New York Times: Entrepreneurial Egyptians are using illegal tunnels for smuggling between Egypt and the West Bank, but not for the reasons you'd expect: They're bringing KFC chicken across the border into Palestine, where isolation from the rest of the world "can create an intense longing for what those outside Gaza see as mundane, or ordinary." The chicken—a 12-piece bucket goes for about $27—arrives soggy, the fries long cold, but the deliveries give customers a sense of empowerment and connection to the outside world. ­— Erica Barnett

Newsweek: The newly redesigned, web-only Newsweek asks: "Would you eat a bug to save the world?" Bugs are high in protein, vitamins, omega-3s, and fiber, and raising them is way less harmful to the environment than methane-belching, greenhouse-gas-producing meat production. One hitch: They're really gross. Thankfully, Seattle author David George Gordon comes to the rescue with The Eat-a-Bug Cookbook. You haven't lived until you've tried his tempura-fried tarantula. —Katherine Koberg

ESPN: So, pro golfer Luke Donald won a tournament in Japan, yada yada yada sports, and one of his prizes was a fancy, tasty Miyazaki cow. Trying to ship it to the US produced some major red tape, so Donald did what any pro golfer with a live $80,000 luxury beef cow stuck in Japan would do—he called Chicago chef Grant Achatz’s partner, Nick Kokonas, to see if he could help. Kokonas in turn called Shane Lindsay, head of Lynnwood company Northwest Earth and Ocean. Hence a local boy ultimately “became the point person between Donald's cow acquisition team” and its Japanese counterparts. — Allecia Vermillion

Wall Street Journal: You’ve seen them in the grocery isles, and you’ve probably added one to your water bottle at some point. Now, individually packaged sweeteners for water are being guzzled at an all-time high, and are targeting consumers who are "too bored" with water to drink it. And even though bottled water is a 4,000 percent markup (Did you know it takes five bottles of water to make the plastic for one? I didn’t) bottles – and countless flavors – are flying off the shelves as the masses are giddily realizing that they can drink a zero-calorie, flavorful beverage without ever purchasing a can of soda. But will this really effective marketing strategy actually get Americans to drink more water? How about save money? Calories? Furthermore, what do we call this? Sparkling Ice CEO Kevin Klock puts it great, “We are not water, but we are not soda.”  Um, okay. — Rachel Breiwick