2015年7月20日 星期一

2015-07-21 U.S. Spotlight


SI.com
   
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar as comfortable as ever as a public intellectual   
SI.com
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar haunts the NCAA Final Four once more, his body folded into a mezzanine skybox, a UCLA cap pulled low over a very high brow. During a break in the national semifinal between Duke and Michigan State, the jumbotron at Indianapolis's ...


   


New York Times
   
Tarrytown, NY, Steeped in History   
New York Times
While Tarrytown and the construction of the new Tappan Zee Bridge are intertwined in the news these days, this village rich in Revolutionary War history and culture has always been a popular spot in the Hudson Valley for its river views, its historic ...

   


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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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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New York Times
   
As Jade Helm 15 Military Exercise Begins, Texans Keep Watch 'Just in Case'   
New York Times
CHRISTOVAL, Tex. — Despite the Internet chatter about trains with shackles and Walmart stores being closed to be used as detention camps, this small West Texas town on Wednesday seemed to be surviving the start of Jade Helm 15, the military exercise ...


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NPR
   
How One Woman Found The Courage To Say No To Domestic Abuse   
NPR
Saroj is a cook at a public school in her village, Dujana, in the northern Indian state of Haryana. Like most people in this state, she doesn't have a last name. She walks to work down narrow streets of concrete homes with cows and buffaloes outside ...

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CNBC
   
Icahn blames BlackRock for bond market volatility   
CNBC
Activist investor Carl Icahn took a swing at the high-yield debt market and liquidity Wednesday, contending that BlackRock creates an "extremely dangerous situation" by encouraging debt issuance. "They sell liquidity. There is no liquidity. That's what ...

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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
   
Walmart Lashes Out At Amazon Over 'Prime Day'   
Huffington Post
Walmart is offering a bunch of online deals -- and it wants you to know you don't need a $99 membership to get them, they way you do with Amazon's Prime Day deals. Headshot of Alexander C. Kaufman. Alexander C. Kaufman Business Editor, The ...


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Bloomberg
   
The Exact Moment Big Cities Got Too Expensive for Millennials   
Bloomberg
The rent has been "too damn high" in New York for so long that today's young professionals might assume it was always that way. Yet it wasn't until the second quarter of 2004 that the median rent exceeded 30 percent of the median household income for ...


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