• Where do black market boner pills come from? NPR investigates.
• Force-feeding is a form of torture, but U.S. prisons still do it. Ann Neumann chronicles the longest prison hunger strike in U.S. history. 
• Before Sandy, Mayor Bloomberg proposed a registry of New York City’s most vulnerable residents, to help first responders find them in a disaster, but the database was never compiled.
• A superintendent at the Upper Big Branch Mine who ordered an electrician to disable critical safety equipment before the explosion that killed 29 miners was sentenced to 21 months in prison and a $20,000 fine. [HT: Bruce] 
• The most famous dead girlfriend in college football history never existed, Deadspin reports. 

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