools us into thinking were
comedy from flatlining, and
watching a virtuous dramedy
its odor of desperation taints
about an unconventional family:
everything that precedes it.
Wiig plays a single Brooklynite
That tainting is intentional,
who is trying to conceive by
Adebimpe and Wiig get cozy.
though, and reveals the aimless
artificial insemination and, when
opening to be part of a carefully constructed narher gay best friend (Silva) proves physically unable,
rative machine, said A.O. Scott in The New York
asks his reluctant black lover (Tunde Adebimpe) to
Times. By the end, the tickle of comedy is replaced
be the semen donor. But eventually Silva subverts
by the barb of satire, and the audiences smile of recthe setup of his own script to get at shaggier,
ognition is replaced by a grimace of complicity.
messier truthslike how undeserving of modern
Rock the
Kasbah
or a passporthe bonds with

Sexist, racist, overlong, dull,
a mercenary and a hooker
visually ugly, and worst of all,
before pouring his energy into
unfunny, the latest Bill Murray
landing a young female singer
Directed by Barry Levinson comedy fails on every front,
on Afghan Star, the countrys
said
Michael
OSullivan
in
The
(R)
version of American Idol. As
Washington Post. It couldnt
++++
Richies discovery, a lovely
have been easy for Rain Man
and fierce Leem Lubany gets
Bill Murray stumbles into a director Barry Levinson to
little to do beyond singing Cat
squander the talents of Murray,
quagmire in Afghanistan.
Zooey Deschanel, Kate Hudson, Lubany and Murray in a comedy desert Stevens songs, and Murrays signature laid-back riffing cant lift
and Bruce Willis, but all thats
Levinsons oil spill of a story, said Joe Neumaier
left at the end of this flameout of a movie is a heap
in Time. Rock the Kasbah manages to add insult
of smoldering ash. Murray stars as a sad-sack
to the injuries that Americas good intentions have
music promoter who by chance winds up accominflicted on Afghanistan since 2001, said Ty Burr in
panying his sole marketable client (Deschanel) on
The Boston Globe. If it were any worse, theyd be
a USO gig in Afghanistan. But when Murrays
screening it as evidence at The Hague.
Richie Lanz winds up strandedwithout money
Patti Perret, The Orchard, Kerry Brown
New on DVD and Blu-ray

The Gift
Southpaw
Dressed to Kill
(Universal, $30)
(Anchor Bay, $30)
(Criterion, $30)
A chance meeting with an old acquaintance

leads an L.A. couple into a snare in this
recent thriller, said the Chicago Sun-Times.
Rebecca Hall, Jason Bateman, and Joel
Edgerton all deliver first-rate performances in director Edgertons wonderfully warped take on long-range karma.
Youve no doubt seen boxing movies like

this one many times before, said the New
Orleans Times-Picayune. But Southpaw
has at least one thing its predecessors
dont: Jake Gyllenhaal, whos mesmerizing as a champion who loses it all and
chooses to fight back.
Brian de Palmas classic erotic thriller still

shocks 35 years later, said PopMatters
.com. Though sex and murder are givens
in the genre, here theyre pushed to such
absurd extremes that the viewer is left
completely off-balance, and this fine restoration highlights de Palmas visual artistry.
Movies on TV
Monday, Nov. 2
From Russia With Love
With Spectre looming,
revisit a James Bond classic, featuring Sean Connery
trying to recover a Soviet
encryption device stolen by
a sinister nemesis. (1963)
8p.m., Epix
Tuesday, Nov. 3
Stand by Me
Four preteen boys, including River Phoenix, head
down the local railroad
tracks on a life-altering
journey in this winning tearjerker based on a Stephen
King novella. (1986) 8p.m.,
Sundance
Wednesday, Nov. 4
Good Morning, Vietnam
Robin Williams was in his
element playing a motormouth Armed Forces Radio
DJ who broadcast daily
to U.S. troops fighting in
Southeast Asia. (1987)
8p.m., the Movie Channel
Thursday, Nov. 5
Grand Illusion
Director Jean Renoir drew
on his own experiences as a
prisoner of war in Germany
to create one of the masterpieces of French cinema.
(1937) 8 p.m., TCM
Friday, Nov. 6
Charade
Audrey Hepburn and Cary
Grant have real chemistry
in this thriller about a young
widow compelled to put her
trust in a charming stranger
who keeps changing his
story. (1963) 8 p.m., TCM
Saturday, Nov. 7
WarGames
A teenage hacker accidentally triggers a nuclear
standoff in this 1980s gem,
which features a young
Matthew Broderick and
some laughably large
desktop computers. (1983)
8p.m., Encore
Sunday, Nov. 8
Bernie
Jack Black stars in Richard
Linklaters quirky take on
a true story about a dogooder mortician suspected
of murdering an old lady.
(2011) 3 p.m., Showtime
Television
The Weeks guide to whats worth watching
Kareem: Minority of One
Theres no accounting for Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.
The 7-foot-2 Harlem native is the NBAs all-time
leading scorer, and he has as many championship titles as Michael Jordan. But he long ago
developed a reputation for surliness that has
dimmed his star power. Now 68, the former
Lew Alcindor reflects here on a remarkable life
in which the role of world-class athlete has not
always been a good fit with his outsize intellect
and impatience with social injustice. Tuesday,
Nov. 3, at 10 p.m., HBO
Nova: Making North America
The United States may be a young nation, but
the land it occupies has a history that dates
back 3 billion years. Kirk Johnson, head of the
Smithsonians natural history branch, hosts this
engrossing, three-part look at the layers beneath
our feet, revealing an inland sea that divided the
continent for 20 million years and Rockies-high
mountains where the skyscrapers of Manhattan
now stand. Begins Wednesday, Nov. 4, at 9 p.m.,
PBS; check local listings
Master of None
If Aziz Ansari is good at one thing, its making
Millennials laugh. Those who know Ansari
only as an overconfident bureaucrat on Parks
and Recreation might underestimate how much
range he brings as a standup performer to poking fun at his generation. That range is evident
in his new series, where he stars as a 30-year-old
actor paralyzed by both big and small choices.
Available for streaming Friday, Nov. 6, Netflix
Hozier: The Church Tapes
Take Jeff Buckleys tenor, mix in some of the
contemporary soul style of Adele or Sam Smith,
and you might get something approximating
the music of the young Irish crooner Hozier.
Last years Grammy-nominated Take Me
to Church introduced the then-24-year-old
singer-songwriter to the world. In this concert
film, recorded at St. James Church in Dingle,
Ireland, he unfolds his repertoire in a strippeddown, soulful set. Friday, Nov. 6, at 10 p.m.,
Smithsonian Channel
Ansari lets loose in Master of None.
Getting On
Perhaps its not surprising that a subdued comedy about the absurdist mechanics of a geriatric
care unit never found its audience. But Getting
On has lived a life worth celebrating, particularly
for the performance of Laurie Metcalf, whos
been a riot as fecal matterobsessed Dr. Jenna
James. Graciously, HBO is allowing the series a
final season in which to bid farewell with dignity. Watch it now, or bookmark it for future
streaming. Sunday, Nov. 8, at 10 p.m., HBO
Other highlights
2016 Democratic Candidates Forum
As the Democrats debate series continues, Hillary Clinton is riding a Round 1 victory (but
dont tell that to Bernie Sanders supporters) and
two candidates have bowed out. Rachel Maddow
will host. Friday, Nov. 6, at 8 p.m., MSNBC
Agent X
Sharon Stone and Jeff Hephner co-star in this
National Treasurelike action drama about a
female vice president who calls upon a secret
agent to kick some enemy tail. Sunday, Nov. 8,
at 9 p.m., TNT
2016 Breakthrough Prize
Sure, its not 2016 yet, but the scientists and
mathematicians wholl be feted by this Silicon
Valleybacked awards ceremony are ahead of the
curve. Seth MacFarlane hosts. Sunday, Nov. 8, at
10 p.m., National Geographic
Show of the week

