2015年1月30日 星期五

2015-01-31 U.S. Spotlight


New York Times
   
Can Students Have Too Much Tech?   
New York Times
PRESIDENT OBAMA's domestic agenda, which he announced in his State of the Union address this month, has a lot to like: health care, maternity leave, affordable college. But there was one thing he got wrong. As part of his promise to educate American ...


   


After a season of scandal, will viewers hold NFL more accountable?   
PBS NewsHour
From domestic violence to deflated footballs, this NFL season has been rife with scandal, and yet its viewership has remained loyal. Ahead of Sunday's Super Bowl, Hari Sreenivasan takes stock of the year in pro-football with Kevin Blackistone of ESPN and ...


   


National Geographic
   
Ice Hampers Cleanup in Yellowstone's Rare Winter Oil Spill   
National Geographic
The effort offers cautionary tales for the proposed Keystone XL pipeline and for Arctic drilling. Picture of workers from Swat Consulting, Inc. in and around air boats at the. Workers on a frozen section of the Yellowstone River were trying to recover spilled crude ...


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How to Get Through Cold-and-Flu Season Without Making Enemies   
New York Times
Good manners and cold-and-flu season share an uneasy relationship, like spell-check and Chaucer. Consider, for instance, the pale, disheveled gentleman — “a guy in that sweet spot of the hipster/homeless Venn diagram” — that the artist Andrew Pope said ...


   


A push to use the human genome to make medicine more precise   
PBS NewsHour
President Obama introduced a new plan to create a database of genetic information of a million Americans in order to better tailor medical treatments for groups of patients. Science correspondent Miles O'Brien interviews Francis Collins, director of the ...


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National Geographic
   
Pair of Ice Climbers Are First to Ascend Frozen Niagara Falls   
National Geographic
Nine daredevils have gone over Niagara Falls in barrels and lived to tell the tale. This week, ice climbers Will Gadd and Sarah Hueniken became the first to reverse the trip. The pair became the first to ascend the world-famous falls on Tuesday, following a ...


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New York Times
   
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love 'Moby-Dick'   
New York Times
ABOARD THE POLAR PIONEER, off the Antarctic Peninsula — I never intended to go to Antarctica and I intended never to read “Moby-Dick.” There is a significant distinction between these two positions. It had simply not crossed my mind that Antarctica could ...


   


How a new generation of war veterans wants to shape military policy   
PBS NewsHour
The new Congress has the fewest military veterans since World War II, but recent veterans from the Iraq and Afghanistan wars are on the rise. What priorities do they bring to Capitol Hill? Judy Woodruff talks to Rep. Martha McSally, R-Ariz., a former Air Force ...


   


National Geographic
   
Crossing Pacific, Balloonists Unofficially Set New Records   
National Geographic
Two pilots in a helium-filled balloon are expected to land in the United States this weekend. Picture of capsule of Two Eagle balloon over Pacific Ocean. The view from the Two Eagles, which is filled with helium gas and has traveled more than 5,209 miles ...


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BICEP2 Gravitational Wave 'Discovery' Deflates   
Discovery News
In online French documents briefly released and then removed last night and confirmed by the European Space Agency today, physicists have announced that last year's much-publicized 'discovery' of gravitational waves embedded in the 'echo' of the Big ...


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