From the Newsroom
Women in a Man's World — Andrew Sorkin, Dealbook (The New York Times)
“The women at the top of organizations that I know will tell you that we think that we’ve made it because we were born the way we are and can play by these rules without feeling damaged by them,” Ms. Dorner said. “Or, we’ve learned how to play by these rules and use them to our own advantage.”
Air Pollution Linked to 1.2 Million Premature Deaths in China — Edward Wong, The New York Times
'Occupy' Hong Kong, For Universal Suffrage — Didi Tatlow, IHT Rendezvous (The New York Times)
“We shall be like preachers communicating enthusiastically with different communities to convey universal values such as democracy, universal and equal suffrage, justice and righteousness,” he said, adding that protest leaders hope Hong Kong residents “will be willing to pay the price.”
-Dennis Ng, Photo Editor
Fake Facebook girlfriends: what's not to like? — Stuart Heritage, The Guardian
Why did I buy a fake Facebook girlfriend? Curiosity, mainly. Name me one red-blooded manwho wouldn't want to validate his neediness by paying a stranger of undetermined gender to send him hollow, misspelt platitudes on theinternet. You can't, can you?
-Richard Yu, Technology Director
The Secrets of Princeton — Ross Douthat, The New York Times
Her betrayal consists of being gauche enough to acknowledge publicly a truth that everyone who’s come up through Ivy League culture knows intuitively — that elite universities are about connecting more than learning, that the social world matters far more than the classroom to undergraduates, and that rather than an escalator elevating the best and brightest from every walk of life, the meritocracy as we know it mostly works to perpetuate the existing upper class.
-Don Casler, Opinion Editor
Meet the Man Who Sold His Fate to Investors at $1 a Share — Joshua Davis, Wired
Over the next 10 days, 12 of his friends and acquaintances bought 929 shares, and Merrill ended up with a handful of extra cash. He kept the remaining 99.1 percent of himself but promised that his shares would be nonvoting: He’d let his new stockholders decide what he should do with his life.
Yes, Healthy Fast Food Is Possible. But Edible? — Mark Bittman, The New York Times Magazine
Despite its flaws, Improved Fast Food is the transitional step to a new category of fast-food restaurant whose practices should be even closer to sustainable and whose meals should be reasonably healthful and good-tasting and inexpensive. (Maybe not McDonald’s-inexpensive, but under $10.) This new category is, or will be, Good Fast Food, and there are already a few emerging contenders.
Facebook Leans In — Kurt Eichenwald, Vanity Fair
As the meeting wrapped up, one board member called out that Facebook had hit a momentous occasion, one that had gone unnoticed: Mark Zuckerberg had just turned 25. The directors found the moment surreal; they all knew the improbable story of Facebook’s beginnings, but still marveled at how someone as young as Zuckerberg had risen to such prominence so fast by building a company that had basically started six years earlier as a joke.
-Leslie Ye, Dartbeat Editor
Anthony Weiner picked the wrong week — Richard Cohen, PostPartisan (The Washington Post)
But theIron Lady, no matter what you might think of her, offers a magisterial rebuke to Weiner,who attributes his asinine behaviorto the politician’s need to be liked. He is, he now says, not the attack dog he once was thought to be, but something of a slobbering Golden Retriever seeking some comforting words and a little tuck under the chin.
Terrified 'Newsroom' Writers Nodding Heads at Every Bad Idea Aaron Sorkin Says — The Onion
Before silently going back to work, sources confirmed that every writer in the room was privately thinking that if they only had the balls to stand up to Sorkin and fight for the fresh ideas and storytelling techniques they brought to the table they could make the show immeasurably better.
-Claire Groden, Evening Managing Editor
Corgis During College Admissions Season — Matt Ortile, BuzzFeed
"DID YOU HEAR BACK FROM YALE YET?!" "NO. DID YOU?!" "NO." "UGH." "UGH!" "I KNOW."
-Felicia Schwartz, Executive Editor
Roseanne Barr Is on Vine, and Her Vines Are the Best — Lindsey Weber, Vulture
While for some, Roseanne'sguest appearance onThe Officetonightis the first time they will have thought of her in a while, to some of us she really never left. The some of us that follow her on Vine, that is.Just as she did with Twitter, Roseanne has taken very nicely to the new social network that mixes video with GIFs and allows her to express herself in the truest fashion.
Man buys toy poodles, discovers they're actually ferrets on steroids — Dylan Stableford, Yahoo! News
The veterinarian informed him the ferrets "had been given steroids at birth to increase their size and then had some extra grooming to make their coats resemble a fluffy toy poodle," the paper says, translating a report from a local Argentine TV station. He paid $150 per poodle.
-Sharla Grass, Arts & Entertainment Editor