Why are public high schools so bad at preparing young people for so many real jobs in the private sector? Jim Stergios of the Pioneer Institute comments.
A celebration of women’s achievements has been taking place at United Nations Headquarters in New York this month, through photography. On 13 December 2016, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and Secretary-General-designate António Guterres attended the launch by the Group of Friends for Gender Parity of an historic exhibit to illuminate some of the crucial contributions that women have made throughout the world body’s history – or, as they refer to it, ‘herstory.’
In this week's news, Juan Martin del Potro surprises with concert appearance and Australian Open announcement and Roger Federer’s holiday gift to fans.
By now you've probably seen those soulful faces staring out at you from the ads for the new movie Passengers: Jennifer Lawrence and Chris Pratt playing Aurora Land and Jim Preston, two would-be interplanetary colonists who wake up from hibernation way, way too early. They drive the film's plot and bestow the whole project with a glowy, Hollywood-blockbuster sheen. But the film's real stars are less familiar, less visible, and distinctly more intriguing. One of the standout characters is A
From gene editing and gravitational waves and the zika virus these were the top science stories of 2016.
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A drunken hymn for those with broken dreams and abandoned hope
In this week's news, spats, squabbles and emotional eruptions: We revisit the top tennis arguments of the 2016 season.
There's something about East 17's perennial Christmas ballad 'Stay Another Day'. On paper it should be terrible - all cheesy string sections and cliché chord progressions - and yet I think it's precisely because of this that the song is quite wounding, as though the stereotypical elements of it reflect the shallowness and inevitability of Christmas, the chorus leaving you staring misty-eyed into your pint as the lights go up at the end of another work Christmas party.
2016 Has been a year of incredible growth and change for Walks of Italy. In order to show our appreciation to the guides, coordinators,...
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So Julian Assange finally got to submit his statement to the elusive Marianne Ny. Things rolled pretty fast there for a while - it took only 74 months. But now it's been done.
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Keith Ellison said "At the time, I did not grasp [Louis] Farrakhan’s antisemitism," also expresses regret for opposition to assistance for Israel during last Gaza war.
The following editorial appeared in The San Diego Union-Tribune on Thursday, Dec. 22:
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WARNING: Beware galactic leprechauns with tiny nipples.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S Department of Transportation’s Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) proposes civil penalties ranging from $57,400 to $72,000 against three companies for allegedly violating the Hazardous Materials Regulations. The cases are as follows: $72,000 against Posan Industry
Drought creates big problems in California. Bad water allocation makes those problems worse. Reed Watson of the Property and Environment Research center comments.
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The microbial ecosystems inhabiting corpses could help forensic scientists determine a person’s time of death, even after almost two months. Christopher Intagliata reports.
