2014年12月22日 星期一

2014-12-23 U.S. Spotlight


PBS NewsHour
   
New York police killings raise questions of cause and effect after weeks of ...   
PBS NewsHour
The murder of two New York City police officers has ignited a volley of blame and exposes the deep rifts dividing a city in mourning. Gwen Ifill gets two perspectives from Patrick Colligan of the New Jersey State Policemen's Benevolent Association and Mark ...


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New York Times
   
Joe Cocker, Raspy-Voiced Rock Star With Distinctive Moves, Is Dead at 70   
New York Times
Joe Cocker, the gravelly British singer who became one of pop's most recognizable interpreters in the late 1960s and '70s with passionate, idiosyncratic takes on songs like the Beatles' “With a Little Help From My Friends,” died on Monday at his home in ...


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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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Viewers respond to report on controversy over Georgia mosque   
PBS NewsHour
Hari Sreenivasan reads viewer comments in response to a NewsHour Weekend report on controversy surrounding the opening of a mosque in a town in Georgia. COMMENTS ? ? +1; EMAIL ? SUPPORT FOR PBS NEWSHOUR PROVIDED BY ...


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The Guardian
   
Chinese passenger opens plane door for fresh air   
The Guardian
Passengers at a Chinese airport. There is growing concern in China about the behaviour of some travellers. Photograph: Ng Han Guan/AP. Tania Branigan in Beijing. Wednesday 17 December 2014 23.19 EST. Share on Facebook · Share on Twitter · Share ...


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New York Times
   
Performance Guide   
New York Times
A lineup of top opera, dance and orchestra performances taking place across the world in the winter months. Opera and Ballet. Photo. The Royal Danish Opera is staging a production of Alban Berg's “Lulu” through early February. Credit Miklos Szabo.

   


PBS NewsHour
   
Building literacy among the blind with a teen inventor's low-cost Lego printer   
PBS NewsHour
A simple question -- how do blind people read? -- inspired a middle-schooler's transformation into a tech entrepreneur. Using Lego blocks, 13-year-old Shubham Banerjee created a low-cost braille printer to improve access and literacy for the visually ...


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Wired
   
Centaurs, Soviets, and Seltzer Seas: Mariner 2's Venusian Adventure (1962)   
Wired
Hydrogen is the most common kind of normal matter in the universe. Perhaps the universe is trying to tell us something, for the most common chemical element makes an excellent energetic rocket fuel. That does not mean, however, that it is easy to manage.

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National Geographic
   
The Surprising Ways That Chickens Changed the World   
National Geographic
For most of us, the word "chicken" spells a cold, clammy slab of plastic-wrapped white meat plucked out of the refrigerated section of our local supermarket. But in the ancient world, and in many cultures today, chickens had deep religious and social ...


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Patch.com
   
Giant Python Captured in South Florida   
Patch.com
Residents of the Isles of Capri got quite a shock Wednesday when a 14.5-foot Burmese python decided to slither up to a local real estate office's door. The critter was first spotted near the doorway of Beau Middlebrook's Sun Realty office , WTSP reported.

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