THE EDITORIALISTS HAVE SPOKEN: WILL VOTERS LISTEN?

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- The Editorialists Have Spoken; Will Voters Listen? (NYT) "The Atlantic magazine has made only two presidential endorsements in its 159-year history: one for Abraham Lincoln in 1860 and one for Lyndon B. Johnson in 1964. The third comes Wednesday afternoon, when the magazine posted an editorial endorsing Hillary Clinton for president and dismissing Donald J. Trump as 'the most ostentatiously unqualified major-party candidate in the 227-year history of the American presidency.' For good measure, it calls him 'a demagogue, a xenophobe, a sexist, a know-nothing and a liar.'"

EDITORIAL:

- A President Trump could destroy the world economy (WaPo)

HEALTH:

- What’s the Longest Humans Can Live? 115 Years, New Study Says (NYT) "The shift toward growth in ever-older populations started slowing in the 1980s; about a decade ago, it stalled. This might have occurred, Dr. Vijg and his colleagues said, because humans finally have hit an upper limit to their longevity. In 1968, the oldest age attained was 111. By the 1990s, that figure had increased to around 115. But then this trend stopped, too. With rare exceptions like Mrs. Calment, no one has lived beyond 115 years."

- As Drug Deaths Soar, a Silver Lining for Transplant Patients (NYT) "Because doctors can use multiple organs from each person, these 69 deceased drug users saved the lives of 202 other people, according to the organ bank. Nationwide, more than 790 deceased drug users have donated organs this year, accounting for about 12 percent of all donations. That is more than double the 340 drug users who donated in 2010, or about 4 percent of the total, the organ bank said."

- Intimacy for rent: Inside the business of paid cuddling (Quartz)

- A Letter to the Doctors and Nurses Who Cared for My Wife (NYT)

SCIENCE:

- The 2016 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, explained in 500 words (Vox)

SPORTS:

- High school teams in Washington are forfeiting rather than play school with NFL-sized talent (WaPo)

TECHNOLOGY:

- Facebook is talking to the White House about giving you ‘free’ Internet. Here’s why that may be controversial. (WaPo)

- Mossberg: How Google’s bold moves shake up the tech industry (Re/code)

BOTTOM OF THE NEWS:

- Think Getting a Boot On Your Car Sucks? Get Ready for the Barnacle. (Wired)

- Honeycrisp was just the beginning: inside the quest to create the perfect apple (VoX)

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