By Anemonia Hartocollis and Nina Bernstein, New York Times, Nov. 1/2, 2012
[....] By 9 p.m. Monday, the hospital was on backup power, and an hour later, the basement was flooded.
Officials rushed to move the most critically ill patients closer to an emergency generator. After midnight, doctors heard shouts in the hallway. The basement fuel pumps had stopped working, and medical residents, nurses and administrators formed a bucket brigade to ferry fuel up 13 flights to the main backup generators.
By Ian Johnson, New York Times, Oct .31/Nov. 1, 2012
BEIJING — At 30, Chen Kuo had what many Chinese dream of: her own apartment and a well-paying job at a multinational corporation. But in mid-October, Ms. Chen boarded a midnight flight for Australia to begin a new life with no sure prospects.
By Rory Carroll in Boulder, guardian.co.uk, Nov. 1, 2012
Libertarian maverick's message of small government and social tolerance thrills young voters and threatens president's hopes
[....] The maverick Johnson remains barely known to most ordinary Americans but is expected to take votes from Obama – and Mitt Romney – in Colorado on the back of enthusiasm for a separate vote on November 6 over whether to legalise marijuana.
WASHINGTON — Security officers from the C.I.A. played a pivotal role in combating militants who attacked the American diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, on Sept. 11, deploying a rescue party from a secret base in the city, sending reinforcements from Tripoli, and organizing an armed Libyan military convoy to escort the surviving Americans to hastily chartered planes that whisked them out of the country, senior intelligence officials said Thursday.
By Julian Borger, guardian.co.uk, October 31, 2012
US military commanders have warned their Israeli counterparts that any action against Iran would severely limit the ability of American forces in the region to mount their own operations against the Iranian nuclear programme by cutting off vital logistical support from Gulf Arab allies.
By Marc Santora, New York Times, October 30/31, 2012
Never before has the divide between uptown and downtown in Manhattan been starker. Or darker.
On Tuesday, as New Yorkers coped with their first post-Hurricane Sandy night without power, the dividing line between north and south in the city was 25th Street.
New York Times' "Tracking the Storm Live Updates Section," October 30, 2012, 12:21pm
Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey took an unscheduled break from partisan attacks on the President Obama on Tuesday to praise him, repeatedly and effusively, for leading the federal government’s response to the storm.
“Wonderful,” “excellent” and “outstanding” were among the adjectives Mr. Christie chose, a change-up from his remarks last week that Mr. Obama was “blindly walking around the White House looking for a clue.”
By Kevin Roose, Daily Intel @ nymag.com, October 26, 2012
[....] here are photos from the New York launch of Microsoft's Surface tablets and its Windows 8 operating system yesterday, which appear to show sentient, well-informed humans in a state of excitement about Microsoft's new products: [....]
By Robert F. Worth, New York Times, October 20/21, 2012
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — Saudi Arabia did not have an Arab Spring. But it has had a revolution of sorts.
Open criticism of this country’s royal family, once unheard-of, has become commonplace in recent months. Prominent judges and lawyers issue fierce public broadsides about large-scale government corruption and social neglect. Women deride the clerics who limit their freedoms. Even the king has come under attack.
Radio Free Europe/Radio Free Liberty, October 22, 2012
Georgia's missing acting Defense Minister Dimitri Shashkin has announced that he decided to leave the country.
Shashkin said via his Facebook account on October 22 that he hoped to return to Georgia someday. He said he left Georgia because his viewpoints do not coincide with those politicians who won the parliamentary elections on October 1. Shashkin also called on his colleagues and friends "not to believe unbelievable stories" about him that may emerge soon. [.....]
Editor's note: All week on the NewsHour's health page, we'll continue to explore why the U.S. health care system is so expensive and what can be done to fix it
This first piece is very good start, in my opinion; beginning excerpt:
How much is good health care worth to you? $8,233 per year? That's how much the U.S. spends per person.
By Richard Florida, Atlantic Cities, October 23, 2012
[....] In March 2009, I wrote a piece for The Atlantic outlining the likely effects of the crisis on America’s economic landscape. Several years into the crisis, I wanted to look at how the crisis might have affected the geography of finance across America.
[.....] Surprised to see Public Administration preferring Romney? I was too. Republicans tend to prefer smaller government and few public jobs, besides the military. But it's precisely the military that moves this industry into the red column. "Military and national security jobs are included in that industry," said PayScale's Katie Bardaro. "Other public admin jobs like local legislature were split 50/50, while public defenders and local courts leaned Democratic."
