2014年8月15日 星期五

2014-08-16 U.S. Spotlight

  USA TODAY   
10 hotel booking mistakes (and how to avoid them)  USA TODAY
Booking a hotel seems pretty straightforward, right? And most times it is: Pick a destination, choose your dates, enter payment info and voila, happy travels! However, there are some big blunders you could be making when it comes to hotel reservations.

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  National Geographic   
Q&A: Sylvia Earle's Personal Journey and Why the Ocean is Vital to Life  National Geographic
National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence Sylvia Earle has logged more than 7,000 hours beneath the sea. Photograph by Kip Evans, National Geographic Television. Brian Clark Howard. National Geographic. Published August 15, 2014. National ...


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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, ...


   

  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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  National Geographic   
California Drought Spurs Groundwater Drilling Boom in Central Valley  National Geographic
Drillers have more work than they can handle, as water tables fall and experts warn of long-term consequences. Photo of Simon who works on a water well drilling rig in California'. A drill rig operator bores a new well for a farmer outside of Fresno, ...


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  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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Fighting, waterborne disease plague South Sudanese displaced during rainy ...  PBS NewsHour
Eight months of civil war in South Sudan has forced more than 1.5 million people out of their homes. Even those who found shelter in United Nations camps around the country endure desperate living situations, made worse by the country's rainy season.

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Robin Williams, the Vulnerable Showman  New York Times
Every writer fears the blank page. Every comedian dreads silence at the end of a punch line. Every creative soul quivers at the prospect of brush touching canvas or fingers reaching for keyboards and finding — nothing. In all the tributes to the propulsive force ...


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  TIME   
How Lauren Bacall Got to Dine with President Clinton at a TIME Gala  TIME
I'm at least 84% sure this story is accurate. Eighty-four percent because I was in the room at the time, the other 16% because I didn't see what happened but only heard about it. Even if the anecdote is not red-check true, it provides tantalizing support to the ...


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  PBS NewsHour   
Few in Congress question U.S. efforts in Iraq  PBS NewsHour
WASHINGTON — Little of the impassioned debate that fractured lawmakers last year over possible military intervention in Syria is happening now as American warplanes strike extremist targets in Iraq. Almost a week into the Obama administration's ...


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