2014年12月20日 星期六

2014-12-21 U.S. Spotlight


How should the U.S. government respond to North Korea's attack on Sony?   
PBS NewsHour
President Obama told the White House Press Corps that Sony was wrong to withdraw its film, “The Interview,” and that the U.S. would react “proportionally” to the damaging cyber-attack by North Korea. Judy Woodruff turns to Dmitri Alperovitch of CrowdStrike ...


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Pulse
   
Big Idea 2015: The Coming Micropayment Disruption   
Pulse
One Face-to-Face Interview and You're Out! Why?Skip Freeman - BS Eng, MS... CEO Recruits In His Underwear (Does It Work?)J.T. O'DonnellInfluencer · Attack Your Next Decision Like a WarriorJohn Klapperich · 8 Things I Wish HR Would Stop Doing in ...


   


How to Be Liked by Everyone Online   
New York Times
I've never liked the idea of being followed. Late at night walking from the subway, I'm always on the lookout for lurkers. Once I had an actual stalker, who, in an unsettling twist, was also my next-door neighbor. The thought of his eyes beetling after me through ...


   


PBS NewsHour
   
Freedom of religion? Mosque debate in Georgia town reveals sharp divide   
PBS NewsHour
In Kennesaw, Ga., the city council recently rejected, then approved a bid to house a mosque at a shopping mall. The vote has ignited a fierce debate in the community over how residents feel about Muslims and their First Amendment right to freedom of ...


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The Weekly Standard
   
As the Swedes Go, So Goes Europe   
The Weekly Standard
"The winner,” ABBA advised in 1980, “takes it all. The loser has to fall.” But not in Swedish politics, where proportional representation has created a smorgasbord of parties and has now contributed to a crisis of democracy. A Stockholm rally against the ...


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Dick Cavett: By the Book   
New York Times
The author of “Brief Encounters: Conversations, Magic Moments, and Assorted Hijinks” is a great fan of rereading. “We'd all have been better off to have read half as many books. Twice.” Which books are currently on your night stand? The capacious night ...


   


TIME
   
Why Having Kids Won't Fulfill You   
TIME
Jennifer Aniston, take note. You haven't failed as a woman if you don't have kids. I was struck by the comments Jennifer Aniston made to Allure magazine this week about the badgering she gets on a topic that she finds painful: her lack of children. She tells ...


   


Grist
   
Seattle's unbelievable transportation megaproject fustercluck   
Grist
Last week, I mentioned in passing that Seattle is in the midst of a full-spectrum transportation fustercluck. It has since come to my attention that some Grist readers are unfamiliar with the fustercluck in question, even though it recently made The New York ...


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Obama Unbound   
New York Times
There may not be a lightness to his step, a lilt in his voice or a bit of jauntiness returned to his manner. The office ages everyone prematurely, and makes spontaneity all but impossible. But President Obama is acting like a man who's been given the political ...


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Why oil prices keep falling — and throwing the world into turmoil   
Vox
The plummeting price of oil is the biggest energy story in the world right now. It's bringing back cheap gasoline to the United States while wreaking havoc on oil-producing countries like Russia and Venezuela. But why does the price of oil keep falling? Back in ...


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