Flesh and Bone
Hay, with Ben Daniels: A dancer in a vise
A drama about ballerinas from a Breaking

Bad writer? For viewers, its a leap, but Moira
Walley-Beckett is no ordinary writer (she created Breaking Bads brilliant Ozymandias
episode), and Flesh and Bone is no fairy tale. An
excellent Sarah Hay stars as a self-destructive
young dancer from the sticks who becomes a
rising star with a New York ballet company led
by a mercurial artistic director. Images of balletic grace and glimpses of masochistic despair
form a captivating pas de deux. Think Darren
Aronofskys grotesque fantasy Black Swan, only
fathoms deeper. Sunday, Nov. 8, at 8 p.m., Starz
All listings are Eastern Time.
K.C. Bailey/Netflix, Starz
30 ARTS
LEISURE
Food & Drink
31
Pork and tomatillo stew: A ticket back to 1970s Berkeley

1 lime
Sour cream
Nothing inspires me like a well-stocked

market, says Ruth Reichl in My Kitchen
Year (Random House). All my life, picking
out ingredients has been as much a part of
cooking as the peeling and the chopping.
These days, grocery aisles overflow with
options. But it wasnt always so.
Begin by cutting the pork shoulder, butt, or

loin into 2-inch cubes. Sprinkle with salt.
Remove husks from the tomatillos, wash
the sticky surface off, and quarter them.
Put them into a pot with the tomatoes,
dark beer, and 1 cups of fresh orange
juice. Let that stew for half an hour or so,
until everything has become tender.
I still remember the first time I tried a tomatillo. It was Berkeley, it was the 70s, and
I was an aspiring writer making ends meet
by cooking at a collectively owned restaurant. The mysterious orb and its papery
husk fascinated me, and when I got home
and cut one open, I discovered that it had
an intriguingly sexy sourness.
In the recipe I then dreamed up for our
adventurous diners, I played up the tartness
of the tomatillos by stewing them in a couple of easier-to-come-by ingredients: orange
juice and dark beer. Cilantro, another new
acquaintance, was added as a bright, fresh
garnish, and, as with everything we cooked,
I included a generous amount of garlic.
Not only was the stew a hit back then;
Ive been making it ever since. It reminds
me of a time when tomatillos and cilantro were completely new, and nothing
seemed impossible.
Mikkel Vang, courtesy of Burrasca
Pork and tomatillo stew

2 lbs pork shoulder, butt, or loin
Still tasty after all these years
Salt
1 lb tomatillos
1 lb Roma tomatoes, coarsely chopped
1 bottle dark beer
68 juice oranges (to make 1 cups of
fresh juice)
1 head garlic
Grapeseed or canola oil
2 large onions, chopped
1 bunch cilantro, chopped
2 jalapeos, minced
Black pepper
1 can black beans, drained
White rice
Brown the pork in a casserole, along with

8 to 10 whole cloves of peeled garlic, in a
few tablespoons of grapeseed or canola oil.
(Youll probably need to do this in batches,
removing the pork as it browns.) Put onions
into the now empty casserole, along with
the cilantro and jalapeos. Add salt and
pepper to taste, and be sure to scrape the
bottom, stirring in the delicious brown bits.
Cook until onions are translucent, about 10
minutes, then put tomatillo mixture along
with the pork and garlic into casserole, turn
the heat to low, partially cover, and cook
very slowly for about 2 hours.
Squish the garlic cloves into stew with the
back of a spoon, add the can of black beans
(or a cup of home-cooked black beans), and
cook for 10 more minutes. Serve over white
rice. Stir the juice of a lime into a cup of
sour cream and serve as a garnish. Serves 6.
Portland: The best of the bootstrap entrepreneurs
Wine: An Austrian underdog
Keeping up with the best new places to eat in Portland is

a serious challenge, said Michael Russell in the Portland
Oregonian. Every year, dozens of newcomers prove worth
adding to a visitors itinerary. But when the question is what
newcomers matter most, former pop-up operations and
food trucks are a good place to start. If 2014 was the year
of the pop-up, 2015 was the year pop-ups settled down, establishing permanent addresses for some of the citys most
compelling food.
The Peoples Pig It was a match made in hog heaven when
smoked-meat impresario Cliff Allen closed his cart and took
over the former home of the Tropicana Bar Be Cue. Allens
sliced pork shoulder is the best smoked meat in town, and
by putting smoked-then-fried chicken on a roll with Sriracha
Burrascas Paolo Calamai
mayo and jalapeo relish, hes created Portlands sandwich
of the year. 3217 N. Williams Ave., (503) 282-2800
Burrasca Florentine native Paolo Calamai has followed up his 2014 Food Cart of the Year
honors by opening a narrow storefront with a nice back patio. The menu is still rustic
Tuscan, including a pitch-perfect pappa al pomodoro and his signature spinach-ricotta
gnudi in a sage-infused butter sauce. 2032 S.E. Clinton St., (503) 236-7791.
Nodoguro Sushi chef Ryan Roadhouse has chosen a counter at Southeast Hawthornes
Pastaworks as the permanent home of his creative Japanese dinner series. His themed
meals riff on everything from Twin Peaks to McDonalds. On Wednesdays and Sundays, he eschews gimmicks, sharpens a knife the size of a small samurai sword, and
lays out the best sushi in the city. 3735 S.E. Hawthorne Blvd., (720) 244-3386
Blaufrnkisch deserves to have far

more fans, said Eric Asimov in The New
York Times. An inviting, spicy, juicy
wine, this Austrian red combines the
delightful approachability of gamay with
the savory warmth of syrah. A decade
ago, a blaufrnkisch tended be a stolid,
blockish wine, but winemakers have
altered their methods, and wine lovers
in America havent caught up.
2010 Prieler Burgenland Leithaberg
($68). This complex wine offers hints
of licorice and smoked meat. Still, it
lacks the energy and zest of two
cheaper options that topped our list
and appear below.
2011 Krutzler Sdburgenland
($15). Redolent of red fruits, this
vibrant, earthy wine was our
panels favorite blaufrnkischand
its a great value.
2011 Meinklang Burgenland
($15). This spicy, refreshing wine
was a delightful surpriseits
produced by a family farm that
also makes beer and raises cattle.
Travel
32 LEISURE
This weeks dream: Rediscovering Sri Lankas tranquil northeast

