1.Three sons of a kitchen hand who died in the September 11 attacks lived their lives in poverty because they did not know they were entitled to a $1 million compensation payment.
The New York Post reports that the three boys have lived in public housing and struggled with the most basic expenses since their Dad died when terrorists attacked the Twin Towers, where their father, John Holland, was working in the kitchen of the restaurant known as Windows on the World.
The boys – Ty-Shawn Ward, Trent Ward and Dujon Holland —did not know they were entitled to funds from the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund.
The money was set aside for their education but apparently never sent.
A lawyer Salvatore Giliberto found the money in 2013, and the brothers have now taken possession.
“These were three young men living in public housing that could’ve certainly used the money,” Giliberto told The Post.
He blasted court officials for never notifying the boys in the following years that the money was still there.
“If you can’t find three guys, then you probably can’t find the five fingers on your right hand,” Giliberto said.
2.Are you one of those women who sits at your desk feeling absolutely freezing?
Science has come up with the reason you’re so cold.
The New York Times reports that office temperatures were set more than 60 years ago, with a 40-year-old man in a shirt, tie and jacket as their guide.
That might have been fine in the 1950s and 1960s but women today make up half the workforce and their metabolism is different. Plus, they wear shirts and sandals, often without socks.
A study, published Monday in the journal Nature Climate Change, says that “most office buildings set temperatures based on a decades-old formula that uses the metabolic rates of men.”
It says women “usually have slower metabolic rates than men, mostly because they are smaller and have more body fat, which has lower metabolic rates than muscle.”
The report says that women who like to show their cleavage are also at a disadvantage.
“The cleavage is closer to the core of the body, so the temperature difference between the air temperature and the body temperature there is higher when it’s cold,’ the reports says.
3.Comedian and actress Amy Schumer has called for tighter gun control following a shooting of 12 people in a movie theatre where her new film, Trainwreck, was showing.
Schumer, whose cousin Chuck Schumer is a US lawmaker, wants new measures to make it harder for violent criminals and the mentally ill to obtain guns. He has asked her to help him promote the campaign for tighter controls.
Two women died and nine others were injured during the Trainwreck shooting. She Tweeted that she was heartbroken.
Senator Schumer will call on Congress to assist in the campaign.
4.The Austrian pole vaulter who suffered a spinal injury while preparing for a jump has begun breathing on her own.
NPR reports that Kira Grunberg has fractured at least one of her cervical vertebrae and is unlikely to walk again.
She is 21, and Austria’s top pole vaulter.
Her parents were present at Thursday’s training session, in which she fell and hit her head after attempting what her manager said was “a normal practice jump.”
