2014年9月30日 星期二

2014-10-01 U.S. Spotlight


Obama: US misjudged threat of Islamic State militants  PBS NewsHour
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama said in an interview airing Sunday that he agrees with intelligence leaders who believe the United States not only underestimated the threat of militants seeking to form the Islamic State group but also overestimated ...


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  National Geographic   
The Big Problem With Mini-Pigs  National Geographic
When pint-size pigs grow bigger than promised, they wind up euthanized or in overburdened shelters. Can education, regulation, and more sanctuaries solve the problem? Daisy Mae, miniature Vietnamese pot-bellied pig lounges in her West St Paul,.

   

  New York Times   
Revisiting the Lehman Brothers Bailout That Never Was  New York Times
Inside the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, time was running out to answer a question that would change Wall Street forever. At issue that September, six years ago, was whether the Fed could save a major investment bank whose failure might threaten the ...


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  PBS NewsHour   
Obama, Modi tout deeper U.S.-India economic relation  PBS NewsHour
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi waves to supporters after paying his respects at a statue of Mahatma Gandhi in front of the Indian embassy in Washington Tuesday. Modi met Monday with President Barack Obama, Vice President Joe Biden and other key ...


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  TIME   
Gush All You Want, But Richard Branson's Unlimited Vacation Is a Trick  TIME
Coleman and Ferguson are the authors of Making Conflict Work: Harnessing the Power of Disagreement, out this week. "Endless summers" do little but incentivize workaholics to work more, while everyone else—younger employees, busy parents—suffers ...


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  Vanity Fair   
Trading Meatloaf for Oxy: This Is the Chef Memoir We've Been Waiting For  Vanity Fair
Jesse Schenker's All or Nothing: One Chef's Appetite for the Extreme will be the chef memoir everyone is talking about this year. It's cliché to say so, but we know it's true. After years of abusing a variety of drugs more varied than Julia Child's shopping list, ...


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  PBS NewsHour   
How the Tylenol murders of 1982 changed the way we consume medication  PBS NewsHour
A drugstore clerk removes Tylenol capsules from the shelves of a pharmacy Sept. 30, 1982, in New York City after reports of tampering. Seven people in the Chicago area were killed that year by Tylenol that had been poisoned with potassium cyanide. Photo ...


   

  National Geographic   
The Search for Missing Frogs Brings Some Species Back From the Dead  National Geographic
Researchers spent months hunting for frogs and salamanders that either had been declared extinct or hadn't been seen in decades. A photo of a masked treefrog. A masked tree frog peers out at the world from behind a leaf in the Chocó forest, Colombia.

   

  Discovery News   
First Case of Ebola in U.S. Diagnosed in Dallas  Discovery News
As a species, we tend to tell ourselves stories about what scares us most. In literature, film and television we process our cultural worries and bounce them back in various forms. With new fears arising over the emergent MERS-CoV virus and the threat of a ...


   

  New York Times   
Doctors Find Barriers to Sharing Digital Medical Records  New York Times
Dr. Jeffery O'Tool and Lizzie Wittrock, a registered nurse, use the electronic record system at UnityPoint Health-St. Luke's Hospital in Sioux City, Iowa. The hospital's 18-month old system still cannot be used to send records to another hospital two miles away.

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