east and south through marshes and
For nearly three decades, much of Sri
tidy farmland. Sri Lankas southwestLanka was off limits to visitors, said
ern coast has long been popular with
Samanth Subramanian in Travel +
international travelers, but here in the
Leisure. Militant minority Tamils began
east, the beaches felt new and undisa bloody insurgency against the majorcovered. Our hotel, Uga Jungle Beach,
ity Sinhalese government in 1983, and
was sandwiched between the forest and
by the time their rebellion was finally
the aquamarine ocean. The local wildlife
crushed, 26 years later, more than
made regular appearances. Once, during
100,000 people had died. The peace,
breakfast, a sambar deer stalked up to
since 2009, has been fraught and coma neighboring table and guzzled a roll,
plicated. But now, ethnic tensions are
then headed back into the bush. Early
easing, and the Tamil heartlands in the
one morning, I ventured to Thiriyaya
north and east are opening to the outside
to visit a famous temple built perhaps
world. These former battle zones yield
A Tamil woman cycles past a Hindu temple in Jaffna.
2,600 years ago. In silence, I walked to
little-known treasures: monuments and
the central reliquary, where a brick ziggurat
forests, vibrant food, and a beguiling, langleam with new coats of paint. I spent
stands that is thought to contain one of the
guorous way of life.
48 hours exploring the peninsula, stopping
at old Hindu temples and drinking coconut Buddhas hairs. In the predawn gloom, the
structure seemed cold and forbidding. But
I flew in to Jaffna, a city that sits on a north- water on Casuarina Beach. The days were
when the sun rose over the ocean, it washed
ern peninsula of the island. When I last vis- bright and very hot. Jaffnas food seemed
Thiriyaya with orange light, rekindling an
ited, in 2011, Jaffnas roads were lined with to have absorbed the temper of its climate:
bombed-out buildings. A lot has changed
fiery curries of fresh crab; an addictive relish ancient heat within its blocks of stone.
Experience Travel Group (experiencetravelsince then: The streets are better paved.
of coconut, chilis, and cured tuna.
group.com) offers two-week tours of north
Houses have been fixed up. The small
and east Sri Lanka starting at $3,100.
Hindu shrines that sat on every street corner An hour out of Jaffna, a new road curves
A roomy guest cottage
Colorado Chautauqua
Boulder
Need an escape from the
modern world? asked John
Lumpkin in The Dallas
Morning News. Colorado
Chautauqua, a resort opened
in 1898 by supporters of the
Chautauqua adult-education
movement, is now a National
Historic Landmark, and it
remains an oasis of rejuvenation and enlightenment.
There are no TVs, phones,
or air-conditioning in the
58 guest cottages. Instead,
visitors are encouraged to
hike nearby mountains and
attend illuminating on-site
events, including dance
performances, lectures,
and concerts by the likes of
Emmylou Harris.
chautauqua.com; cottages
from $148
Getting the flavor of...

A capital of the Berkshires
The Florida peninsulas highest peak
Pittsfield, Mass., is making a comeback, said

Jaci Conry in The Boston Globe. In the early
1980s, I was a regular visitor to Pittsfieldmy
grandparents hometown and the largest city
in the Berkshiresand those trips were highlights of my childhood. I was mesmerized by
downtowns stately Victorian buildings, which
exuded a mystique that hinted at a bygone era.
But the city was already in declineGeneral
Electric was shuttering facilities in the area, and
Pittsfield would soon become dreary, depressing, and sad. Now, fortunately, a thriving arts
scene is attracting visitors, and business, back
to Pittsfield. Plays at the Barrington Stage Co.
and concerts at the Colonial Theatre draw large
crowds, bringing guests to the new 45-room
Hotel on North, which has both a hip aesthetic
and a time-honored feel. As I left town, I felt
happy knowing that my grandparents beloved
city was poised to endure for a long time.
From the parking lot, we could see the top of

the Singing Tower peeking through the pines and
moss-draped oaks, said Marjie Lambert in The
Miami Herald. On an impulse, we had stopped
off at Bok Tower Gardens, located 55 miles
southwest of Orlando on a 298-foot hill that
is Floridas highest peak east of the panhandle;
we were curious to see the tower and the surrounding gardens that were gifted to the public
in 1929 by magazine publisher Edward W. Bok.
We joined a guided tour through the Frederick
Law Olmsteddesigned gardens, which every
year erupt in a blaze of spring color. Eventually
our party emerged from a cluster of trees and
the tower rose high above us. It had looked pure
pink from a distance, but up close we could see
veins of coral and gray in the marble, and gorgeous tile work depicting the Garden of Eden
and Florida plants and wildlife. Twice every day,
the towers 60 bells fill the gardens with music.
Last-minute travel deals

A hop through Vietnam
Explore Vietnam with a
10-night $1,899 package that
includes round-trip airfare from
New York City, guided tours,
and stays in Hanoi, Hoi An,
Hue, and Ho Chi Minh City.
Book by Nov. 30 for travel in
May and Sept. 2016.
Soothing St. Lucia

Spend five nights in an oceanview room at the Coconut Bay
Beach Resort & Spa on St.
Lucia for $1,145, a 50 percent
saving. Daily meals, drinks, spa
treatments, and fitness classes
are included. Book by Nov. 30
for travel through Dec. 20.
Hawaiian family fun

Take the kids to Hawaii and
stretch out on Kaanapali Beach
when you stay at the Westin
Maui Resort & Spa, which has
four restaurants, five pools,
and two waterslides. Book by
Nov. 15 and get $200 air credit.
Kids under 17 stay free.
worldspree.com
stlucianow.com/hw
westinmaui.com
Getty
Hotel of the week
Consumer
LEISURE 33
The 2016 Honda Civic: What the critics say

Road & Track
The thoroughly remade Civic just might
transport you back to a time when Hondas
were actually sporty, cool, and even fun to
drive. Three years after rolling out a pokey
ninth-generation edition that cost the Civic
its title as the best-selling compact in the
U.S., Honda has unveiled a successor that
sits on a new platform, sports a choice of
new engines, and drives much more like
the Mazda3 than the Toyota Corolla.
Car and Driver
Beyond that, this is a highly styled automobile. The new exterior is sleek and
fastback-like, and the cabin feels simulta-
neously more modern and more intimate.

The base engine is a 2.0-liter in-line fourcylinder that can be paired with a manual
transmission, a combination lively enough
that its hard to argue the more powerful
turbocharged 1.5-liter upgrade is a better
choice. Either engine can exceed 40 mpg on
the highway. More importantly, Honda has
once again taken up the cause of building
basic transportation that doesnt feel basic.
TheDetroitBureau.com
Attractive, roomy, well-equipped, fueleficient, and fun to drivethere really
isnt much to complain about with the Civic
beyond, say, its laggy touchscreen display.
A thorough rebirth, from $18,640

Even given that small flaw, this car is
almost certain to become the new benchmark in the compact four-door market.
The best ofchain saws
Black & Decker

LCS1020B
Echo Timber Wolf
Stihl MS 180 C-BE
This gas-powered saw

with a 66-cc engine is
one of the fastest-cutting
saws around, and
though handling could
be better, the saw is
fairly easy to use overall. Blade lengths range
from 18 to 24 inches.
Tool-free chain adjustment and a lightweight build make this

moderate-duty 16-inch
saw a standout for ease
of use. For a saw powered by a 33-cc engine,
it delivers ultrafast
cutting action.
Battery-powered saws
still cant keep up with
the big boys, but this
10-inch can do a lot of
light trimming before it
runs out of juice. Think
of it as proof that badass
and environmentally
friendly arent mutually
exclusive.
$436, amazon.com
Source: ConsumerReports.org
$250, truevalue.com
Source: ConsumerReports.org
$100, homedepot.com
Source: HiConsumption.com
Husqvarna
440 E-series
Poulan Pro
Whenever you buy a

Husqvarna, youre
getting one of the best
chain saws on the market. The 440 E-series of
moderate-duty saws are
built to be fuel-eficient
and feature impressive
vibration dampening.
Because Poulan is
owned by Husqvarna,
when you buy a Poulan
Pro, you get components you might ind
in the 440 E, but for a
lot less money. Plan
to swap out the chain,
though, because the
Poulans isnt very good.
$300, chainsawdirect.com
Source: FamilyHandyman.com
$200, acehardware.com
Source: ChainSawJournal.com
Tip of the week...

