2015年6月9日 星期二

2015-06-10 U.S. Spotlight


Haunting chalkboard drawings, frozen in time for 100 years, discovered in ...   
Washington Post
Teachers and students scribbled the lessons — multiplication tables, pilgrim history, how to be clean — nearly 100 years ago. And they haven't been touched since. This week, contractors removing old chalkboards at Emerson High School in Oklahoma City ...


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Woman hit by bat at Red Sox game remains in serious condition   
Boston.com
Tonya Carpenter was sitting behind the visitors' on-deck circle at Fenway Park Friday night watching the Red Sox take on the Oakland Athletics with a man and her son. Then, A's third baseman Brett Lawrie shattered his bat on a groundout in the second ...


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Holacracy at Zappos: "It's not anarchy," co-founder says   
Yahoo Finance
"The other side of that story is that 86% [of employees] turned down a lot of money to stay and be part of a major change in the corporate structure," says HolacracyOne co-founder Brian Robertso. 2. . Why 2016 presidential hopefuls should ...


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New York Times
   
SEAL Team 6: A Secret History of Quiet Killings and Blurred Lines   
New York Times
They have plotted deadly missions from secret bases in the badlands of Somalia. In Afghanistan, they have engaged in combat so intimate that they have emerged soaked in blood that was not their own. On clandestine raids in the dead of the night, their ...


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PCWorld
   
Computex 2015: The powerful, wacky, and important PC gear you need to know ...   
PCWorld
One of the last major tech expos of the year just took place in Taiwan, and with it came a flood of major PC news as manufacturers rush to prepare for Windows 10 and the crucial holiday shopping season. Intel provided more Skylake details and introduced ...


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FiveThirtyEight
   
Tobey Maguire Is The Real-Life Vince From 'Entourage'   
FiveThirtyEight
Still, it got us wondering: Who in real life had the career arc most like Vincent Chase, the fictional protagonist of “Entourage”? According to entertainment site PopSugar, here are the film jobs that Chase had on the show: A bit part in real-life film “A Walk to ...


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New York Times
   
Why I Defaulted on My Student Loans   
New York Times
ONE late summer afternoon when I was 17, I went with my mother to the local bank, a long-defunct institution whose name I cannot remember, to apply for my first student loan. My mother co-signed. When we finished, the banker, a balding man in his late 50s, ...


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Fox News
   
The real truth about sex: What we're not telling our kids   
Fox News
We're a culture obsessed with parenthood, or “parenting,” as we like to call it. Countless websites, books, and magazines provide advice for parents aspiring to perfection. And paramount on any good parent's priority list is making sure our kids are safe and ...


   


International Business Times
   
Space Industry Startups Eye Asteroid Mining, Tourism And In-Orbit Construction ...   
International Business Times
Private companies are pursuing opportunities in space as never before. Planetary Resources raised $1.5 million for the Arkyd space telescope, pictured here in an illustration, in 2013 through a Kickstarter campaign. Planetary Resources. SEATTLE -- For a ...


   


New York Times
   
Ahmed Zayat's Journey: Bankruptcy and Big Bets   
New York Times
Before his name was on the lips of horse lovers, American Pharoah was known simply as Hip No. 85 and was drawing attention two summers ago for all the wrong reasons. He was a large, lovely bay yearling with a tiny scrape on the back of a front ankle that ...


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