2014年11月2日 星期日

2014-11-03 U.S. Spotlight


Report: 60000 veterans got triple benefits last year — legally  PBS NewsHour
WASHINGTON — Nearly 60,000 veterans were triple dippers last year, drawing a total of $3.5 billion in military retirement pay plus veterans and Social Security disability benefits at the same time, congressional auditors report. It's all legal. The average ...


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  Jalopnik   
Here's What Happened When I Tried To Sell My Ferrari to CarMax  Jalopnik
If you're a regular reader, you probably know that I write two frequent series here on Jalopnik. In one, I document all the problems I have with my used Range Rover, which I bought two years ago from CarMax with a bizarrely comprehensive six-year warranty.

   

  New York Times   
The Political Power Watch Stops Ticking  New York Times
President Obama in 2009 flexing a JG6500 chronograph. Credit Brendan Smialowski for The New York Times. Continue reading the main story. Continue reading the main story. Continue reading the main story Share This Page. Continue reading the main ...


   


'It's like choreography:' Calder's sculpture continues to captivate  PBS NewsHour
Alexander Calder was one of the modern masters of art -- breaking the mold on sculpture in the 20th century. Nearly 40 years after his death, Calder's work continues to captivate. WGBH's Arts Editor Jared Bowen sat down recently with the Chief Curator of the ...


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  National Geographic   
Book Talk: EO Wilson's Bold Vision for Saving the World  National Geographic
When we see how badly we're destabilizing the world, Wilson says, we'll turn to reason. A photo of an engineer wearing a helmet of sensors. At the Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, an engineer wears a helmet of sensors that record activity in the brain ...


   

  Discovery News   
SpaceShipTwo Pilots Named; Branson Vows to 'Move Forward Together'  Discovery News
Updated at 10:45 p.m. EDT. Virgin Galactic founder Richard Branson has arrived in the Mojave Desert, Calif., in the wake of the tragic explosion and crash of the company's SpaceShipTwo vehicle. The rocket-propelled space plane was completely destroyed ...


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  Fox News   
Amelia Earhart plane fragment identified  Fox News
A piece of aluminum debris recovered in 1991 appears to belong to Earhart's lost plane. (TIGHAR). A fragment of Amelia Earhart's lost aircraft has been identified to a high degree of certainty for the first time ever since her plane vanished over the Pacific ...


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  PBS NewsHour   
Education issue comes to the forefront in several state races  PBS NewsHour
Governor Scott Walker of Wisconsin speaking at the 2013 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in National Harbor, Maryland. Scott is one of several Republicans currently being targeted by teacher-led campaigns, as midterm elections near.

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  TIME   
Straw Into Gold: Candidates Trade Leadership PAC Dollars for Campaign Cash  TIME
With just a few days remaining in the first quarter of 2014, Mary Landrieu did something generous: The embattled Democratic senator from Louisiana, herself in the midst of an exceedingly tough re-election race, used her leadership PAC to give $5,000 to the ...


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  Fox News   
November midterms: A tale of two elections  Fox News
For some weeks now on our Fox News show "Political Insiders," I have been expressing my concern that if we look at the polls, we seem to have two elections going on. With only days to go before the midterm elections we continue to see a true anomaly ...


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