2014年12月21日 星期日

2014-12-22 U.S. Spotlight


Dog Swims 1.5 Miles During Storm To Reunite With Owner After Home On Water ...   
CBS Local
SAUSALITO (KPIX 5) — A Sausalito man whose home on the water sank during last week's brutal storm was reunited with his dog that somehow survived the sinking, and swam to shore, walked to a church, and waited for her owner. Steve Alioto had ...


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New York Times
   
Los Angeles, as a Pedestrian   
New York Times
Had I been driving I would not have stopped here. But I was lured from the sidewalk by an open gate and the mysterious buildings beyond. There was a Moorish structure with a minaret, another was Italian with a loggia, a third had a fleur-de-lis on a chimney.

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Woman Catches Police Officer Doing Something on Side of Busy Roadway That ...   
IJ Review
Debbie Davis was driving along a busy roadway in Kansas City when she saw something that made her slow down. On the side of the road was an empty police motorcycle; the officer, sitting in the grass, with two dogs. The policeman could have simply called ...


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Pulse
   
Google's Very Rough Transition   
Pulse
One Face-to-Face Interview and You're Out! Why?Skip Freeman - BS Eng, MS... 8 Things I Wish HR Would Stop Doing in 2015Alan Collins - Founder,... How Do You Start a Meeting?Dan Leunig. How False Ceilings and Floors Harm the Advance of ...


   


Bleacher Report
   
NFL Picks Week 16: Bleacher Report's Expert Consensus Picks   
Bleacher Report
With the dawning of Week 16, only two weeks remain in the 2014 regular season. This week's games run the gamut, both from the standpoint of the teams involved and the stakes. The week begins with the Tennessee Titans and Jacksonville Jaguars playing ...


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Huffington Post
   
Texas Plumber Isn't Sure How Extremists In Syria Ended Up With His Work Truck   
Huffington Post
A Texas plumber says he has no idea how his company's work truck ended up in the hands of Islamic extremists in Syria. The truck, a black Ford F-250 with the logo for Texas City's Mark-1 Plumbing emblazoned on the door, appeared in a tweet posted ...


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National Geographic
   
New Online Archive Shows Colonial New York Was Rowdy, Filthy, Smelly   
National Geographic
Early manuscripts newly posted online depict New Amsterdam as an intoxicated Dutch settlement and show its leader, Peter Stuyvesant, struggling to bring order. Archival watercolor drawing of New Amsterdam island. This image of New Amsterdam ...


   


BBC News
   
The largest vessel the world has ever seen   
BBC News
Climbing onto the largest vessel the world has ever seen brings you into a realm where everything is on a bewilderingly vast scale and ambition knows no bounds. Prelude is a staggering 488m long and the best way to grasp what this means is by ...


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NYPD officer killings expose rift between police and mayor   
PBS NewsHour
Pervaiz Shallwani, a criminal justice reporter for the Wall Street Journal joins Hari Sreenivasan for the latest information about the murder of two NYPD officers in Brooklyn Saturday, Dec. 20. COMMENTS. +1; EMAIL. SUPPORT FOR PBS NEWSHOUR ...


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Teen Inventor Sets His Sights on New Tests for Cancer, Pollution   
National Geographic
Emerging Explorer Jack Andraka doesn't plan to stop with his prize-winning test for pancreatic cancer. Susan Daugherty. National Geographic. Published December 19, 2014. Editor's Note: Jack Andraka is one of National Geographic's 2014 Emerging ...


   

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