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Let It Bleed: No American Action Can Resolve the Syrian Conflict
Punishing the Assad regime will sink the United States more deeply than ever into the epicenter of a widening regional conflict. No American action can resolve this, writes Christopher Dickey.
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'Make techno music for fun, not money'
Berlin's legendary techno clubs are synonymous with the city and famous the world over. DJ and sociologist Jan-Michael Kühn (aka DJ Fresh Meat) tells DW how mainstream interest in the scene is a double-edged sword.
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The Most Dangerous City in the World Is Not Where You Think It Is
There's a war brewing in Central America.
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How Many People Were Killed by Love Canal?
The surprising statistics of environmental cancers.
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Where Have All the Fat Rappers Gone? Or, How Hip-Hop Lost All the Weight
In the halcyon ’90s, being a heavy rapper was in. Now? It’s more of a punch line. Emilia Petrarca traces hip-hop’s evolution through waistlines—and explains how we got from Big Pun to Theophilus London.
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27 Badass Ladies Who Secured Your Right to Vote
Check out our list of 27 badass ladies who secured women's right to vote.
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How Twitter Dodged Attack That Took Down New York Times
While the New York Times and Google Inc. had visitors to their sites redirected this week by hackers, the microblogging service was better able to deflect attacks because of a simple tool called a registry lock. Like alerts sent to credit-card users when something bad happens, the feature notifies website managers of attempts by intruders to tamper with critical information, such as Web-address data.
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A Cooler Pacific May Be Behind Recent Pause In Global Warming
A in the journal Nature could help explain why the Earth's average temperature hasn't increased during the past 15 years — despite a long-term trend of global warming.
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Fort Hood shooter sentenced to death for 2009 killings
A military jury on Wednesday sentenced a U.S. Army psychiatrist to death for murdering 13 people in 2009 at Fort Hood, Texas, where he gunned down unarmed soldiers in what he later called retaliation for U.S. wars in the Muslim world.
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How Apple Does Sentimental Consumerism
In marketing and branding materials, the computer giant promises to strengthen your relationship with loved ones.
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What Obama Didn’t Say in His March on Washington Speech
To be fair, in his speech commemorating the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington, the president did address economic fairness. But he missed a point on racial justice, says Jamelle Bouie.
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The Family Plot: The Surratts Versus Lincoln
Mary Surratt entered the courtyard of the Old Arsenal Prison in Washington, D.C. Behind her filed three other who had plotted to kill President Abraham Lincoln. A sweltering sun beat down on four freshly dug graves and four pine coffins. Only the day before, Surratt had learned that she would be the first woman to be executed by the United States government.
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Better Safe Than Syria
If we keep our distance, you won’t have to stomach dead U.S. soldiers. But can you stomach all the dead Syrians?
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Every Hurricane of the Past 170 Years in One Map
A beautiful, unusual map that shows decades of foul ocean weather.
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Financial Milestones to Hit in Every Decade
It’s impossible to predict everything in life, which is why it’s vital to have a plan both for those major events that are part of many people’s lives and for unexpected events that can have a big financial impact.
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9 questions about Syria you were too embarrassed to ask
The United States and allies are preparing for a possibly imminent series of limited military strikes against Syria, the first direct U.S. intervention in the two-year civil war, in retaliation for President Bashar al-Assad’s suspected use of chemical weapons against civilians. If you found the above sentence kind of confusing, or aren’t exactly sure why Syria is fighting a civil war, or even where Syria is located, then this is the article for you
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Chemical weapons in Syria: How did we get here?
In light of Syria's suspected chemical weapons use, here's a quick-read cheat sheet about the Syrian civil war.
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Golf ball retrieval suit in the 1920s.
Caddy Mozart Johnson in his new golf safety outfit. Photograph. Around 1920/30. Los Angeles.
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We Sued the Oil Industry So New Orleans Can Survive
After Hurricane Katrina, which struck eight years ago August 29, and the collapse of the levee system—a system entirely designed and built by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers—Louisiana wanted a new kind of local levee board, one made up of flood experts instead of political appointees.
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How snacking became respectable
Before they became standard fare in American life, snacks drew suspicion and even scorn.
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