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2013/05/22 04:19
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Don’t tell Florence resident Ruth Anderson that Head Start isn’t a valuable program. She points to a grown niece and nephew whose successful professional careers, she’s convinced, are attributable to...
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2013/05/22 00:47
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Loading Slideshow Pakistani NGOs workers shout slogans against US drone attacks and religious fundamentalism during a protest in Lahore on October 21, 2010. (Arif Ali/AFP/Getty Images) Protesters...
2013/05/21 08:34
2013/05/21 08:34
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A US Predator drone is checked at Fort Huachuca in Sierra Vista, Arizona, before its surveillance flight near the Mexican border. File photo: AFP Washington - President Barack Obama's administration...
2013/05/21 07:56
2013/05/21 07:56
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Published: Tuesday, May 21, 2013, 12:01 a.m. Blogger to parents: just shut the #%@ up The first time a story about explosive baby poop showed up in my Facebook news feed, I was alarmed. The culprit...
2013/05/21 05:09
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James Fallows is based in Washington as a national correspondent for The Atlantic. He has worked for the magazine for nearly 30 years and in that time has also lived in Seattle, Berkeley, Austin,...
2013/05/20 17:48
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Updated: 1:30 p.m. Monday, May 20, 2013 | Posted: 12:58 p.m. Monday, May 20, 2013 CNN's Peter Bergen writing book on terrorism in US FILE - This April 23, 2013 file photo shows Peter Bergen,...
2013/05/20 14:58
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Four years after a federal takeover of most of the trillion-dollar student loan industry, opportunities are emerging for private investors to make money. One could be the business of restructuring...
2013/05/20 09:53
2013/05/20 09:53
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US terror drone kills two in central Yemen File photo shows a US killer drone. According to the New America Foundation, the US killer drone attacks in Yemen almost tripled in 2012, surging from 18...
2013/05/20 09:53
2013/05/20 09:53
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Many colleges are offering more merit aid to recruit high-achieving students — often, advocates say, to the detriment of low-income students. “With their relentless pursuit of prestige and revenue,...
2013/05/20 09:00
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The Board of Trustees approved a nearly $2 million decrease in financial aid funding Friday, the first drop in six years. Vice Provost for Academic Affairs and Planning Forest Maltzman defended the...
2013/05/19 13:15
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COLUMBUS, Ohio — Once upon a time, Google concerned itself with seemingly benign, profit-driven things: the optimal position of online ads for erectile dysfunction drugs, mapping the location of every...
2013/05/18 19:27
2013/05/18 19:27
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What's a college education really worth to you? While that question may be difficult to answer, a new bill is attempting to give families a bit more clarity about what they might expect to gain from...
2013/05/18 18:44
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When he testifies to the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations next week AppleApple‘s CEO, Tim Cook, is expected to propose changes on the rules about how and when US corporations are taxed...
2013/05/18 18:31
2013/05/18 18:31
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An apparent US drone attack has killed four suspected Al-Qaida militants in southern Yemen and destroyed an explosives-packed truck, tribal sources said on Saturday. They occurred on Friday night in...
2013/05/18 04:09
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James Fallows is based in Washington as a national correspondent for The Atlantic. He has worked for the magazine for nearly 30 years and in that time has also lived in Seattle, Berkeley, Austin,...
2013/05/17 20:44
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One of the strangely charming aspects of the CEO class in America (and one they share with most of Congress) is their ability to tune out the actually pressing issues of the day – the weakening...
2013/05/16 22:39
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The U.S. Congress is rethinking the broad authority it gave presidents to wage a war on terror after the Sept 11, 2001, terrorist attacks in light of how President Barack Obama has used the power to...
2013/05/16 22:21
2013/05/16 22:21
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Matt Miller, a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress and co-host of public radio’s “Left, Right & Center,” writes for The Washington Post. THE DOW has cracked 15,000 and the S&P is near...
2013/05/16 17:11
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We like to view higher education as the "great equalizer" that leads to social mobility. But selective colleges have long been accused of perpetuating class divides, rather than blurring them. A...
2013/05/15 02:20
2013/05/15 02:20
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The justification that U.S. officials cite in international law for killing terrorism suspects with drones is not accepted outside the United States, not even by America’s allies, the U.N. official...