1. HELLO, 2014
Yes, it’s New Year’s Eve again: Time to bust out the Champagne and make resolutions you probably won’t keep.But this year’s different. Cities around the world will host some of the most amazing celebrations ever. Edible confetti raining over London? Check. How about 400,000 pyrotechnics exploding over Dubai? Got that, too. And let’s not forget that the new year also means bizarre new laws. In Oregon, mothers will be allowed to take their placentas home from the hospital. And thousands of companies will have to provide calorie counts for products sold in vending machines.
The crew of a ship stuck in the ice near the South Pole may ring in the new year in some of the coldest weather on Earth. Rescue ships have not made it through to them, and it may take a while before helicopters fly in to pick up all 74 people. Everyone seems fine so far. And it’s almost worth not being rescued just yet to be able to tell the story of where they rang in 2014 to their grandchildren.
2. JAHI McMATH
Reprieve: Yesterday was a close call for Jahi McMath’s family. It looked like the brain dead girl’s hospital might take her off life support, but a judge changed his mind about that. He had originally given doctors permission to disconnect her in the evening, but he extended the order until a week from today. To doctors, the 13-year-old died when her brain did and needs to be let go. To her family, she’s alive as long as her heart’s beating. They say she’s giving them little signs of life, like hand gestures. They plan to fight for her to the last breath.
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