Five smart uses for steel wool
And for those who have

everything...
Best websites...
For discovering new music
QClean your sneakers. Extra-fine steel wool

removes dirt and scuff marks from rubber
soles. It works quicker than a toothbrush
with less elbow grease.
QPrevent a hair clog. When giving your dog
a bath, put a wad of steel wool over the
drain in the tub to catch hair before it gets
into the pipe. But dont leave the steel wool
in, because it rusts quickly.
QSand woodwork. Wood doesnt always
cry out for sandpaper. Fine steel wool is
great for cleaning up paint drips or for
sanding curved surfaces like table legs.
QKeep pests out. Look for gaps where
wiring enters the house and fill those gaps
with steel wool. Mice cant chew through it,
and it makes a good foundation for a patch
or spray foam.
QRenew your cars rims. Dish soap and
extra-fine steel wool can cut through a lot
of built-up brake dust.
A massager...for your
face? The Kat Burki
Micro-Firming Wand is just
thatand representative of
the sudden advent of handheld
devices designed to make the
user look younger and healthier.
The vibrating metal tips on
these devices stimulate blood
flow, roll out excess water that
can make your face puffy, and
help rid skin of the toxins that
age it. You could massage your
face with your ingers, as some
women have done for years, but
the wands apply gentler, more
consistent pressure. Because the
Kat Burki wand has a relatively
small tip, its perfect for targeting the
undereye area.
QSoundCloud.com often features tracks

from major artists who want to leak new
music while waiting for lawyers to clear it
for broader distribution. You can search for
artists you already like, then check out musicians they claim to follow.
QSongza.com features a Brand New Music
section curated by the sites experts. Choose
among genres to stream the gurus picks.
QVuHaus.com collects live performance
sessions that aired on public radio.
QReddit.com maintains a Listen to This
page where users post songs and readers
vote them up or down. Because the site
removes anything recorded by mainstream
artists, the music you hear is almost guaranteed to be something new.
QNoonPacific.com was created by a music
obsessive who scours the web for obscure
music, then posts a weekly playlist of reliably great choices.
Source: Womans Day
$85, katburki.com
Source: Health
Source: Popular Mechanics

34
Best properties on the market
This week: Homes under $300,000

1 X Keokuk, Iowa Birdwood is a four-bedroom
Italianate home sitting on a
150-foot bluff overlooking
the Mississippi River. The
house was built during two
different periods, 1840 and
1855. Details include 12foot ceilings, the original
wood flooring, a grand
staircase, arched doorways,
and a tower room accessible by a secret staircase.
The 0.48-acre property features a large lawn, a 6-foot
fence, a workshop, and a
carriage house. $279,000.
For sale by owner, (319)
520-7214
2 W Minneapolis This three-bedroom stone house

built in 1893 has been designated a Minneapolis
historic landmark. The Gothic-style home includes
original woodwork, stained glass, and a modern
kitchen. The exterior features a checkerboardpatterned gable and a bulls-eye window in the
gable above the front door. $229,777. Deb Greene,
Coldwell Banker Burnet, (612) 247-0777
3 X Bulverde, TexasSet
on 1.1 acres, this fourbedroom home has panoramic Hill Country views.
The adobe-style house has
two fireplaces, exposed
ceiling beams, and a
media room prewired for
surround sound. Other
details include tile floors,
arched doorways, and a
large outdoor deck with an
elevated area. $294,000.
Nicholas Kjos, Kuper/
Sothebys International
Realty, (210) 294-4481
6
4
Best properties on the market
35
4 X Zanesville, Ohio Built
by William Curtis in 1871,

this three-bedroom Italianate
house is in the historic McIntire Terrace District. The home
features hardwood oak floors,
three original fireplaces, six
sets of French doors, and
crown molding and lead glass
cabinets in the living room.
The 0.68-acre property on a
tree-covered, brick-lined street
includes a three-car garage.
$274,900. For sale by owner,
(740) 319-4946
5 S Sullivan, Maine Built
in 2004, this two-bedroom

home on Long Cove has 390
feet of ocean frontage. Long
Cove Cottage has an open
floor plan, a cathedral ceiling, and a wall of windows
overlooking the water. The
energy-efficient house has
a high-tech woodstove and
radiant heating. The property also includes a nearly
completed 1,600-square-foot
boat workshop. $295,000.
James OKeefe, the Knowles
Co., (207) 276-3322
6 S Saranac Lake, N.Y. This four-bedroom
American Foursquare house is in the Helen

Hill Historic District. The interior features the
original woodwork, French doors, a window
seat, and a stone fireplace. Set on a 0.2-acre
lot, the property has a fenced yard and a
covered porch, and is within walking distance
of downtown. $215,000. Corey Iaria, Select/
Sothebys International Realty, (518) 524-6608
The bottom line

QSingapore has topped the
World Banks annual ranking
of the best countries to do
business in for the eighth
consecutive year, followed
by New Zealand, Denmark,
South Korea, and Hong Kong.
The U.S. ranked seventh on
the list of 189 nations, which
considers factors like the cost
of starting a business and
the quality and efficiency of
regulations.
The Wall Street Journal

QAmerican Airlines earns
half of its revenue from just
13 percent of its customers,
most of whom are frequent
fliers willing to pay for upgrades. The other 87percent
of its customers fly once a
year or less.
Qz.com
QAmazon plans to hire
100,000 seasonal workers to
staff its shipping warehouses
and sorting centers during
the holidays, up from 80,000
last year. Most other large
retailers expect to keep their
seasonal hiring levels steady
from last year. Macys will
hire 85,000 workers, Walmart
60,000, and Target 70,000.
CNBC.com
QToyota reclaimed the title

of worlds biggest automaker
from Volkswagen this week
after reporting that it sold
7.52million cars and trucks in
the first nine months of 2015,
compared with 7.43million
sold by Volkswagen. Even before the German automaker
was embroiled in a dieselemissions cheating scandal,
its car sales were slipping
in crucial markets like China
and Brazil.
The New York Times

QThe Federal Reserve left
interest rates unchanged after

a two-day policy meeting in
Washington this week. The
Fed will next revisit a possible
rate hike, the first since 2006,
at meetings in December.
USA Today
BUSINESS
The news at a glance
Finance: Insider trading convictions thrown out
This development is a devasA landmark insider trading
tating repudiation of Bharara,
ruling is beginning to make
whose campaign against insider
waves, said Matthew Goldstein in
trading just ground to an ingloThe New York Times. After the
rious halt, said Patrick Radden
Supreme Court declined to review
Keefe in The New Yorker. The
an appeals court decision that
appeals court, ruling on a sepadramatically narrowed the definirate insider-trading case, declared
tion of insider trading, U.S. Attorthat its not enough for prosecuney Preet Bharara in New York
tors to prove that traders passed
took the startling step last week
inside information to friends or
of throwing out seven high-profile
Bharara: Cases up in smoke
colleagues. Prosecutors must also
convictions. The 2013 convicprove that the original tipster was somehow
tion of hedge fund manager Michael Steinberg,
and the guilty pleas of six cooperating witnesses, compensated for the tip, as well as show that
the tipped-off trader knew the information he
had been the crowning achievement of Bharaor she received was illegal. With so much room
ras crackdown on illegal-trading tipsters. But he
for plausible deniability, insider trading is now
admitted the cases were no longer valid after the
Supreme Court stood by the lower courts ruling. effectively legal in the United States.
Autos: GM and workers union strike a deal

The United Auto Workers and General Motors tentatively agreed to a
new four-year contract this week, averting a strike minutes before the
midnight deadline, said Alisa Priddle and Greg Gardner in the Detroit
Free Press. The deal will largely mirror one ratified by Fiat Chrysler
last week, which also went down to the wire. The main sticking point:
ending the hated two-tier wage system that barred new hires from
eventually earning as much as longtime workers. Under the new deal, all
workers can reach a top pay of $29 per hour.
Washington: House votes to save Ex-Im Bank

