2015年7月19日 星期日

2015-07-20 U.S. Spotlight


BBC News
   
How India makes Parsi babies   
BBC News
The Parsis of India are a unique community, but their numbers are declining fast. In an effort to change this, the government is spending $1.5m to encourage them to have more children. Persis Aspi Kamakhan still cannot believe her luck. She clucks and ...

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The Suspicious Story Behind Harper Lee's 'Go Set a Watchman'   
The New Republic
This piece is the first in a three-part series we'll be publishing this week on Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird, and Lee's new novel, Go Set a Watchman. When it was announced in February that a “new” Harper Lee novel had been “discovered,” there ...

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ESPN
   
The buzz at Las Vegas Summer League   
ESPN
LAS VEGAS -- The big summer transactions were all wrapped up by the time the NBA's cognoscenti touched down at McCarren Airport late last week for Las Vegas Summer League. There might have been fewer deals to execute, but at the SW Steakhouse in ...


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Forbes
   
The World's 50 Most Valuable Sports Teams 2015   
Forbes
It is boom times for professional sports team owners as they capitalize on their greatest financial advantage: DVR-proof programming in a fractured TV environment. Sports teams are awash in cash today thanks to multibillion-dollar media deals around ...

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Microsoft has finalized Windows 10   
The Verge
Microsoft has now finalized Windows 10, ready for its release later this month. Sources familiar with Microsoft's plans tell The Verge that the software giant has selected build 10240 as the final release to manufacturing (RTM) copy, allowing PC makers ...

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New York Times
   
New Horizons Sharpens Our View of Pluto's Icy Heart   
New York Times
NASA's New Horizons spacecraft is sending back images of Pluto taken during its Tuesday morning flyby. The images reveal a varied surface with ice mountains and frozen plains. The piano-size spacecraft traveled nine years and three billion miles to ...

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Huffington Post
   
10 Signs it Might Be Time to Divorce   
Huffington Post
Knowing when to divorce can be difficult, and it's a decision that shouldn't be taken lightly. So how do you know if you should proceed? How can you be sure that this time is really it? That this time there's no turning back? While there's no magic ...

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Washington Post (blog)
   
The black president some worried about has arrived   
Washington Post (blog)
There's this thing people sometimes say down South. So-and-so is "acting brand new." Sometimes that's a reference to people behaving like they don't know old friends and family — that they have evolved past their old crowd. Sometimes that's ...


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Daily Mail
   
Bobbi Kristina Brown's family gather at hospice after police and a lawyer arrive   
Daily Mail
The 22-year-old's family did not comment on her condition as the photos emerged, nor would Peachtree Christian reveal the reasons behind erecting the tent. However, it appears that the center may have constructed the tent to protect the privacy of ...

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CNNMoney
   
TurboTax to delete tax returns for CD users who store online   
CNNMoney
Are you a TurboTax CD user who stores your tax returns online? Better download your files quick before TurboTax deletes them. Intuit (INTU), the maker of TurboTax, Quicken, Mint and other personal finance tech products, has announced that it is ...


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