2015年7月23日 星期四

2015-07-24 U.S. Spotlight


Obama offers the perfect response to the Confederate flag wavers   
Washington Post
When President Obama arrived in Oklahoma City on Wednesday night, a vulgar sight awaited him: about 10 demonstrators across the street from Obama's downtown hotel waving Confederate battle flags as the presidential motorcade pulled up. Such a ...


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New York Times
   
Honoring the International, Adaptable Eggplant   
New York Times
Eggplants are arriving at the market in all shapes, sizes and hues. Some are pear-shaped, fat, shiny and black; others are thin, footlong and dark purplish. There are bright fuchsia eggplants and eggplants with magenta and white striations. Some are ...

   


AL.com
   
500 pound Alabama man loses half his body weight -- thanks to fast food   
AL.com
He's in a rush to tell his story, a rush to get it all out. He is in a rush – let's face it -- to live a life it took him 30 years to discover. "I feel like I've been reborn," he said, as it all gushes out. "I'm still trying to learn how to live a ...

   


The Next Web
   
How to make a living with WordPress - The Next Web   
The Next Web
Matteo Duò is Content Strategist at Codeable, the #1 outsourcing service for WordPress providing top-notch WordPress experts to small businesses, agencies, and bloggers. Wanna know know more about WordPress and entrepreneurship? Check out ...


   


New York Times
   
How Hip-Hop Is Becoming the Oldies   
New York Times
Less than a year ago, the Indianapolis radio station WRWM, then known as Indy's i94, was the 15th-most-popular station in the Central Indiana market. It played a forgettable mix of Maroon 5, Sam Smith and other staples of what in radio lingo is called ...

   


NBCNews.com
   
Tom Selleck Settlement Accepted in California Water Fight   
NBCNews.com
Actor Tom Selleck will pay a California water district more than $21,000 to settle a lawsuit that alleged water was sent to his sprawling Hidden Valley property that was improperly taken out of the district's boundaries by a private company. The ...

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The mysterious, pre-Civil War shipwreck just discovered off the North Carolina ...   
Washington Post
The Marine scientists didn't set out to find a shipwreck. But when they deployed their underwater equipment off the North Carolina coast, there it was, lying nearly a mile beneath the surface: a ship carrying an iron chain, red bricks and glass bottles.

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Politico
   
Iran Is That the One We Invaded   
Politico
“Your nation is grateful,” National Security Advisor Susan Rice tweeted this week as Secretary of State John Kerry and Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz announced the most historic international agreement of the Obama presidency, the Iran nuclear deal.

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BBC News
   
probe zooms into Pluto's plains   
BBC News
The American space agency's New Horizons probe has returned further images of Pluto that include a view of the dwarf planet's strange icy plains. A region, which has been named after the Soviet Sputnik satellite, displays a flat terrain broken up into ...


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Washington Post
   
From a first arrest to a life sentence   
Washington Post
Sharanda Jones — prisoner 33177-077 — struggled to describe the moment in 1999 when a federal judge sentenced her to life in prison after her conviction on a single cocaine offense. She was a first-time, nonviolent offender. UNWINDING THE DRUG WAR ...


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