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...little old lady reading the paper with her arthritic hands, a cello in the background. The next morning, we get a driver's seat view of that cello, winding its way through the newsroom in a mail cart to be deposited in front of Lopez with a note that would do Paddington Bear justice, bequeathing it to Ayers. Downey's eyebrows arch in pleased surprise. He's earned his paycheck and a psychic reward. There are very few other professions that can claim to give you that...
...study to examine whether murder-suicide (as opposed to suicide alone) is associated with copycat crimes. That study, published 20 years ago, analyzed the impact of media coverage of mass murders and murder-suicides between 1968 and 1980. The study found no associated increase in homicide rates, but did note an uptick in suicide after well-publicized events. "There was a significant increase in national monthly suicide rates," he said, "It is a fairly substantial association and was independent of major control variables like the unemployment rate...
...management put on mourning clothes for their earnings call. Revenue fell a little over 18%, which was closer to Yahoo!'s drop than champions of Internet advertising would like. Advertising revenue killed the newspaper company's sales by dropping 27%, to $335 million. Fans of paying for content will note that subscriber revenue was up 1%, to $229 million, but that money came from people buying physical papers and not online content. (See 25 people to blame for the financial crisis...
Editor’s Note: This article required gender-neutral pronouns. FM form follows the grammatical rules outlined in Kate Bornstein’s “My Gender Workbook.” E.g. “Ze likes hirself untucked...
...same memos, the Justice Department did note that forced sleep deprivation, when used in conjunction with other techniques, had been called torture in the past, both by the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals (in a lawsuit about human-rights violations in the Philippines) and the U.N., on multiple occasions. Nonetheless, the Justice Department memos concluded that the use of prolonged sleep deprivation "cannot be expected to cause 'severe mental pain or suffering,' " as defined by U.S. criminal...