PLATT - MISC News

GENERAL INTEREST
Italian town puts dozens of homes on market for as little as €1 
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jan/17/italian-town-sambuca-sicily-dozens-homes-for-sale-one-euro?utm_term=RWRpdG9yaWFsX0d1YXJkaWFuVG9kYXlVUy0xOTAxMTg%3D&utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=GuardianTodayUS&CMP=GTUS_email

News Quiz: Test Your Knowledge of the Week’s Headlines (8 out of 11)
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/01/18/briefing/18weeklynewsquiz.html?emc=edit_nn_p_20190118&nl=morning-briefing&nlid=58935408section%3DwhatElse&section=whatElse&te=1&mtrref=undefined&gwh=D06539CB42E0F60DA254696655C4CBD9&gwt=pay

Did you solve it? Catriona's colorful conundrums 
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2019/jan/14/did-you-solve-it-catrionas-colourful-conundrums

2018 ended with Heaven’s Gate being run for the first time!
https://www.facebook.com/1646204248960744/posts/2018-ended-with-heavens-gate-being-run-for-the-first-time/2199334853647678/

WELLNESS
Now you can rent a grandchild for chores and rides
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/now-you-can-rent-a-grandchild-for-chores-and-rides-2019-01-18

SPORTS
The ripple effect of Eric Berry
http://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/25770102/the-ripple-effect-eric-berry

CULTURE
Generation Z Looks a Lot Like Millennials on Key Social and Political Issues
http://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2019/01/17/generation-z-looks-a-lot-like-millennials-on-key-social-and-political-issues/

We Need To Retoxify Masculinity 
https://townhall.com/columnists/kurtschlichter/2019/01/17/we-need-to-retoxify-masculinity-n2539123

Ex-Navy SEAL Jocko Willink: 'Toxic masculinity' and the powerful dichotomy of being a man 
https://start.att.net/news/read/category/news/article/fox_news-exnavy_seal_jocko_willink_toxic_masculinity_and_th-rfoxnews

ARCHAEOLOGY
Is Ancient DNA Research Revealing New Truths — or Falling Into Old Traps?
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/17/magazine/ancient-dna-paleogenomics.html?emc=edit_nn_p_20190118&nl=morning-briefing&nlid=58935408section%3DlongRead&section=longRead&te=1

TECHNOLOGY
Autoland: When pilots can't see the runway
https://start.att.net/news/read/article/cnn-autoland_when_pilots_cant_see_the_runway-cnn2/category/news

CYBER SECURITY
FBI records, emails, Social Security numbers exposed in huge data leak
https://nypost.com/2019/01/17/fbi-records-emails-social-security-numbers-exposed-in-huge-data-leak/?utm_campaign=iosapp&utm_source=mail_app

Android users' private tweets were exposed for more than FOUR YEARS without their knowledge after they changed the email linked to their Twitter account
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-6606377/Twitter-bug-exposed-Android-users-private-tweets-FOUR-YEARS.html

FOREIGN POLICY
Pressure mounts for Trump to reconsider Syria withdrawal
https://thehill.com/policy/defense/425943-mounting-pressure-for-trump-to-reconsider-syria-withdrawal?userid=288549

White House: Second Trump-Kim summit coming next month
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/426060-white-house-second-trump-kim-summit-coming-next-month?userid=288549

DEFENSE
Meet the bomber the US is sending to crush ISIS
https://www.cnet.com/pictures/the-b-52-bomber-turns-60-photos/?&ftag=ACQ-00-10aaj4g&adid=34226402638&vndid=AT%26T_PORTAL

LAW AND ORDER
Man claims 11-year-old got pregnant from his clothes
https://nypost.com/2019/01/17/man-claims-11-year-old-got-pregnant-from-his-clothes/?utm_campaign=iosapp&utm_source=mail_app

IMMIGRATION
An Island for ‘Unwanted’ Migrants Is Denmark’s Latest Aggressive Anti-Immigrant Policy
http://time.com/5504331/denmark-migrants-lindholm-island/

THE WALL
Trump’s Border Wall Is a Political MacGuffin 
https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/01/trump-border-wall-government-shutdown-politics-entertainment/

TRUMPGATE
Mueller’s office disputes report that claimed Trump ordered Cohen to lie to Congress
https://nypost.com/2019/01/18/muellers-office-disputes-report-that-claimed-trump-ordered-cohen-to-lie-to-congress/?utm_campaign=iosapp&utm_source=mail_app

POLITICS
James Woods calls Ocasio-Cortez ‘the most dangerous person in America’
https://nypost.com/2019/01/18/james-woods-calls-ocasio-cortez-the-most-dangerous-person-in-america/?utm_campaign=iosapp&utm_source=mail_app

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"You must never confuse faith that you will prevail in the end – 
which you can never afford to Lose – with the discipline to confront
the most brutal facts of your current reality, whatever they might be."
        - VAdm James Stockdale, USN (1923-2005)