2014年10月2日 星期四

2014-10-03 U.S. Spotlight

  PBS NewsHour   
U.S. troops arrive in West Africa to join fight against Ebola  PBS NewsHour
A health worker stands on September 7, 2014 at Elwa hospital in Monrovia, LIberia which is run by the non-governmental French organization Doctors without Borders. US President Barack Obama said in an interview aired on September 7 the US military ...


   

  National Geographic   
Biggest Walrus Gathering Recorded as Sea Ice Shrinks  National Geographic
Scientists have photographed the largest gathering of Pacific walruses ever recorded, on a beach in northern Alaska, blaming climate change for the estimated 35,000 females and calves huddled beside the Chukchi Sea (map). Federal biologists with the ...


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  New York Times   
With Dry Taps and Toilets, California Drought Turns Desperate  New York Times
A community in California struggles as the water runs out. One resident has used her own money and donations from others to begin delivering water to people's homes. Video by Jennifer Medina on Publish Date October 2, 2014. Photo by Jim Wilson/The ...


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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, ...


   

  National Geographic   
Is 2 Degrees the Right Limit for Global Warming? Some Scientists Say No  National Geographic
We've come to think of it as the threshold of catastrophic climate change—but it's the wrong limit to set, two researchers argue. Coal fired power plant in winter with emissions blowing downwind. Emissions waft from the smokestacks of a coal-fired power plant ...


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  TIME   
Season Review: Transparent Is a Change for the Better  TIME
After I saw the pilot, I called this the best show of the fall. It turns out it's the best show of the year. The following review discusses plot points throughout the entire first season of Amazon Prime Video's Transparent. So, spoilers. Don't read it unless you've ...


   

  New York Times (blog)   
Steven Salaita and the Quagmire of Academic Freedom  New York Times (blog)
Steven G. Salaita says the University of Illinois destroyed his career. The Palestinian-American professor was invited to teach in the university's American Indian studies program earlier this year, but the board of trustees voted to block his appointment to the ...


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As Officials Track Texas Ebola Victim's Contacts, Criticism and Questions Mount  National Geographic
A resident of the Ivy Apartments in Dallas talks to the news media gathered at the fence of the complex on Wednesday. The first confirmed Ebola patient in the U.S. had been staying there. Photograph by Paul Moseley, Fort Worth Star-Telegram/MCT/Getty.

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  Discovery News   
Aliens May be Out There, but Too Distant for Contact  Discovery News
The SETI Institute's Allen Telescope Array (ATA) is hunting for radio signals from hypothetical intelligent alien life in our galaxy. SETI Institute. Gallery. HowAliensCanFindUs(andViceVersa):Photos. View Caption +#1: Nov. 8, 2011 --. Despite the occasional ...


   

  New York Times   
The Revelations of Marilynne Robinson  New York Times
This June, as a grandfather clock rang the quarter-hour in her modest Iowa City living room, the American novelist and essayist Marilynne Robinson, a woman of 70 who speaks in sentences that accumulate into polished paragraphs, made a confession: “I ...


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