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Meet the NASA astronaut who is still excited to fly after 3 rockets exploded
Lindgren is scheduled to fly to the International Space Station on July 22. But as it looks into a previous rocket failure, it hasn't given the green light yet.
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A Woman in Uniform
Commissioned and written before the Grand Jury verdict and the NYPD officer killings, a supersmart female sergeant gives us her personal (and prescient) account of life inside the NYPD blues.
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Ebola Survivors May Be the Key to Treatment—For Almost Any Disease
Ebola survivors’ immune systems now make antibodies to the virus. Those antibodies are, essentially, the ideal medicine. By Erica Check Hayden.
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What Makes Work Meaningful? Ask a Zookeeper
In interviews with zookeepers, researchers found that good feelings about work ran deeper than a standard survey metric like job satisfaction could capture.
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The Subculture of Embattled Abortion Workers
I remember what I was doing when I learned that Dr. George Tiller had been murdered six years ago. It was the weekend of my college graduation and I was about to spend six weeks in my hometown of Sydney, Australia before moving to New York City... By Chloe Angyal.
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What’s Killing the Babies of Vernal, Utah?
A fracking boomtown, a spike in stillborn deaths and a gusher of unanswered questions.
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L.A. to Nepal
Nepal, Haiti, 9/11 - California Task Force Two goes wherever disaster strikes.
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SEC Chair’s Conflicts Fuel Sympathy for Wall Street, Group Says
A new report said U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Chair Mary Jo White let her longstanding ties to Wall Street skew her ability to police the finance industry, adding to the litany of complaints by left-leaning groups about her tenure...
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How One U.S. Soldier Blew the Whistle on a Cold-Blooded War Crime
William Langewiesche dissects the murder of four Iraqi prisoners, the military's response, and how one warrior fought to become a better man.
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The Most Efficient Way to Save a Life
Inspired to make a meaningful donation, I wondered: What is the best charitable cause in the world, and was it crazy to think that math and logic could help me find it?
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Possible Pentagon destruction of evidence in NSA leak case probed
The Justice Department acknowledges the probes in a letter last week to a federal magistrate judge who recently received the allegations from lawyers for former NSA senior official Thomas Drake.
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The Kansas Supreme Court’s Only Option
Sue Gov. Sam Brownback in federal court. By Mark Joseph Stern
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Whistleblowers Testify on High Risk of Retaliation They Face for Going to Congress
United States government whistleblowers, who have gone to Congress in the past, have had a hugely positive impact. However, often government employees, who blow the whistle on fraud, waste, abuse and other examples of wrongdoing to members of Congress, face great risk to their livelihoods. By Kevin Gosztola.
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Obama’s Slap in Britain’s Face
Shaker Aamer, a British resident held at Guantánamo since 2002, has been cleared for release. Why won’t the U.S. act?
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Will TPP Kill the Post Office?
Will TPP enable the privatizers to declare things like our beloved U.S. Postal Service, schools and roads to be
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U.S. military and civilians are increasingly divided
Despite civilians' widespread admiration for troops, there's little overlap between their worlds ¶ Congress with lowest rate of military service authorized today's wars, led by 3 presidents with no active duty ¶ One-half of 1% of U.S. population enlisted — lowest rate since between World War I and II
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Republican FEC commissioner admittedly blocking complaints against Republicans
Republican FEC Commissioner Lee Goodman acknowledged that he’s been exercising his “discretion” to hold up complaints against Republican and conservative groups.
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Political Fights Throw Sand in Gears of S.E.C.
A political battle has disrupted the case against the Computer Sciences Corporation, forcing on-again, off-again negotiations that at times have imperiled the case altogether.
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You’re All Out
A defense attorney uncovers a brazen scheme to manipulate evidence, and prosecutors and police finally get caught. By Dahlia Lithwick.
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Life and Death on the Avocado Trail
A fearless Mexican-American cook routinely travels 2,000 miles, driving through a drug war and slipping out of kidnappers’ fingers, all in the name of a decent mole poblano for her New York customers.
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