The House of Representatives voted this week to give new life to the
embattled U.S. Export-Import Bank, said Nick Timiraos in The Wall
Street Journal. The 81-year-old agency, which provides financing and
credit insurance for foreign buyers of U.S. goods, has been closed since
its charter expired in July. Conservatives have criticized it as a form of
corporate welfare, but a broad coalition of Democrats and Republicans
defied the banks opponents with a rare procedural maneuver to force a
vote. The bank still faces an uncertain fate in the Senate.
Tech: Cloud computing wins on Wall Street

The cloud is raining cash on Amazon, Google, and Microsoft, said
Jack Clark in Bloomberg.com. The three tech giants, boosted by their
success selling computing power and other online services via massive
data centers, each beat profit estimates for the third quarter. In particular, Amazons Web Services division grew 78 percent from a year ago,
helping the company report a rare profit. Happy investors added a combined $86 billion to the three companies total market value, highlighting the widening gulf between these three and traditional IT providers
like IBM and Oracle, which arrived late to the cloud boom.
Health care: Walgreens and Rite Aid to merge

Walgreens announced plans this week to buy rival Rite Aid, in a deal
that would whittle the nations onetime mom-and-pop drugstore
industry into two massive chains, said Nathan Bomey in USA Today.
Walgreens controls 31 percent of the countrys pharmacy and drugstore
business, and Rite Aid 10 percent, making them the second- and thirdlargest drugstore chains. The deal would intensify Walgreens already
fierce competition with CVS Health, which has 58 percent market
share. Both companies are fending off competition from mail-order prescription discounters, online pharmacies, and wholesale drug retailers.
The sales meeting?

Its in Tahrir Square.
The Bastille, Tiananmen
Square, and Tahrir
Square arent just the
locations of uprisings,
said Rebecca Greenfield
in Bloomberg.com.
Theyre also the names
of conference rooms
in the San Francisco
office of crowdfunding
app Tilt. Giving rooms
oddball names is now
a full-fledged Silicon
Valley trend, proof perhaps that startup culture has evolved into a
parody of itself. Twitter
has rooms named for
birds; employees at
social software maker
Sprinklr hold meetings
in Honesty, Passion,
and Perseverance. At
Facebook, some meeting spaces are named
after bad ideaslike
the Subprime Mortgage
roompresumably to
prevent similar blunders
from happening again.
Tilt CEO James Beshara
says naming rooms
after historical places
gives workers a sense
of purpose. Its unclear
if meetings held in
Robben Island, a room
named after the prison
where Nelson Mandela
spent 18 years, feel as if
they drag on.
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Making money
BUSINESS 37
Banking: Predatory prepaid debit cards

poor and working-class Americans
For customers of RushCard, a prepaid
many of them black, Latino, and Nadebit card company with nearly 3 miltive Americandont have the steady
lion members, Oct. 12 was the day the
income stream it takes to maintain the
money stopped, said The Economist.
balances required by most banks. As a
Thousands of account holders, many of
result, theyre forced to rely on pricey
whom use the card because they are too
alternatives like payday lenders,
poor to afford a bank account, tried to
check cashers, and pawn shops that,
access their money only to be told their
while predatory, are at least flexible.
balance was zero, thanks to a spectacular IT failure. Already living paycheck
Unfortunately for RushCard customto paycheck, many cardholders were
When a traditional bank account is out of reach
ers, their options for recourse are
forced to go without groceries, gas,
limited, said Mandi Woodruff in Yahoo.com. Their cardholder
and even medication for nearly two weeks before the company,
agreement bars class-action lawsuits, and it could take years
founded by hip-hop magnate Russell Simmons, fixed the glitch.
for regulators to squeeze compensation out of the company.
RushCard is now offering a fee-free period from Nov. 1
This technical disaster has unfolded largely under the media
radar, possibly because members of the cards customer base live through Feb. 29, but thats cold comfort to many people who
under the media radar, said Michael Hiltzik in the Los Angeles were forced to scrape by because of the companys errors. The
sad truth is that most of Americas unbanked dont have many
Times. RushCard is a financial lifeline for its mostly lowother options, said Jeff Spross in TheWeek.com. Big banks have
income customers, especially since it lets users get paychecks up
been consolidating for years and pulling up stakes in poorer
to two days in advance. But like many financial products caterneighborhoods, allowing payday lenders and check cashers to
ing to the poor, RushCard comes barnacled with fees, includmove in and fill the gap. One solution that has been floated is
ing a $9.95 fee to acquire the card in the first place, a monthly
account fee of up to $7.95, $1 for every transaction, and a $1.95 to revive the banking functions of the U.S. Postal Service, something the USPS did for decades until the 1960s. As expensive fimaintenance fee when members dont spend money for 30
nancial products like RushCard spread, a public option might
days. Some 17 million Americans are unbanked, meaning
be necessary. Otherwise, millions of Americans will be charged
they dont have traditional bank accounts, said Jamelle Bouie
exorbitant fees for the mere opportunity to continue participatin Slate.com, and 58 million are underbanked, lacking access
ing in the economy at all.
to banking services like debit cards and savings accounts. These
What the experts say

Trading Twitters favorite stocks
Twitter users stock-picking chops could
soon be put to the test, said Eric Balchunas
in Bloomberg.com. Market Prophit, a data
analytics firm that tracks social media chatter
about the stock market, is in talks to create
an exchange-traded fund based on its Social
Media Sentiment Index. Market Prophits
index tracks the 25 most-tweeted-about stocks,
using algorithms to analyze each stocks sentiment factoressentially, whether people are
tweeting good or bad things about a company.
The index, which is reconstituted quarterly
but rebalances daily, then goes long or short
based on sentiment from the Twitterverse.
So far, the index is up 7 percent this year. It
holds some big-name companies, like Apple,
Amazon, and Microsoft, but also smaller firms
often mentioned in tweets, like GoPro, Tesla,
and Baidu. And yes, it also holds Twitter.
Screenshot: Twitter
Misjudging mutual funds

Dont be so quick to ditch that losing fund
in your 401(k), said Gail MarksJarvis in the
Chicago Tribune. Appearances can deceive,
especially after rocky periods like this years
third quarter. If your mutual fund invests in
large U.S. stocks like Apple and Walmart,
you probably lost money to the tune of about
Charity of the week

7 percent. But if your mutual fund invests in
U.S. government bonds, your balance probably grew by about 3 percent. The stock fund
may look like an idiotic choice right now,
but holding a variety of funds is still your best
bet over the long term. Its better to compare
your fund to the average fund like it. If your
fund took a hit similar to that of the rest of its
peers, you dont have a loser.
Dont be a credit revolver

It doesnt just matter if you pay your bills,
but how you pay them, said Liz Weston in
Reuters.com. Some credit reports now show
whether you regularly pay your credit cards in
full every month, and lenders increasingly use
that information to decide your rates, terms,
and whether to lend to you at all. Borrowers
are classified as either low-risk transactors
who pay their balance in full, or higher-risk
revolvers who carry a balance. Revolvers
are three times more likely to default on new
credit cards and auto loans, and five times
more likely to default on current cards, a study
by credit bureau TransUnion found. The three
major credit bureausEquifax, Experian, and
TransUnionadded payment patterns to credit
reports about two years ago and sell that data
to lenders who create their own custom scores.
The Honor Flight Network

