2014年12月23日 星期二

2014-12-24 U.S. Spotlight


National Review Online (blog)
   
As Vermont Goes . . .   
National Review Online (blog)
The one state that not only embraced Obamacare but insisted on going beyond it to a full single-payer system was Vermont, the haven of hippies and expatriate New Yorkers, which has become one of the most liberal states in the nation. In 2011, it adopted a ...


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National Geographic
   
Plunging Oil Prices Hurt Iraqi Kurds' Bid for Independence   
National Geographic
As oil prices fall, so do Kurdish hopes for an independent state in northern Iraq. Photo of a gas flare burning near storage tanks in the oil fields near Kirkuk,. Gas flares burn near an oil storage tank in Kirkuk, Iraq, in September 2014. The Kurds assumed control ...


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New York Times
   
Indian Chains in New York, Worthy of Their Flagships   
New York Times
With hundreds of Indian restaurants in New York City, one would think finding authentic food, or desi khana, would be easy. But many still hark back to the wave of Indian restaurants that opened in the 1970s and '80s, offering a homogenized derivative of the ...


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NFL Week 16 game picks: Cowboys win; Steelers playoff-bound   
NFL.com
It's time to make some game picks. It's time to do some postseason accounting. And it's time for Jimmy Football. Jimmy Clausen makes his starting debut in Chicago in a game that carries much weight in the playoff race. OK, not for the home team. If the Bears ...


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Witnesses Lied Under Oath In Ferguson Grand Jury, Prosecutor Says   
Huffington Post
The St. Louis County prosecutor in the grand jury that acquitted Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson said that some of the witnesses called lied under oath. "Clearly some were not telling the truth,” Prosecuting Attorney Bob McCulloch said in an interview ...


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New York Times
   
How Possibilities of Life Elsewhere Might Alter Held Notions of Faith   
New York Times
A star appeared in the East. Following it, so the biblical story goes, three Magi urged on by a nervous King Herod arrived in Bethlehem and discovered the news that many of us celebrate with bells, lights and too much sugar and alcohol every year at this time: ...


   


CNN
   
Hackers can't be stopped, but some of their crimes can   
CNN
(CNN) -- How about a world where we have murderers but no murders? The police still chase down criminals who commit murder, we have trials, juries who judge, and justice is handed out . . . but no one dies. With many forms of cybercrime and hacking, we ...


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The 15 worst Internet hoaxes of 2014 — and where the pranksters are now   
Washington Post
If 2013 was “the year of the viral hoax,” what then should we call 2014 — a year slightly older, slightly wiser, and even more full of moronic shenanigans? This was the year, after all, that saw the rise of the fake news industry: a cynical (and profitable!) ...


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Will American baseball get more Cuban imports?   
PBS NewsHour
How will opening the door to normal relations with Cuba affect the world of professional baseball, a game that so many Cubans love? Hari Sreenivasan speaks with Jim Litke of the Associated Press to understand the possible implications. COMMENTS ?

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Sugar Season. It's Everywhere, and Addictive.   
New York Times
YOUR co-worker brought in brownies, your daughter made cookies for a holiday party and candy is arriving from far-flung relatives. Sugar is everywhere. It is celebration, it is festivity, it is love. It's also dangerous. In a recent study, we showed that sugar, ...


   

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