2014年11月7日 星期五

2014-11-08 U.S. Spotlight


The Big Sleep  New York Times
Maybe it's best to close your eyes and fall into a Rip Van Winkle slumber for the next two years. The party that has refused to govern for half a decade and ran a substance-free campaign will now play at governing and not take up anything of substance.

   

  PBS NewsHour   
Positive jobs report may not reassure Americans with part-time work  PBS NewsHour
For the ninth straight month, the U.S. economy added more than 200,000 positions, bringing unemployment down to its lowest rate in six years. So why do Americans still feel pessimistic about the economy? Much of the workforce remains employed part-time, ...


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  National Geographic   
On Trail of Largest African Ivory Seizure in 25 Years, Locating Suspected ...  National Geographic
A fugitive in Ho Chi Minh City is believed to head a network that illegally ships ivory from Togo. A Vietnamese man identified as Huu Dinh Khao (L) and two Togolese men stand. A Vietnamese timber exporter, Dinh Huu Khao, and two alleged Togolese ...


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An Epidemic of Thyroid Cancer?  New York Times
HISTORICALLY, the science of epidemiology was directed toward identifying and controlling epidemics of infectious disease. In a study just published in the New England Journal of Medicine, my colleagues and I highlight another important job for ...


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  Vanity Fair   
What Does Republican Control of the Senate Really Mean for Obama?  Vanity Fair
While some remnant runoffs and wrinkles related to Tuesday's election still need to be sorted out, one thing was already crystal clear on Wednesday morning: Republicans will control the Senate—and, thus, both houses of United States legislature—for the ...


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  PBS NewsHour   
Behind Detroit's 'grand bargain' to emerge from bankruptcy  PBS NewsHour
Nearly 16 months after Detroit filed the largest municipal bankruptcy in the country's history, a federal judge approved a plan to drop the city's $7 billion in debt and invest over $1 billion in public services. Hari Sreenivasan speaks with Darren Walker of the ...


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  New York Times   
8 Distinctive Caribbean Inns for a Range of Budgets  New York Times
The diminutive size, steep topography or far-flung nature of many Caribbean locales tend to limit resort sprawl. Whether by circumstance or by design, the following new and improved inns — ranging from budget-friendly bunks to guest-spoiling splurges ...


   

  Vanity Fair   
Four Days in a Hello Kitty Convention Tattoo Parlor  Vanity Fair
Diana Torres showed up at the Geffen Contemporary at MOCA in downtown Los Angeles last Thursday morning at 3:45 A.M. It wasn't colder than hoodie weather, even in the three hours of pre-dawn darkness. The Riverside, California, native and her ...


   


News Wrap: Court upholds ban on gay marriage in four states  PBS NewsHour
In our news wrap Thursday, a federal appeals court upheld a ban on same-sex marriage in Ohio, Kentucky, Michigan and Tennessee. That decision makes it more likely that the issue will return to the Supreme Court. Also, The Wall Street Journal reported that ...


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  TIME   
The Challenge for the New Republican Majority  TIME
Mitch McConnell Supporters Republicans Supporters of Republican Sen. Mitch McConnell on election night in Louisville, Ky., Nov. 4, 2014. Christopher Morris—VII for TIME. The GOP won the 2014 elections. Now it has to start thinking about 2015 and 2016.

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