2014年8月4日 星期一

2014-08-05 U.S. Spotlight


Why a July 31 trade deadline just doesnt make sense anymore  FOXSports.com
This is an exciting week in baseball, especially for those who are into speculation and rumor, as the July 31 trade deadline is coming up Thursday. Over the next 24 hours, we should see some pretty significant moves, with Jon Lester looking like the biggest ...


   

  Bloomberg   
Argentina Declared in Default by S&P as Talks Fail  Bloomberg
Standard & Poor's declared Argentina in default after the government missed a deadline for paying interest on $13 billion of restructured bonds. The South American country failed to get the $539 million payment to bondholders after a U.S. judge ruled that the ...


   


An Exclusive First Look At The Other-Worldly Art Of Burning Man 2014  Huffington Post
One of the very best things about Burning Man, the week-long, post-apocalyptic celebration of creative expression that pops up in the Nevada desert each August, is the awe-inspiring collection of art on display. The installations and the “art cars” roaming ...


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  PBS NewsHour   
How do stay-at-home parents collect Social Security?  PBS NewsHour
How does a couple collect benefits when one spouse hasn't worked outside the home? Photo by Flicker user Ed Yourdon. Larry Kotlikoff's Social Security original 34 “secrets”, his additional secrets, his Social Security “mistakes” and his Social Security ...


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10 Weirdest Bridges in the World (PHOTOS)  The Weather Channel
Bridges are some of the world's most magnificent marvels of engineering, connecting cities and even countries. But bridges have also featured some of the most innovative design. According to a Transportation Research Board Special Report on the Potential ...


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The hottest housing markets in Massachusetts in Q2: The return of the suburbs ...  Boston Business Journal (blog)
Melrose was tops among roughly two dozen red-hot housing markets northwest of Boston in the second quarter. Craig Douglas: Managing Editor, Online & Research- Boston Business Journal: Email | Twitter. Perhaps it's the outward ripple from the boiling-hot ...


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  New York Times   
Putin Strives to Harness Energy of Russian Pilgrims for Political Profit  New York Times
Some historians and church figures are crying foul over what they say are the Kremlin's efforts to reshape the legacy of St. Sergius to enhance political goals. Video Credit By Neil MacFarquhar and Natalia V. Osipova on Publish Date August 2, 2014.

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  PBS NewsHour   
Congress backs Israel's Iron Dome missile defense  PBS NewsHour
A missile is launched by an “Iron Dome” battery, a short-range missile defence system designed to intercept and destroy incoming short-range rockets and artillery shells, on July 15, 2014 in southern Israeli. Photo by David Buimovitch/AFP/Getty Images.

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Comcast Confessions: when every call is a sales call  The Verge
When AOL executive and Comcast customer Ryan Block recently tried to cancel his internet service, he ended up in a near-yelling match with a customer service representative who spent 18 minutes trying to talk him out of it. Rep: I'm just trying to figure out ...


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What Would Krishna Do? Or Shiva? Or Vishnu?  New York Times (blog)
The Stone is a forum for contemporary philosophers and other thinkers on issues both timely and timeless. This is the ninth in a series of interviews about religion that I am conducting for The Stone. The interviewee for this installment is Jonardon Ganeri, ...


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