PBS NewsHour
United States loosens embargo against Cuba
PBS NewsHour
The Obama administration significantly loosened restrictions on U.S. embargoes against Cuba. Photo by Flickr user Melody Breaker. WASHINGTON — The Obama administration is putting a large dent in the U.S. embargo against Cuba as of Friday, ...
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PBS NewsHour
The Obama administration significantly loosened restrictions on U.S. embargoes against Cuba. Photo by Flickr user Melody Breaker. WASHINGTON — The Obama administration is putting a large dent in the U.S. embargo against Cuba as of Friday, ...
Discovery News
The 10 Longest Animals in the Ocean
Discovery News
There are a lot of fish tales about ocean animal sizes, but a new study clarifies what the maximum documented body length is for some of the biggest marine species. The official measurements, presented in the latest issue of the journal PeerJ, show that most ...
Discovery News
There are a lot of fish tales about ocean animal sizes, but a new study clarifies what the maximum documented body length is for some of the biggest marine species. The official measurements, presented in the latest issue of the journal PeerJ, show that most ...
In Salt Lake City, a Proposal to Link Ski Trails
New York Times
Perhaps the biggest news lately in North American skiing has been the announcement in 2014 that seven ski resorts perched high above Salt Lake City hope to join hands to create the largest megaresort in North America. OneWasatch, as it's being billed, ...
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New York Times
Perhaps the biggest news lately in North American skiing has been the announcement in 2014 that seven ski resorts perched high above Salt Lake City hope to join hands to create the largest megaresort in North America. OneWasatch, as it's being billed, ...
PBS NewsHour
'An era of defeat' for the best soldiers in the world?
PBS NewsHour
Journalist James Fallows says it's time to examine why the best funded, best trained and most professional military in the world hasn't achieved lasting victory in the post-9/11 era. He joins chief foreign correspondent Margaret Warner to discuss his ...
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PBS NewsHour
Journalist James Fallows says it's time to examine why the best funded, best trained and most professional military in the world hasn't achieved lasting victory in the post-9/11 era. He joins chief foreign correspondent Margaret Warner to discuss his ...
Something Lost in Skype Translation
MIT Technology Review (blog)
Skype's real-time translation software highlights remarkable progress in machine learning—but it still struggles with the subtleties of human communication. By John Pavlus on January 15, 2015. Why It Matters. Breaking down language barriers could ...
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MIT Technology Review (blog)
Skype's real-time translation software highlights remarkable progress in machine learning—but it still struggles with the subtleties of human communication. By John Pavlus on January 15, 2015. Why It Matters. Breaking down language barriers could ...
Alan Gilbert: By the Book
New York Times
The conductor and music director of The New York Philharmonic says that after his cameo appearance on “30 Rock,” he read Tina Fey's “Bossypants”: “It is brilliant, insightful and spot on in its crazy observations about life.” You've mentioned in a previous ...
New York Times
The conductor and music director of The New York Philharmonic says that after his cameo appearance on “30 Rock,” he read Tina Fey's “Bossypants”: “It is brilliant, insightful and spot on in its crazy observations about life.” You've mentioned in a previous ...
PBS NewsHour
Holder calls for better data on police use of force
PBS NewsHour
After a year where police brutality was in the spotlight, Attorney General Eric Holder has called for better record-keeping on police use of force. Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images. WASHINGTON — Attorney General Eric Holder called Thursday for better ...
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PBS NewsHour
After a year where police brutality was in the spotlight, Attorney General Eric Holder has called for better record-keeping on police use of force. Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images. WASHINGTON — Attorney General Eric Holder called Thursday for better ...
National Geographic
Summiting Yosemite's Dawn Wall, Climbers Make History
National Geographic
Tommy Caldwell and Kevin Jorgeson finish their quest to be the first to free climb the Dawn Wall. elcapitan-finish-10.jpg. Tommy Caldwell enjoys a long-awaited moment of triumph on the pinnacle of El Capitan. Photograph by Bligh Gillies, Big Up Productions.
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National Geographic
Tommy Caldwell and Kevin Jorgeson finish their quest to be the first to free climb the Dawn Wall. elcapitan-finish-10.jpg. Tommy Caldwell enjoys a long-awaited moment of triumph on the pinnacle of El Capitan. Photograph by Bligh Gillies, Big Up Productions.
New York Times
Crisis in France Is Seen as Sign of Chronic Ills
New York Times
VAULX-EN-VELIN, France — France may have just hosted its biggest outpouring of solidarity since the end of World War II in response to the terrorist attacks last week in and around Paris that left 17 dead at the satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo and a ...
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New York Times
VAULX-EN-VELIN, France — France may have just hosted its biggest outpouring of solidarity since the end of World War II in response to the terrorist attacks last week in and around Paris that left 17 dead at the satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo and a ...
Entertainment Weekly
This week's cover: The story behind 'Boyhood's' unlikely climb to Oscar frontrunner
Entertainment Weekly
Nothing scares Richard Linklater more than universal adulation. The maverick director has a theory that if everybody loves something—we're thinking McDonald's, Green Day, John Grisham—you're better off avoiding it. “If everyone likes a movie,” he says, ...
Entertainment Weekly
Nothing scares Richard Linklater more than universal adulation. The maverick director has a theory that if everybody loves something—we're thinking McDonald's, Green Day, John Grisham—you're better off avoiding it. “If everyone likes a movie,” he says, ...
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