Philippines: An international relief effort is having trouble getting to storm devastated areas of the Philippines. Thousands of people are dead and food and water scarce. The city of Tacloban is essentially leveled.

  The Philippine Daily Inquirer quotes a schoolteacher named Andrew Pomeda saying, “Some people are losing their minds from hunger or from losing their families. People are becoming violent. They are looting business establishments, the malls, just to find food. I’m afraid that in one week, people will be killing from hunger.”

The head of the Philippine Red Cross told the BBC, “It’s absolute bedlam right now, but hopefully it will turn out better as more and more supplies get into the area.” It often takes more than a week, and sometimes two weeks, for meaningful help to reach remote areas affected by a disaster like this.

The diminished storm reached Vietnam near the China border yesterday. Under a threat of flooding the Vietnamese government evacuated 600,000 people. Eleven deaths have already been reported.

Banned: An organization for 40,000 Pakistani private schools banned the book I Am Malala, by Malala Yousafzai, the teenage girl shot in the head by the Taliban for promoting education for girls. The AP reports that the leader of the organization said, “Through this book, she became a tool in the hands of the Western powers.”

Burned: The sleek European satellite nicknamed the “Ferrari of space” fell out of orbit late Sunday and burned on re-entry. An estimated 25% of the remains reached the earth’s surface. The one-ton satellite was only a fraction of the 100-150 tons of man made objects that fall from space every year.

Special Delivery: The US Postal Service, which tried to end Saturday mail deliveries, made a deal with Amazon.com to deliver the company’s packages on Sundays. Delivering the mail is a loser for the postal service, which lost $16 billion last year, but packages are profitable. Amazon deliveries, which start next Sunday, will be limited to New York and Los Angeles this Christmas season.

PG-13: Movies rated PG-13 were actually more violent than R-rated movies in 2012, according to a study published in the journal Pediatrics. And the PG-13 flicks were three times more violent than in the 1980s when the category was created. The article’s authors say it’s a concern because researchers believe depictions of violence can increase aggressive behavior in children.

The Roundup: Suspended Miami Dolphin Richie Incognito said his racist threats to a fellow player were “coming from a place of love”; Miley Cyrus pulled her tongue back into her mouth briefly to light up a joint at the European Music Awards; Tom Cruise admitted that his wife left him to protect their daughter from Scientology.

T.M.I: More colleges are looking at their applicants’ social media sites to see what kind of kids they really are, according to a new study by Kaplan Test Prep. About 29% of colleges have Googled applicants and 31% checked Facebook and other social sites. That’s up from 10% in 2008. So, you remember that picture of you playing beer pong when you were a sophomore in high school?

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