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Month: November 2013

Inside the Race to Rescue a Health Care Site, and Obama

November 30, 2013 sean Uncategorized

http://nyti.ms/IzLuLd WASHINGTON — As a small coterie of grim-faced advisers shuffled into the Oval Office on the evening of Oct. 15, President Obama’s chief domestic

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Brain Cells ‘Geotag’ Memories To Cache What Happened — And Where

November 29, 2013 sean Uncategorized

by Jon Hamilton NPR – November 28, 2013 Think back to an important event in your life: a graduation, a birth, a special Thanksgiving dinner.

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Conservative Groups Would Take Hit From New IRS Rules

November 29, 2013 sean Uncategorized

by Frank James NPR – November 27, 2013 The new U.S. Treasury/Internal Revenue Service rules aimed at clarifying what constitutes political activity for tax-exempt “social

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Art Makes You Smart

November 25, 2013 sean Uncategorized

 FOR many education advocates, the arts are a panacea: They supposedly increase test scores, generate social responsibility and turn around failing schools. Most of the

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Your Brain on Poverty: Why Poor People Seem to Make Bad Decisions – Atlantic Mobile

November 23, 2013 sean Uncategorized

http://m.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2013/11/your-brain-on-poverty-why-poor-people-seem-to-make-bad-decisions/281780/ Your Brain on Poverty: Why Poor People Seem to Make Bad Decisions Shoppers at a food pantry. (Reuters) In August, Science published a landmark

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How Republicans Rig the Game | Politics | Rolling Stone

November 22, 2013 sean Uncategorized

http://m.rollingstone.com/politics/news/how-republicans-rig-the-game-20131111 How Republicans Rig the Game As the nation recovers from the Republican shutdown of government, the question Americans should be asking is not “Why

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Night Falls, and 5Pointz, a Graffiti Mecca, Is Whited Out in Queens

November 20, 2013 sean Uncategorized

http://nyti.ms/1aE29X8 Some artists called it a mass desecration, but the buildings’ owner, Jerry Wolkoff, said he would erect a wall where painters could work again.

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Latest Release of Documents on N.S.A. Includes 2004 Ruling on Email Surveillance

November 19, 2013 sean Uncategorized

http://nyti.ms/17iOvIB WASHINGTON — The Obama administration released hundreds of pages of newly declassified documents related to National Security Agency surveillance late Monday, including an 87-page

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A Cold War Fought by Women

November 19, 2013 sean Uncategorized

http://nyti.ms/18iMTPP New evidence shows that female aggression helps explain peer pressure to meet standards of physical appearance and sexual conduct. How aggressive is the human

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States Aim To Cure Hyper-Partisanship With Primary Changes

November 18, 2013 sean Uncategorized

by Mara Liasson NPR – November 18, 2013 Several states are trying to do something about so-called hyper-partisanship by changing the way congressional districts are drawn

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