I'm completely capable of anything
Nico Calabria plays soccer and wrestles for Concord-Carlisle High School in Massachusetts. He summitted Mount Kilimanjaro at 13 [Vimeo] as a fundraiser to provide wheelchairs to people in Tanzania, he...
View ArticleA sea of words
Six years ago, New Dorp High School on Staten Island, NY, had a 40% dropout rate, and more than 80% of freshmen were reading below grade level. In spring 2013, the school expects an 80% graduation...
View ArticleWhat the ideal utopian world would be - with good beer
What is it like to be a woman in the Pacific Northwest craft beer industry? The 2011 documentary The Love of Beer offers a look into the lives of several women who work with beer: Tonya Cornett, the...
View ArticleWindsor vs. United States
Today, the Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit ruled that "we conclude that Section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act violates equal protection and is therefore unconstitutional" [PDF of decision]....
View Article"You can't steal an election one person at a time."
The possibility of voter fraud in the US has spawned a number of state laws requiring particular kinds of identification at the polls, as well as grassroots organizations that search public records to...
View ArticleI was living in 1993 for seventeen years
In 1993, 18-year-old Trevell Coleman shot a man in East Harlem and fled the scene. In the following years, he became part of the New York City rap community and eventually signed with Bad Boy Records,...
View Article"New diagnoses are more dangerous than new drugs"
On December 2, the American Psychiatric Association's board of trustees voted on the latest revisions to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, to be published as the fifth edition...
View ArticleBring me more genomes
"If the history of public health has until now been embodied by the map—as in British physician John Snow’s famous map, which allowed him to curb the London cholera outbreak of 1854 and to found, in...
View Article"If someone stole it, it's got to be good."
San Francisco police are investigating a burglary[SLNYT] at Mr Holmes Bakehouse in the Tenderloin: “We don’t have a particular demographic, except it’s someone who wants to make a really delicious...
View Article"Clearly, we were not prepared for the amount of human remains."
In 2014, a year before Miller died at 91, the FBI Art Crime team raided his home and discovered more than 40,000 items from North and South America, Asia, the Caribbean, Papua New Guinea, and China,...
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