Overnight Briefing & General Reality Check - Mar 20, 2017

Monday (03-20):

Was it that long ago? Anniversaries: 101 years ago! ALBERT EINSTEIN published his Theory of Relativity, 1916.

Getting up to speed... or not:

Another dead person has been found riding a NYC subway train.
   A 24-year-old was taken to the hospital after passengers on an "A" train notified transit cops at a stop in Brooklyn Heights that he was unconscious. He was later declared dead at the hospital. This is the fourth person found dead on board a train in recent weeks... police say none of the deaths are suspicious.

Another @$#%* Press Release:

A new public service announcement is making a big splash online. LAUREN POTTER of "Glee" fame stars in the ad, which pokes fun at the term "special needs" in regard to those with Down syndrome and asks do they need to wear a suit of armor, eat dinosaur eggs or massaged by a cat? Yep, all of these things are definitely special needs, but most people with 47 chromosomes simply need food, water, to breathe, sleep, be loved, educated, sheltered and nurtured like everyone else on Earth!
   The movement points out that the term segregates and excludes, stigmatizes people and points out a better option could be "differently-abled" or having "additional needs."

Fashion Emergency:

You can smell like VLADIMIR PUTIN now. Because 2017 is just that weird. The New York Postsays the Russian president launched his own perfume for women who "admire" the Russian leader. The scent is on sale at a Moscow department store overlooking Red Square. But Vlad fans will have to hurry to grab a bottle, as only 1,500 have been produced. The fragrance is called Russian Woman. It costs up to $180. The perfume maker MAXIM FOMICHEV said, "Our president is very courageous, a true leader. Russia, as a woman, is standing behind her leader." (Bartha)