Ebola's recent decline

1. Ending Ebola Ebola diagnoses are "halving every 10 days in Guinea, every 14 days in Liberia, and every 19 days in Sierra Leone." [Vox / Julia Belluz] Sierra Leone is easing travel restrictions within the country as the situation improves. [AFP] The first ever clinical trial of potential Ebola vaccines is expected to begin in Liberia in about two weeks. [NYT / Andrew Pollack] All that said, "there are still pockets of intense transmission and hard-to-reach rural areas that aren't being tended to," and it's still too early to declare the epidemic over. [Vox / Julia Belluz] 2. Misc. The late Saudi King Abdullah is being celebrated in the Western press as a "reformer." Bullshit. [Vox / Zack Beauchamp] The "Don't pull the thang out, unless you plan to bang" theory of monetary policy. [NY Mag / Annie Lowrey] Just over 50 percent of Americans — and almost 80 percent of Democrats — want single-payer health insurance. [The Hill / Sarah Ferris] Meet Kate McKean, the literary agent who makes meme creators into published, income-earning authors. [Daily Dot via Washington Post / Miles Klee] There's an Iraqi insurgent equivalent to American Sniper's Chris Kyle: the (possibly apocryphal) Juba. [Washington Post / Adam Taylor] 3. Verbatim "She says their prenup obligated her to reach a certain level in Scientology." [Business Insider / Aaron Gell] "After being the only girl in bands for 10 years, I learned — the hard way — that if I was going to get my ideas through, I was going to have to pretend that they — men — had the ideas." [Björk to Pitchfork / Jessica Hopper] “This is a Navy SEAL who we trained to be a killer of bad terrorists. He’s not going to walk around using the Queen’s English!” [Megyn Kelly to NYT / Jim Rutenberg] "In 2010, only about 15 percent of new marriages were interracial … Based on random matching alone, the expected proportion of interracial relationships in the United States should be as high as 44 percent." [The Kernel / Aaron Sankin] Read the latest Vox Sentences here!

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