Popular Elsewhere
A look at the stories ranking highly on various news sites.
A Massachusetts university president has according to a popular Boston Globe story. The article says over the years, the combination of heavy drinking and running has led to broken bones and altercations with the police. When justifying the ban Lawrence Bacow said "the only question is whether a student has to die first. We cannot allow this to happen.'' But the students expressed disappointment that the December run will finish as it has become a bonding session before the final exam crunch.
Wired magazine's most popular story says Aaron Tobey, 21, wrote an abbreviated version of the Fourth Amendment on his body and stripped to his shorts at an airport security screening area. He had written "Amendment 4: The right of the people to be secure against unreasonable searches and seizures" on his chest in marker pen. He says he was handcuffed and held for about 90 minutes by the Transportation Security Administration at the Richmond International Airport after he began removing his clothing to display on his protest.
Ed West asks in the Telegraph's most read story . He points out this is quite unusual among human cultures and doesn't know why the Japanese display altruism even in adversity. This belief is backed up by the example of the 2007 floods in the West Country where abandoned cars were broken into and free packs of bottled water were stolen. Then there was looting in Chile after the earthquake last year - so much so that troops were sent in. And in New Orleans, Hurricane Katrina saw looting on a "shocking" scale.
Slate magazine's most read story asks . This is the memorabilia collected through your juvenile years. Jessica Grose explains that in theory she accepted the necessity of throwing away spelling tests and book reports dating back to the mid-'80s but in practice, it didn't quite play out so smoothly:
"My psychiatrist mother watched my struggle with a bemused detachment. She didn't say so, but I suspect that if we had talked about it, she would have told me that I was experiencing a textbook case of displacement: I was really upset about letting my childhood go, but I was unleashing all that emotion on the concrete act of cleaning out my bedroom."
Proving popular on al-Jazeera's site is a story about the . It says cyber operations have been going on for a long while and the private sector has been "only too ready to fill the cyber mercenary role for piles of cash". The story of a big money attempt to infiltrate a group of hackers called Anonymous which failed and led to the infiltrator's online accounts being wiped out. This, it is argued, is an illustration of the asymmetric nature of cyber warfare.
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