2014年11月14日 星期五

2014-11-15 U.S. Spotlight

  New York Times   
Brushing Off a French Stigma That Doggie Bags Are for Beggars  New York Times
Yoann Blanc, owner and chef of La Tête de Lard, a typical “bouchon” Lyonnais restaurant, showed off his form of a doggie bag. Credit Marlene Awaad for The New York Times. Continue reading the main story. Continue reading the main story. Continue ...


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  Entertainment Weekly   
Steve Carell in 'Foxcatcher' and the legacy of clowns who get serious  Entertainment Weekly
That's the old showbiz adage, but it's one the Academy has never quite learned to appreciate. Comedians and comedies are traditionally ignored by the Oscars, meaning that if a great talent like Robin Williams or Jim Carrey wants the Hollywood hardware ...


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  PBS NewsHour   
U.S. plans to build world's fastest supercomputers with $425 million  PBS NewsHour
The U.S. Department of Energy will spend $425 million to research and construct supercomputers, such as NASA's “Discover” machine seen here. Photo by NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. The U.S. government wants to take back the crown for world's ...


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  New York Times   
The Comfort Women and Japan's War on Truth  New York Times
WASHINGTON — In 1942, a lieutenant paymaster in Japan's Imperial Navy named Yasuhiro Nakasone was stationed at Balikpapan on the island of Borneo, assigned to oversee the construction of an airfield. But he found that sexual misconduct, gambling ...


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  National Geographic   
Centuries-Old Fishery at Risk in a South African Marine Park  National Geographic
As the number of fish traps in Kosi Bay increases and commercial interests intrude, fish populations are in jeopardy. Necklace of fish traps in Kosi Bay, Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa. A string of fish traps decorate the estuary waters of Kosi Bay, South Africa.

   


News Wrap: GOP-controlled House greenlights Keystone XL bill  PBS NewsHour
In our news wrap Friday, the Republican-controlled House approved the final phase of the construction of the Keystone XL pipeline for the ninth time. It's never gotten through the Democratic-controlled Senate, but that may be changing after the midterm ...


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  New York Times   
Texas, 3 Ways  New York Times
You might say that a certain otherness has always characterized Texas as a whole — and by “whole,” I refer to that entire 269,000-square-mile sui generis behemoth on the map, mallet-headed and dainty-footed, with a single dorsal wing and a swollen belly ...


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  TIME   
It May Be Too Late For Japan's PM to Fix the World's Third-Largest Economy  TIME
Shinzo Abe In this Thursday, July 31, 2014 file photo, Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe looks up during a visit to the Santa Lucia Hill Japanese Gardens in Santiago, Chile. Luis Hidalgo—AP. Shinzo Abe is desperate to rescue his failing economic program, ...


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Shields and Brooks on the China carbon deal, Obama's immigration action  PBS NewsHour
Syndicated columnist Mark Shields and New York Times columnist David Brooks join Hari Sreenivasan to discuss the week's news, including the carbon deal between the United States and China, legislative action on the Keystone XL pipeline and how ...


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  National Geographic   
3 Obstacles Ahead for Surprise US-China Climate Deal  National Geographic
A woman wears a mask as protection against heavy haze and smog in Beijing in October 2014. Photograph Kim Kyung-Hoon, Reuters/Corbis. Wendy Koch. National Geographic. Published November 12, 2014. A surprise U.S.-China climate deal to cut ...


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