(honorflight.org) is dedicated
to honoring
and thanking
Americas veterans for their
sacrifices.
The organization,
created
in 2005,
provides veterans of Americas wars
with a free opportunity to visit and pay
tribute to comrades at memorials on
the National Mall. Veterans receive free
lodging and airfare, as well as a cheering send-off and reception at the airport;
volunteer guardians escort them to
ensure they have a safe, memorable,
and rewarding experience. Over the past
decade, more than 100,000 veterans have
embarked on the journey to Washington,
D.C., and at least 25,000 are expected
to make the trip this year. Top priority is
given to the veterans of World War II and
terminally ill veterans of other conflicts.
Each charity we feature has earned a
four-star overall rating from Charity
Navigator, which rates not-for-profit
organizations on the strength of their
finances, their governance practices,
and the transparency of their operations.
Four stars is the groups highest rating.
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38
Issue of the week: Silicon Valleys troubled unicorns
Inflations
surprising
disappearance
Steve Chapman
Chicago Tribune
Misbehaving
corporate
copycats
Gretchen Morgenson
The New York Times
Who could have imagined a few decades ago that

in 2015 inflation would no longer be much of a
threat? said Steve Chapman. Like communism, inflation is mostly a relic of a bygone erapresent in
severe form in a few isolated places, but otherwise
virtually extinct. In Venezuela, for instance, the socialist government has so mismanaged the economy
that feeding a family for a month costs three times
more than it did last year. With inflation topping
150 percent, even robbers reject Venezuelan bolivars. There was a time when such a chaotic state
of affairs here in the U.S. wouldnt have required
much imagination. Baby Boomers, who were raised
on lurid tales of the hyperinflation in 1920s Germany that led to Hitlers rise, retain a fear of inflation in their bone marrow and had a frightening
taste of double-digit inflation in the 1970s. But
most young Americans today simply dont know the
dread experience of skyrocketing prices. The U.S.
inflation rate has been below 4 percent since 1991,
and was effectively zero for the past year. If anything, the threat today is deflation and slow growth.
Conservatives who keep raising the alarm about
inflation sound like they are fighting the last war.
Its hard to believe, but weve gotten to the point
where a little inflation might be a good thing.
One bad corporate apple, it seems, can spoil a

whole bunch, said Gretchen Morgenson. Thats the
conclusion of a new study, which suggests that when
one company cooks its books, its rivals often follow
suit. Researchers examined accounting restatements,
which occur when a firm has misstated its earnings,
at more than 2,200 corporations over a 12-year
period. They discovered that companies were more
likely to engage in accounting charades if other
companies in their industry or region had also announced restatements in the previous 12 months.
The bigger the company, the more likely its misconduct was to be copied. Companies also emulated
their peers with remarkable precision, manipulating

the same corporate figures involved in initial cases,
whether those were fudged revenues or massaged
inventory numbers. The implication is that companies use their peers shady bookkeeping as a guide
for their own conduct. Equally intriguing were the
exceptions. When companies faced shareholder
lawsuits, bad press, or regulatory action, their bad
accounting didnt catch on. By contrast, little-noticed
restatements encouraged accounting shenanigans.
What this study hammers home is this: Accountability counts. In corporate America, leaving bad
behavior unchecked can have a contagious effect.
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Thats what I used to think, but the uniMost of us know unicorns are mythicorn cults irrational exuberance has
cal beasts. Sadly, only now does the
me on edge, said Christopher Mims in
same recognition seem to be dawning on
The Wall Street Journal. We have so
Silicon Valley, said Suzanne McGee in
far underestimated the potential impact
The Guardian (U.K.). In tech parlance,
of an implosion of relatively large, exunicorns are startups valued at $1 billion
tremely visible companies that are supor more. Once as rare as their fairy-tale
posed to be the vanguard of our brave
eponym, theyve multiplied rapidly in
new tech economy. Make no mistake,
recent months: Some 142 unicorns now
so-called unicorns are heading for a
roam the land, with a collective value of
fall every bit as dramatic as their hapless
$506 billion. Some, like Uber, Airbnb,
dot-com brethren 15 years ago, said
and Dropbox, have become household
names. But the enchantment is wearing
Are billion-dollar tech startups about to fall to Earth? Adam Lashinsky in Fortune.com. There
may not be a stock market bloodbath,
thin for many of the venture capitalists
since many of these companies havent gone public, but there will
who gave these firms their fantastical, multibillion-dollar valustill be consequencesthe loss of thousands of high-paying tech
ations in the first place. Some of Silicon Valleys most venerable
investors are now sounding the alarm that magical thinking about jobs, for one, not to mention the impact on commercial real estate, businesses that make their money selling to startups, and the
young, unprofitable companies has dangerously inflated a new
tech bubble. Bill Gurley, whose firm, Benchmark Capital, invested indirect hit to investor confidence. It wont be pretty.
early in eBay, Twitter, and Instagram, recently ventured a grim
This is why I always roll my eyes a bit when I read about how
prediction: I do think youll see some dead unicorns this year.
startups like Uber are going to change the world, said Megan
McArdle in BloombergView.com. The vast majority of unicorns
If a tech-startup crash comes in the next year, dont worry,
lose money hand over fist acquiring customers, hoping theyll
said Noah Smith in BloombergView.com. Unlike the dot-com
eventually acquire a nice cozy monopoly. Once that happens,
bubble of the late 1990s, a tech bust wont hit individual
goes the thinking, then theyll get serious about making a profit.
investors hard. Thats because this time around, tech startPlenty of companies tried this strategy during the dot-com era,
ups have largely shunned going public in favor of the private
and only one had much success: Amazon. Most suffered the
markets. If well-known startups begin to implode, Main Street
investors wont really feel itjust the startup founders who are fate of Kozmo.com, which burned through piles of cash, then
abruptly went out of business when the money ran out. I imagnow paper billionaires, and a few wealthy venture capitalists
with skin in the game. Ultimately, not much will be lost except ine a similar fate awaits most of todays billion-dollar startups.
Because its only in myth that unicorns are immortal.
for castles in the clouds.
Obituaries
The Irish actress who shone in Technicolor
For seven decades,
Maureen OHara
was Hollywoods
19202015
reigning Irish firebrand, a tempestuous and telegenic
beauty whose cascading red hair
and emerald eyes earned her the
title Queen of Technicolor. In a
handful of screen classics and some
more forgettable fare, OHara softened her sass with vulnerability. But
in most of her movies, observed
film historian David Thomson, she
was inclined to thrust her hands
on her hips, speak her mind, and
be told Youre pretty when youre angry. As
OHara put it, every star has that certain something that stands out and compels us to notice
them. I have always believed my most compelling
quality to be my inner strength.
Maureen
OHara
Born Maureen FitzSimons near Dublin, OHara

was one of six children. Her mother was a
trained opera singer and former stage actress,
and young Maureen followed in her footsteps,
appearing in school plays as a child. In 1934,
OHara entered the prestigious Abbey Theatre
School in Dublin, said The Washington Post,
and as a teenager signed a contract with actor
and producer Charles Laughton, who changed
her surname to fit better on a movie marquee.
Laughton handed OHara her

breakout Hollywood role as the
ravishing gypsy Esmeralda to
his Quasimodo in 1939s The
Hunchback of Notre Dame.
Two years later, in director John
Fords Oscar-winning How
Green Was My Valley, OHara
was memorable as a Welsh mining familys beautiful daughter,
said The New York Times. But
OHara gave perhaps her definitive performance in Fords 1952
comedy, The Quiet Man, as a
proud colleen who wedsand
wallopsJohn Wayne, a lifelong friend. I prefer the company of men, except for Maureen
OHara, Wayne once said. She is a great guy.
In the 1960s, OHara segued into wife and
mother roles in The Parent Trap and other films,
then walked away from Hollywood, said the
Los Angeles Times. After a two-decade hiatus,
OHara returned for sporadic onscreen appearances, notably as John Candys mother-from-hell
in 1991s Only the Lonely, and last year she
won an honorary Academy Award, retaining
her fierce radiance to the end. I was Irish; I
remain Irish, explained OHara, who became a
U.S. citizen in 1946. And Irish women dont let
themselves go.
The wild comic who wed a Hollywood star

