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What Country Has the Best Higher Education System?
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Help Save the Newspaper By and For L.A. Teenagers
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Part Peace Corps, Part Venture Capital: Code for America's Plan for Public Innovation
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On Mother's Day, Celebrate All Kinds of Mamas
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The 'Map of Life' Will Track Every Plant and Animal on the Entire Planet
today's top stories from our friends at pitchfork

The Sacketts say they just wanted to build a lake house. But their case against the EPA could give corporations more leeway to pollute waterways.

As you may have heard, venerable investment house Bear Stearns is no more. Hopefully, the government-arranged buyout by JP Morgan will prevent any...
John McCain, if you haven't heard, has fired five top aides in the last eight days for their lobbying ties. Yesterday, his campaign outlined...
In case you missed it, Nicholas Kristof had an interesting piece about Afghanistan late last week where he posits that instead of a doomed-to-fail...
A team of geologists is currently being held hostage in remote Russia by a pack of ten-foot-tall, ton-and-a-half brown bears.As many as 30 mean,...

When a bear meets his first existential crisis.

More than two million men and women have served or continue to serve in Iraq and Afghanistan. Looking for a simple way to support them today?
That's right folks--or, rather, that's possibly right folks...NAU researches have posited that what appear to be football field-sized holes on the...
"Make no mistake: We are experts in the application of violence. We are attacking to seize control of the population from the Taliban. The people...
The NFL sends all the loser merchandise from the big game to a relief organization that works mainly in Africa. On one hand, it seems like a noble...

As part of the war effort, an aircraft worker checks electrical assemblies at the Vega Aircraft Corporation in Burbank, California, in June, 1942.
Damien Hirst has a lot more dollars than he did last week, but he has far fewer formaldehyde-submerged dead animals. Meanwhile, in...
In this new ad for the Nissan Leaf, the majestic polar bear, his habitat crumbling, makes the lonely trek to suburban America. But to what end?...
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He's cute, cuddly, and looking for a shot of insulin. Jerry the Bear is not your average stuffed animal.
Obama's Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said today that he won't be overturning that 11th-hour rule that Bush imposed on his way out of office. The...
Not only are robots being used for military offensives, but they are also being deployed to rescue wounded soldiers. These robot medics can...
Timothy Geithner has announced his bank rescue plan, which seems to amount to the government buying horrible assets from banks at grossly inflated...
So you wake up one day, after a full night's sleep, and you're feeling good. You sip some coffee, you read the paper. Maybe a morning dove...
I think it’s time to face a few facts. When I began this endeavor a few months ago, I had little concept of what the moving a refugee out of...

Some of the miners are out of the hole. Find out how to watch the rest come up live.
