2014年8月14日 星期四

2014-08-15 U.S. Spotlight

  New York Times   
Should You Fear the Pizzly Bear?  New York Times
In New England today, trees cover more land than they have at any time since the colonial era. Roughly 80 percent of the region is now forested, compared with just 30 percent in the late 19th century. Moose and turkey again roam the backwoods. Beavers ...


   


With Yamaha's Electrified TransAcoustic, the Entire Piano Is the Speaker  TIME
It's a fully acoustic, optionally silent piano teamed with a pair of transducers and a digital sample set lifted from Yamaha's premium CFX concert grand, producing a piano sound you've never heard before. Imagine, however improbable this sounds, ...


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  PBS NewsHour   
Egypt fires back at report on protest violence  PBS NewsHour
Egyptian security forces move in to disperse a protest camp held by supporters of ousted president Mohammed Morsi and members of the Muslim Brotherhood on Aug. 14, 2013 near Cairo's Rabaa al-Adawiya mosque. Photo by STR/AFP/Getty Images.

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  New York Times   
Las Vegas, Off the Eaten Path  New York Times
LAS VEGAS — Perched at the counter of Sweets Raku, a small, year-old dessert restaurant where almost everything is the gleaming white of a new iPhone charger, I chose a three-course tasting from a rice-paper menu printed in gold. Mio Ogasawara, the ...


   

  TIME   
Robin's Pain: The Mystery of Suicide—and How to Prevent It  TIME
Robin Williams was just one of 39,000 Americans who take their lives each year. The longstanding puzzle is why anyone arrives at so tragic a place. Increasingly, there are answers. The great paradox of the human brain is that it can't feel pain. The organ that ...


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About 4500 civilians atop Iraq's Sinjar mountain  PBS NewsHour
WASHINGTON — Roughly 4,500 people remain atop northern Iraq's Sinjar Mountain, and nearly half are herders who lived there before the siege and have no interest in being evacuated, two U.S. officials said. The officials, speaking on condition of ...


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  New York Times   
Woodrow Wilson, World War I, and American Idealism  New York Times
President Woodrow Wilson announced to a joint session of Congress on April 2, 1917, that a new age had begun. Credit Associated Press. Continue reading the main story. Continue reading the main story. Continue reading the main story Share This Page.

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  USA TODAY   
Bojangles' Chicken 'n Biscuits: Fast food worth a stop  USA TODAY
The scene: Considering how popular fried chicken is in this country – and it's bigger than ever, suddenly following in the trendy footsteps of barbecue – there are surprisingly few places to get it. With burgers you have three huge national fast-food chains, plus ...


   


Good News: This Shopping App Finally Makes the Mall Obsolete  Wired
There was a time, not all that long ago, when the best way for brands to get discovered was to open up a shop in the mall. At the mall, brands got all the creative freedom of a standalone store with 10 or even 20 times the foot traffic. Then e-commerce came ...


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Humans Are to Blame for Rapidly Melting Glaciers  Discovery News
The effects of global warming are frequently projected decades into the future, but two recent reports -- one from the U.S. Global Change Research Program and the other from the U.N. -- put into sharp focus visible consequences of our warming planet.

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