--- title: Morning Must Reads: October 27 description: N.Y. Eases Ebola Quarantine Rules Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced Sunday that New York is loosening its quarantine guidelines for health care workers who return from... canonical: https://time.com/3540980/morning-must-reads-october-27/ author: TIME Staff article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-10-27T11:10:32.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-21T11:01:20.100Z article:section: Politics og:title: Morning Must Reads: October 27 og:description: N.Y. Eases Ebola Quarantine Rules Gov. 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Andrew Cuomo announced Sunday that New York is loosening its quarantine guidelines for health care workers who return from treating Ebola patients in West Africa, following pushback from public-health groups and the White House [The Science Behind Good Looks](http://time.com/3536451/masculinity-not-always-most-attractive/) A new study in _Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences_ challenges the notion that women necessarily prefer masculine-looking men [Wash. School-Shooting Victim Dies](http://time.com/3540899/girl-wounded-in-washington-school-shooting-dies/) A 14-year-old girl who was wounded Friday when a student opened fire inside a Washington State high school has died, raising the death toll to three [RiteAid and CVS Block Apple Pay](http://time.com/3540848/riteaid-cvs-block-apple-pay/) Apple’s attempt to revolutionize the way people pay for things hit a roadblock over the weekend, with retail chains CVS and RiteAid disabling Apple Pay across their stores. The move is reportedly part of an effort by companies to develop their own pay system [Giants Beat Royals 5-0, Lead World Series 3-2](http://time.com/3540737/bumgarner-giants-blank-royals-for-3-2-series-lead/) Madison Bumgarner put the San Francisco Giants just one win away from yet another championship, throwing a four-hitter to beat the Kansas City Royals 5-0 on Sunday night for a 3-2 World Series edge. The Series now heads to Kansas City [Find the Perfect Taylor Swift Lyric for Your Mood](http://time.com/3537573/taylor-swift-1989-lyrics-generator/) To honor her new album, _1989_ — which encompasses joy, regret, lust, nostalgia and everything in between — TIME created this interactive lyric generator that spans her entire catalog. Select the adjective that best describes your current mood, and then let Taylor’s words help you _really_ feel it [Chocolate May Help With Memory Loss](http://time.com/3540703/cocoa-memory-loss-flavanols-aging-hippocampus/) A new study finds that flavanols, a component of cocoa, can reverse at least one aspect of memory loss associated with normal aging. Studies have shown that cocoa flavanols help keep blood vessels supple over time, and researchers think this happens in the brain [Cardinals Outfielder Oscar Taveras Dies in Crash](http://time.com/3540760/oscar-taveras-dies-car-crash-st-louis-cardinals/) The 22-year-old baseball player lost control of his Chevrolet Camaro on a highway about 215 miles from Santo Domingo, the capital of his native Dominican Republic. Taveras’ girlfriend, named as 18-year-old Edilia Arvelo, also died [Death Toll in Syrian Town Passes 800, Activists Say](http://time.com/3540309/kobani-death-toll-over-800-syria-isis/) A Syrian activist group said on Sunday the death toll in 40 days of fighting in and around the northern Syrian border town of Kobani has reached 815, as Kurdish fighters battled militants of the Islamic State of Iraq and Greater Syria for a hill west of the town [Lake Bell Welcomes First Child](http://time.com/3540665/lake-bell-scott-campbell-first-child/) Actress Lake Bell, of _In A World…_, has given birth to a daughter. She and her artist husband Scott Campbell have neither released a name, nor any other details. Bell announced she was expecting in April, after attending the Tribeca Film Festival with a baby bump [Gunman in Canada Attack Prepared Video of Himself](http://time.com/3540655/gunman-in-canada-attack-prepared-video-of-himself/) A gunman who shot and killed a soldier at Canada’s national war memorial in Ottawa and then stormed Parliament before he was gunned down had prepared a video recording of himself, which police say shows he was driven by ideological and political motives [U.S. Loses First Soldier in ISIS Fight](http://time.com/3540044/first-marine-death-iraq-isis/) The Pentagon announced on Friday that Marine Lance Corporal Sean Neal, 19, died in Baghdad during a noncombat incident on Thursday. 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