Popular Elsewhere
15:19 UK time, Wednesday, 19 October 2011
A look at the stories ranking highly on various news sites.
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A picture paints a thousand words, as the saying goes. But, as a popular Guardian article says, people's interpretations can widely differ. The . Why it is so controversial is behind them a cloud of smoke and dust rises above lower Manhattan from the place where two towers were struck on 9/11. The picture has been analysed in the extreme to tell us what this tells us about the American psyche. Only that assumed leisurely pose the subjects take is questioned when one of the people in it spoke up and said they weren't sunbathing, as it appears, but in a profound state of shock.
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It's a hell of a (£126,989). So it's unsurprising Daily Mail readers are flocking to the story to find out how it was amassed. The story says Celina Aarons usually texted her brother a lot. But when he went over to Canada from Florida his charges went up to $10 a text (£6.32).
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NPR readers are finding out . Although Wendy Schmidt is giving away the money, it is only to the people who could come up with an invention to help with oil spillages. The article makes the winner's invention sound simple. "Oil is attracted to plastic. And water is not. That, in essence, is the basis of Elastec's new skimmer," it says. The device is described as looking like a massive abacus but clears up oil from water at 1,400 gallons of oil per minute faster than current tools.
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A bit of a contradictory story is proving popular with Huffington Post readers. The article complains of , while simultaneously going through the details of her death. After three paragraphs retelling the intricate details the question is asked: do we really need to know, and how do we justify knowing? Sam Parker says besides knowing the perpetrator has been punished, we don't need to know about the particulars. He means the minutiae like the unopened Christmas crackers in her flat, which the reader may not have known, ironically, until Parker pointed it out.