After Marty Ingels
and his wife, the
Oscar-winning
19362015
actress Shirley Jones,
went through a difficult, yearlong
separation in the early 2000s, the
two agreed to meet for a therapy
session. Ingels, a comedian for
whom no stunt was too outrageous, turned up wearing a big hat
and playing a trombone. Well,
sighed the therapist, looks like you
havent changed a bit, Marty. The
couple got back together and stayed
happily marrieda relationship that confounded
many Hollywood observers. I was a Jewish kid
from Brooklyn and she was Miss America, he
said. A lot of people never got that.
Everett Collection, Getty
Marty
Ingels
Born in Brooklyn to a family of dentists, Ingels

got his break as an actor at the Pasadena
Playhouse in Los Angeles, said Variety.com.
After realizing he wasnt suited to stage work
the audience erupted in laughter whenever he
tried to deliver a serious linehe turned to
comedy and TV, landing parts in The Dick Van
Dyke Show, The Addams Family, and other sitcoms. His biggest role was as a carpenter called
Fenster in the short-lived but much-loved 1962
ABC comedy Im Dickens, Hes

Fenster. In the early 1970s,
Ingels had a paralyzing anxiety attack while performing on
The Tonight Show, more or less
ending his stand-up career,
said The New York Times. He
spent months as a recluse, before
turning to voiceover work and
founding a successful celebritybooking agency for advertisers.
I was once invited to an agoraphobic convention, he later
joked. How can that be? I pictured a giant stadium with nobody there.
For all his show business achievements, Ingels
was best known as half of one of Hollywoods
oddest couples, said the Los Angeles Times.
When courting Jones, whom he married in 1977,
he showed up at her movie set in a 38-foot
motor home with Champagne, mood music, and
her favorite Cobb salad from Hollywoods Brown
Derby. Jones once arrived home to find Ingels,
her husband by then, dancing on their lawn with
her Oscar for Elmer Gantry, accompanied by a
hired mariachi band. He often drove me crazy,
Jones said last week. But theres not a day I
wont miss him and love him to my core.
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The engineer who
spearheaded the
Apollo program
In 1961, President Kennedy
announced an ambitious
goal for America: landing
a man on the moon and
returning him safely to Earth
before the end
of the decGeorge
ade. George
Mueller
Mueller,
19182015
NASAs head
of manned spaceflight, knew
how to make it happen.
Rather than testing rocket
parts individuallya timeconsuming processMueller
convinced his scientists and
engineers to adopt an allup approach and launch
all the pieces at once. It
sounded reckless, but [his]
reasoning was impeccable,
said Wernher von Braun, who
oversaw the building of the
Apollo programs Saturn V
rocket. Without all-up testing, the first manned lunar
landing could not have taken
place as early as 1969.
Born in St. Louis, Mueller
had a boyhood interest in
building model airplanes
and radio receivers, said
the Los Angeles Times.
After studying electrical
engineering and physics
in college, he began his
career at the aerospace firm
Ramo-Wooldridge Corp.,
and joined NASA in 1963.
Five years later, after only
two test flights of Saturn V,
the three-astronaut crew of
Apollo 8 became the first to
orbit the moon and return
toEarth.
Mueller left NASA for the
private sector in 1969, four
months after Neil Armstrong
set foot on the moon.
Besides the lunar landing,
he also played a part in the
development of the Skylab
space station, and urged
the development of a reusable space shuttle, said
The New York Times. His
tenure wasnt without tragedy: Three astronauts were
killed in a launch pad test
in 1967. But Mueller insisted
risk taking was essential. If
you designed your program
to be absolutely safe, he
reasoned, youd absolutely
never fly.
The last word
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Yielding to Mother Nature

I thought nature was something wed long ago bent to our will, said Amanda Fortini. Then I moved to Montana.
temperof Livingston. It was held

ate late-April afterhigh in the Absaroka
noon five years
Mountains, so attendees
ago, I make the 26-mile
were bused up. As we
drive from Livingston,
listened to the music, the
Mont., the small town of
clear late-summer day
7,000 where I live, to the
swiftly turned inclement.
nearest city, Bozeman, to
I heard the low growl of
get a bikini wax. When I
thunder. Neon bolts of
leave the appointment an
lightning sliced through
hour later, the air is heavy,
the sky. The other concertthe sky darkening to the
goers looked up, then
color of dishwater, and
around at each other.
all signs point to rain. But
People began to run for
my then boyfriend, now
the buses, but the concert
husband, is returning from
was still in progress and
a trip that evening, so I
the vehicles hadnt yet
ignore the weather, because
made their way back up
I want to buy some candles
the mountain. As a group
before he arrives. By the
of us stood there, waiting,
time I emerge from the
the rain falling cold and
When you live here, nature becomes a part of every decision.
store, snow is beginning to
hard, the sky crackling
fall. Now I know that when the sky starts
In any case, I dont trust that the small Ford and flashing, I heard a mans voice loudly
glowering like this, its safest to prepare
drawl Monf---intana.
hybrid Im driving will keep me safe and
for the worst, but at the time, I anticifrostbite-free while I idle by the side of the
Drenched, jittery, jaded, and having grown
pate a light dusting. Its spring, after all.
highway, with more-substantial cars hurfatalistic from living here, we all knew
Unconcerned, I get into my car.
tling past, spraying snow from their tires.
exactly what he meant.
So I creep along, praying I wont slide into
My route home will take me over the
DIDNT MOVE to Montana to escape my
another car, or off the mountainside, trying
Bozeman Pass, a winding mountain passage to suppress the hysteria rising in my chest,
life, to find myself, or to edge closer to
on Interstate 90 that joins the Gallatin and
nature. Im not one of those urbanites
promising God that I will no longer be
Bridger ranges, and sits at the approximate
crabby or impatient or late on my deadlines who left her office job to subsist as a faux
midpoint between Bozeman and Livingston. if I can just have some help getting home.
pioneer, shearing sheep and canning artiDriving over the pass in the winter is
sanal jam. I should say, too, that I dont live
dangerous, and instills a twinge of fear in
When most people learn that youre from
in the wilderness. Our town, though small,
the hearts of all but the most foolhardy
Montana, they say something like I hear
has a post office, movie theater, nail salon,
locals. Theres an online webcam that offers its gorgeous there or Wow, Montana,
yoga studio, three bookstores, 14 art gallerreal-time pictures of the highest point (eleva- beautiful Big Sky country. Theyre referies, and a handful of decent restaurants. My
tion 5,702 feet). Usually, someone who has
ring to the landscape, of course, with its
husband and I live in an old boarding house
had to drive over the passfor work, or
immense, unobstructed horizon and bluefrom the 1890s that has the airy, bohemian
to fetch a visitor at the airportposts their
tinged mountains that break into rolling
feel of a loft. I buy a 16-ounce green tea
snapshot on the Livingston Facebook page, sage-covered hills of grayish-green. It is
from a coffee shop every morning. We do
letting other people know of the conditions. beautiful, almost heartbreakingly so, but
shots of wheatgrass at the local juice bar.
News of snow and ice also travels quickly
thats an idealized portrayal, and such a
I rarely cook, so we eat out most nights.
by word of mouth through the towns lunch superficial description of what nature is like In other words, I didnt make a deliberate
spots, coffee shops, and bars.
here. It assumes that nature is solely pictodecision to leave civilization behind.
rial and visualan image on a postcard, an
I dont yet know about any of this on that
I moved for the reason many people reloobject you appreciate, an amenity. But in
afternoon five years ago because Ive only
Montana, nature is forceful, astronomical in cate: to make my relationship work. My
just moved to the area, and by the time
its magnitude and scale, powerful in its abil- boyfriend had been commuting to visit me
I reach the pass, I am driving through a
in Los Angeles, where I was living at the
ity to dictate your daily life.
blizzard. The snow is coming down with
time, and the back and forth was taking
such dizzying density and speed that Im
And thats not only during winter. There
its toll. Whenever he had to miss his kids
unable to see more than a few feet in front
are dust storms here that brown out the
soccer games or a childrens theater producof mea complete whiteout. For long
sky, winds that pinball through valleys at
tion, he felt torn. I understood. Yet if you
stretches at a time, theres no shoulder on
hurricane speeds, and golf ballsized hail
had told me a decade earlier, when I was
I-90, so I cant pull over. Places where I
that descends without warning to pockmark living in New York City working as a magmight have stopped are already occupied by the roofs of houses and cars. Four sumazine editor, that I would someday move to
cavalcades of semitrucks whose experienced mers ago, my husband and I attended a
Montanaand for a manI would have
drivers knew immediately not to press on.
music festival in Paradise Valley, just south
scoffed, What a hilarious idea. If you had
NE SUNNY,
Morgan Phillips (2)
The last word

