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Earthquake Fault Lines Explained (National Geographic)
This aerial photo shows the San Andreas Fault, a large strike-slip fault in California.PHOTOGRAPH BY LLOYD CLUFF, CORBISDan VerganoNational GeographicPUBLISHED JANUARY 15, 2014We all have our faults,...
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Another Huge Pro-Business Group Proclaims Obamacare A "Key Entitlement"
Randall Stephenson, chairman and CEO of AT&T and chairman of the Business Roundtable.By ROBERT SCHLESINGERJanuary 15, 2014Add another major business group to the ranks of Obamacare accepters....
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Huge Advance In Diagnosis Of Malaria
Plasmodium Falciparum (stained green)amidst red blood cells***MalariaWikipediahttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malaria200,000,000 people infected yearly.Of those, c. 1,000,000 die.Needle-Free Transdermal...
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A Long Road To 'High Hopes': NPR Interview With Bruce Springsteen
Audio file and the remaining transcription to Bruce's NPR interview: http://www.npr.org/blogs/therecord/2014/01/14/262485987/a-long-road-to-high-hopes-an-interview-with-bruce-springsteenBruce...
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NPR: Muslim Women Challenge American Mosques: 'Now Is The Time'
Most American mosques do a poor job of including women, according to a recent study co-sponsored by the Islamic Society of North America. Sometimes that means subpar women's prayer spaces, a lack of...
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Where Is The Healthiest (And Unhealthiest) Place In The World To Eat
The U.K. has plenty of fresh produce available, such as these vegetables on display at a garden show in Southport, England. But these healthy options cost more in the U.K. than in any other country in...
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Inequality Riddles
Protestors listen to speeches at the \"Occupy Wall Street\" protest in Washington, D.C., in on October 2011.By Matt Miller, Published: January 15, 2014We’re poised this year for an extended debate on...
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Koch Brothers Spend Millions To Subvert Obamacare
"Americans for Prosperity, a group financed in part by the billionaire Koch brothers, has spent an estimated $20 million on television advertising that calls out House and Senate Democrats by name for...
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E.J. Dionne: Rep. George Miller And The Lost Art Of Tough Liberalism
"[George Miller] hails from a time when liberals didn't apologize for trying to make the country fairer and notes that he won his first race on the basis of only two promises: "to end the Vietnam War...
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House Republicans To Release Immigration Principles. Could Legalize 6 Million
Inside the House GOP's immigration push. "House Republican leaders are within weeks of releasing their principles for immigration reform -- a blueprint that will detail positions on everything from...
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Kid Invents Better Sand Bag
Those young whippersnappers interlude This kid came up with sandless sandbags, and they work.
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2013 In Extreme Sports: Do Not Attempt These Stunts Outside Asylum
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXzwOKyGlSA&wpisrc=nl_wonk
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Literal Truth: Poverty Is Making People Sick Because They Can't Afford Food
"A full belly does not believe in hunger"Italian Proverb(A centrally-heated house does not believe in cold.)***"That's what a new paper in Health Affairs by Hilary Seligman, Ann Bolger, David Guzman,...
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Arizona First State To Eliminate Veteran Homelessness
"Today they are neighbors and participants in a program that White House officials have said has led Phoenix to become the first community in the country to end homelessness among veterans with long or...
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Federal Contracts Plunge, Squeezing Private Sector, Jeopardizing Recovery
"After spiraling higher for much of the last decade, the value of federal contracts awarded to companies is falling rapidly. In the fiscal year that ended Sept. 30, the total fell by $58 billion, or...
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Two Words (And A Phrase) Not Found In The Conservative Lexicon
specious (adj.) late 14c., "pleasing to the sight, fair," from Latin speciosus "good-looking, beautiful, fair," also "showy, pretended, plausible, specious," from species "appearance, form, figure,...
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John Birch Society Activist: Nullify Obamacare And Rely On Churches For...
Alan: The kind of idealism that believes the world's problems can be solved by religion alone is as unhinged those fundamentalists who pray over the dead bodies of loved ones believing their prayers...
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Obamacare Helps Ex-Convicts. That’s A Good Thing!
BY HAROLD POLLACKJanuary 16, 2014As a child, the Italian writer Ignazio Silone once joked to his father about a ragged prisoner, handcuffed between two policemen, being dragged off to prison. His...
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The Supreme Court Gutted The Voting Rights Act. Bipartisan "Gang" Wants It Back
BY DYLAN MATTHEWSJanuary 16, 2014It's rare that you can get Reps. Jim Sensenbrenner (R-Wis.) and John Conyers (D-Mich.) to agree on much of anything. The former, after all, introduced the USA PATRIOT...
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