Cheat Sheet - This Book Will Make You Stop Watching Football

Today: Exclusive: How the State Department Escaped the Shutdown , Obama Calls Boehner , Fiery Explosions Rock NSA Data Center October 08, 2013 HIGH IMPACT 1. This Book Will Make You Stop Watching Football Are you a football fan? This book will change the way you view the NFL—and the price players pay for your enjoyment and dollars. Kevin Fixler on why he can't watch a game the same way anymore. Read it at The Daily Beast EXCLUSIVE 2. State Dept. Escapes the Shutdown From the CIA to Treasury, the government shutdown has crippled key national-security functions. But John Kerry's State Department appears to have been largely untouched. How'd that happen? The Daily Beast's Josh Rogin and Eli Lake report. Read it at The Daily Beast DIALOGUE 3. Obama Calls Boehner President Obama called House Speaker John Boehner on Tuesday, but don't get too excited about a deal being worked out: the president told Boehner that he will not negotiate. Obama "repeated what he told [Boehner] when they met at the White House last week," said a White House statement of the 10:45 a.m. call. Which is, the White House will not speak to Republicans until they end the shutdown and agree to raise the debt limit. House Republicans, meanwhile, have called for a "supercommittee" to negotiate, which New York Democratic Sen. Chuck Schumer immediately dismissed as a "gimmick" similar to the 2011 debt-ceiling compromise. Obama plans to speak at 2 p.m. Tuesday. Read it at USA Today 'MELT METAL' 4. Fiery Explosions Rock NSA Data Center Trouble in spying paradise. Massive electrical surges at a data-storage facility for the National Security Agency led to the destruction of hugely expensive machinery and delayed its opening for a year, officials revealed Tuesday. In the past 10 months alone, the facility has experienced 13 electrical surges, which officials describe as "a flash of lightning inside a 2-foot box." The melting metal that results from the fiery explosions causes the circuits to fail and prevents NSA workers from using the computers. A spokeswoman for the NSA insists, despite no clear culprit for the explosions, that the issues "have been mitigated." Read it at The Wall Street Journal BREAKTHROUGH 5. U.S. Scientists Come Closer to Nuclear Fusion Scientists at a California lab announced Tuesday that they had made a major breakthrough in the process of nuclear fusion, the process of harnessing the power of sun to make energy. Scientists at the National Ignition Facility used 192 beams from the world's most powerful laser to compress a small pellet of hydrogen fuel, causing more fuel to exceed the amount of fuel absorbed. This stopped just short of ignition, where nuclear fusion generates as much fuel as the lasers supply, due to "inefficiencies" in different parts of the system. But that doesn't mean this latest achievement isn't a breakthrough in the half-century search for nuclear fusion, which could drastically cut fuel costs. Read it at BBC News GOT US 'Prankvertising' Stunt Stuns New Yorkers Woman appears to have telekinetic powers. I Feel Ya How Reading Literature Makes You a Better Person Study says it improves empathy. RECOVERY Inhofe Feels 'Great' After Heart Surgery Had emergency quadruple bypass Friday. COMPETITION U.S. Workers Lag Behind in Skills For the modern workplace. the next generation 'Girl Declaration' Presented to U.N. With outline for post-2015 goals. Us Weekly Big Bang Theory Stars Before They Were Famous Condé Nast Traveler LA's Hottest Neighborhood Right Now Wonderwall Celebrity Rebound Couples GET The Cheat Sheet A speedy, smart summary of news and must-reads from across the Web. You'll love the featured original stories on politics, entertainment, and more from The Daily Beast's diverse group of contributors. GET Culture Beast Weekly cultural recommendations from The Daily Beast. When Glamour Was Born by Lori-Lee Emshey The Ending of 'Gravity,' Explained by Marlow Stern Scalia and the Devil by Candida Moss

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