told me that by taking this leap of faith, I
would develop one of the most significant
and sustaining, though at times frustrating,
relationships of my lifewith natureI
would have laughed: Are you sure youve
got the right girl?
Im not the outdoorsy type. I hate swimming if it means I have to put my face in
the water. I hate getting dirty. I hate camping, obviously. (I tried it once, when I was a
teenager, and came home with lice.) Perhaps
because my middle-class Midwestern childhood was so relentlessly monotonous
a geography flat as a cardboard movie
set, a sky that covered the full palette of
grays, a high school with many windowless classroomsI developed an unabashed
love of glamour. Cities, art museums, pricey
restaurants, high-end department stores,
beautiful clothesI adore it all.
An essential detail of my childhood
is that much of it was spent at malls,
whetting this acquisitive appetite, but
without much to spend. The mall was
our lifeblood, our town square, and
our main source of entertainment.
During these mall-centric years, I spent
little time in nature. Until my early
30s, when I arrived in Montana, my
experience of the outdoors amounted
to climbing trees in neighborhood
yards, occasionally swimming in rivers
or lakes, and, the summer after sixth
grade, attending gymnastics camp in rural
Wisconsin (where I promptly acquired
18 mosquito bites on my face). Beyond
that, I can count on one hand the number
of times that nature and I communed.
I dont know how to account for my indifference to the Great Outdoors. I was a
bookish childmy grandmother was
always encouraging me to go outside with
the other kidsand calling my mother
overprotective is putting it lightly. But the
truth, though it pains me to write it, is that
I never thought about the natural world.
I dont remember ever feeling moved by
nature, not by a sparkling night sky, nor
the mournful elegance of a tree, nor the
hallucinatory colors of a sunset. The physical realmplants, animals, landscapesas
a phenomenon separate from the human
realm simply didnt exist for me.
N THE EARLY days after my big move,

to my great surprise, I was delighted by
Montana. I experienced a near-constant
state of awe. The sun-bleached, maizecolored hay fields against the arresting blue
sky: I had never seen this combination of
colors. It felt visually peaceful, hypnotic.
My instinct was to drive around and take it
all in. And the animals! Deer, grouse, magpies, meadowlarks, antelope, foxes, porcu-
pines, eagles, ospreys, bighorn sheep: They

enchanted me as though I were a child.
It did not take long, however, for me to
realize that my chief relationship with the
natural world would not be as a beholder
of it. When you live here, nature becomes a
part of every decision. Dealing with it is not
optional, a choice, like going to a park. Its
not uncommon to meet a grizzly bear, say,
on an afternoon hike. Or a rattlesnake, as
I did one summer afternoon while walking
through dry summer grasslands with two
friends visiting from New York City.
If this seems like a story about a city person
who finally becomes aware of the planet
she has always lived on, thats only partly
true. It is, on a deeper level, a story about
A common roadside sight
someone who prizes a certain mastery of her

environmenta control freak, if you must
coming to terms with the reality that great
swaths of life are beyond our power to dictate, and that this is terrifying and constraining and liberating and exhilarating, often all
at once. Its a story about how there are still
some places where nature is so extreme and
dramatic that it persists in pushing through
the cracks, forcing you to obey its rhythms,
and not the other way around.
Before I moved to Montana, the natural
world, with a few outlying exceptions
earthquakes, hurricanes, volcanoesalways
seemed tame to me, domesticated. We had
bent it to our will. Here it remains feral,
recalcitrant. It assaults you, demanding
that you confront your own fragility. All
Montanans are aware that you can set out
on a trip, errand, or hike, and your course
may veer wildly from your original intentions. Nature here is not benign or comforting, but prone to violence and caprice.
It disciplines you. You must contend with
it. But heres the truth Id avoided as conveniently as Id avoided nature: No matter where I was, a lot of life was beyond
human control. It took nature to shake me
out of the illusion that people have ultimate agency here on Earth, that everything
bends to our will.
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These days, I find myself doing the accommodating. In early July, summer is reaching
its climax. There are more than 16 hours
from sunup to sundown, and the long
days induce a kind of mania. The animals
are out foraging, eating, mating. The hills
and meadows are momentarily lush and
electric-green, as though someone decided
to plug in the scenery. The natural world is
sped up and active, and I, too, find myself
in a pleasant but useless state of euphoria:
unable to sleep, uninterested in work, full
of grandiose plansan environmentally
induced cocaine high.
By my third summer in Montana, I am
accustomed to the sharp upsurge of unfocused energy, the frenzied lassitude we
experience at this time of year. Early on, I
would go to a shop or restaurant only
to find that the proprietor had closed it
to fish, hike, or simply absorb a glorious summer day, and Id feel annoyed,
judgmental: Dont they want to make
money? Like a lot of people, Id
spent many of my adult summers in
a cubicle; I was used to ignoring the
seasons. I was also constitutionally
impatient, and accustomed to satisfying
any urge to buy or eat or do something
on demand. But now I know that during this short, fertile couple of months,
people are tending to their well-being
by hoarding their sunshine for the year.
Over time, living in Montana has pounded
into my consciousness the notion that no
matter how much we fight it, whether with
technology, our wills, or sheer denial, we
are natural beings subject to forces greater
than ourselves. Sometimes the natural
world takes your power, as it does deep in
February, when every fiber of your being
wants to hibernate. Sometimes it bestows
you with power you never imagined you
could possess, as it does during the peak of
summer, when you dont need much sleep,
and you feel like youre riding along with all
of the motions of the universe. Sometimes it
terrifies you with its awesome brutality.
Just as there are receptors in the brain for
drugs, I like to think we have receptors for
nature as well. We may believe we are run
by our thoughts and anxieties, our urges
and our choices, but come to a place like
Montana and you will be reminded that the
moon is running you. The sun is running
you. The light or lack of light is running
you. You are the full moon. You are the
rushing river. You are the animal, moving
and being moved.
Excerpted from an article that originally
appeared in Good Magazine. Reprinted
with permission.
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