2015-03-28 U.S. Spotlight

Quartz   

Costa Rica is now running completely on renewable energy   
Quartz
Costa Rica is running without having to burn a single fossil fuel, and it's been doing so for 75 straight days. Thanks to some heavy rainfall this year, Costa Rica's hydropower plants alone are generating nearly enough electricity to power the entire country.

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The New Yorker   

A Loss for Words   
The New Yorker
The consequences of losing a language may not be understood until it is too late. Credit Illustration by Stephen Doyle. It is a singular fate to be the last of one's kind. That is the fate of the men and women, nearly all of them elderly, who are—like Marie Wilcox, ...

2015-03-28 U.S. Health

Live Science   

Germanwings Crash: Mental Illness Alone Does Not Explain Co-Pilot's Behavior ...   
Live Science
Investigators may never know exactly why Germanwings co-pilot Andreas Lubitz carried out what is believed to have been a deliberate plane crash in the French Alps on Tuesday, but mental health experts say that any mental illness that Lubitz may have had ...

2015-03-28 U.S. Science

NBCNews.com   

US-Russian Crew Docks With Space Station for Yearlong Mission   
NBCNews.com
Three spacefliers rode a Russian Soyuz capsule to the International Space Station on Friday to begin an orbital stay that will set two records. Launch from Russia's Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan came at 3:42 p.m. ET (1:42 a.m. local time Saturday), ...

2015-03-28 U.S. Sports

Kansas City Star   

Kevin Durant to Have Bone Graft and Miss Rest of Season   
New York Times
Kevin Durant, the N.B.A.'s reigning most valuable player, has played his final game of an injury-marred season. Durant is scheduled to undergo a bone graft next week on his ailing right foot, the team announced Friday, and is not expected to resume ...

2015-03-28 U.S. Entertainment

Los Angeles Times   

Spectre Teaser Trailer Shows Daniel Craig's James Bond More Brooding and ...   
E! Online
Oh, welcome back, Mr. Bond. (Oh, and Skyfall spoiler ahead...) The first teaser trailer for the new 007 movie Spectre was released on Friday and shows star Daniel Craig hot on the trail of yet another shady syndicate of nefarious types, this time adrift from MI6, ...

2015-03-28 U.S. Technology

TechSpot   

Slack user database compromised, counters with two-factor authentication and ...   
TechSpot
Slack, the company behind the team communication tool by the same name, revealed on Friday that its database was compromised by hackers during a four-day period in February. No financial or payment information was accessed or compromised although ...

2015-03-28 U.S. Business

MiamiHerald.com   

Ellen Pao loses sex bias case against Kleiner   
USA TODAY
SAN FRANCISCO — A jury ruled against Ellen Pao on Friday in her sex discrimination case against venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. The jury found Kleiner Perkins did not discriminate against Pao on the basis of gender, did not keep her ...

2015-03-28 U.S. U.S.

USA TODAY   

OU probe: SAE chant originated on national frat cruise   
USA TODAY
The University of Oklahoma will hire a new vice president to handle diversity efforts in the wake of the racist chant that made national headlines earlier this month, the university's president announced Friday. University president David Boren announced the ...

2015-03-28 U.S. World

NBCNews.com   

Amanda Knox Case: Italian Court Overturns Murder Conviction   
NBCNews.com
The highest court in Italy on Friday has overturned the murder convictions of Amanda Knox and her ex-boyfriend in the sensational 2007 stabbing death of her British roommate. The ruling was the latest turn in an odyssey of international justice for Knox, who ...