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Archive: ITTBF 7-19-17
There’s a good chance you’re hungry for information you didn’t even know you wanted, but Google knows — and the tech giant is going to spoon-feed it to you.
Google is following in Facebook’s footsteps, with plans to redesign its popular search page on mobile phones so that you’ll get something similar to the social media site’s News Feed. Only Google’s will just be called “feed.” Continue reading “With Entry Into Interest Curation, Google Goes Head-To-Head With Facebook”
It’s a song with several curse worse and references to prostitution.
But for some reason an Arizona teacher felt it relevant to hand an Ice Cube rap song to 8th-grade students as part of a poetry lesson.
The song, Who’s the Mack?, was released in 1990 and features such lyrics as: ‘This n—- thinks every girl’s inferior, To his tongue, get a dumb b—- sprung.’ Continue reading “Teacher removed from class after assigning Ice Cube rap song about prostitution to 8th-grade students for a ‘poetry assignment’”
The Hamptons condo and apartment complex in Tampa is quintessential Florida. Lush and modern, the stucco homes are painted in a soft rainbow of pastels. All around are palm trees, Spanish moss and lily pads.
“It is a very quiet place. You have a lot of children that live here. A lot of professionals live here, retirees,” said resident Michael Colon, 66.
But on May 19, that tranquility was shattered in an improbable case that involves four young roommates at the complex. Continue reading “Florida Killings: Radical Islam And The Far Right, Under One Roof”
We’ve all heard of ways to reduce our carbon footprint: biking to work, eating less meat, recycling.
But there’s another way to help the climate. A recent study from Lund University in Sweden shows that the biggest way to reduce climate change is by having fewer children.
“I knew this was a sensitive topic to bring up,” says study co-author Kimberly Nicholas on NPR’s Morning Edition. “Certainly it’s not my place as a scientist to dictate choices for other people. But I do think it is my place to do the analysis and report it fairly.” Continue reading “Want To Slow Global Warming? Researchers Look To Family Planning”
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Archive: ITTBF 7-18-17
Separatists in eastern Ukraine on Tuesday proclaimed a new state that aspires to include not only the areas they control but also the rest of the country. But Russia, their chief backer, sought to play down the announcement, saying it was merely part of public discussion.
The surprise announcement in the rebel stronghold of Donetsk casts further doubt on the 2015 cease-fire deal that was supposed to stop fighting in Ukraine’s industrial heartland and bring those areas back into Kiev’s fold while granting them wide autonomy. Some rebels said they have no intention of joining the new state. Continue reading “Separatists proclaim a new state to replace all of Ukraine”
They landed, one after another, in 2015: plans for nearly a dozen interstate pipelines to move natural gas beneath rivers, mountains and people’s yards. Like spokes on a wheel, they’d spread from Appalachia to markets in every direction.
Together these new and expanded pipelines — comprising 2,500 miles of steel in all — would double the amount of gas that could flow out of Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia. The cheap fuel will benefit consumers and manufacturers, the developers promise. Continue reading “Natural Gas Building Boom Fuels Climate Worries, Enrages Landowners”
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Archive: ITTBF 7-17-17
A federal grand jury has indicted a Douglas-based Border Patrol agent on suspicion of lying to law enforcement and concealing funds from authorities.
Oscar Cornejo, 39, was charged with making false statements during a background check, concealing $500,000 from creditors, and structuring $70,000 he deposited into Mexican bank accounts to avoid detection by federal authorities.
Continue reading “Douglas border agent accused of lying, disguising $70K in deposits”