 Why did Lorelei choose to not keep up with the news for herself?
The ship would be filled with the sounds of busy men and women, wresting secrets from the reluctant ether. They have treated us precisely as we, in less enlightened days, might have treated a newly-discovered race of lower animals. Not only our individual lives are threatened, but our existence as a race. It was only two stories down the moving ramp to Lorelei Cooper's laboratory. It was a street scene in the Science City of Manhattan, flooded by the warm spring sunshine. Down on the lowest level, visible past the transport and passenger tubes, the parks and moving ways should have been dotted with colorful, holiday crowds.
 She found it to be depressing or boring.
 Peter always kept her informed well enough.  She didn't care enough to know the news.  She found it to be depressing or boring.  She didn't have time to keep up with current events.