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The North-South Divide on Two-Parent Families - Note for a Lecture, "E...
nytimes.com: Link contains interactive map (with explanation for the colors) and additional links within the text The North-South Divide on Two-ParentFamiliesJUNE 11, 2015David...
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Only in America? Pizza Hut’s newest creation is a pizza with a 28-hot dog crust
washingtonpost.comBy Elahe Izadi June 10 at 3:20 PM Just look at this thing. (Pizza Hut)Take a moment to let this concept work its way through your mind.Imagine a pizza, cooked up just like any other...
View ArticleReport: 4 police killings in 24 hours bring total to 500: Note for a Lecture,...
usatoday.comOfficers in at least four states shot and killed four suspects overnight, three that were armed, authorities said Wednesday.And cumulatively, the number of fatal police shootings has...
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Spy vs "Spy" on Prague's Charles Bridge .. (from an edited Facebook entry)
John Brown12 hrs ·Via PF"As recounted by The Billion Dollar Spy, one CIA officer new to the Soviet station was amused to sometimes reach for his coat only to find it had vanished. (Later, it would...
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How Studying or Working Abroad Makes You Smarter
Annie Murphy Paul @anniemurphypaulApril 29, 2014, Time; via MT on Facebook Ryan Donnell—Getty Images/Aurora CreativeYoung woman at museum.Research shows that experience in other countries makes us...
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George Soros predicts class war and riots: Note for a Lecture, "E Pluribus...
telegraph.co.uk; via MDDP on facebookGeorge Soros, the billionaire investor, has predicted riots on the streets and global class war as the economic downturn results in a new "age of fallibility".Image...
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A Facebook comment on doughnuts and public diplomacy (slightly edited)
article via ACP on FacebookPeople tried to eat healthier. Instead, doughnut sales went up.The doughnut business is resilient.WASHINGTONPOST.COMJohn Brown "Tastiest" is, of course, the hole in the...
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Reflections on contemporary art museums, upon the opening of Moscow's "Garage...
Hili Perlson, news.artnet.com:"The Garage Museum for Contemporary Art is opening the doors of its new permanent home at Gorky Park to the public tomorrow [June 12]. The building—formerly a restaurant...
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Don’t Make Jokes About Bombs, and No Nude Sunbathing
Via an FB friend[JB comment: Nothing in this silly article, essentially a Euro-centered (nothing about Africa or Australia), internet-produced puff piece on how a rather naive ex-MSM servant/journalist...
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QuickFacts Beta UNITED STATES - Note for a Lecture, "E Pluribus Unum? What...
census.gov; please note that the Census does not consider "hispanic" a "race" (i.e., "black,""white"); see.PEOPLEPopulationiPopulation estimates, July 1, 2014, (V2014)318,857,056iPopulation estimates,...
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Whites pass for black to gain empathy, experts say in wake of Dolezal case -...
usatoday.com Melanie Eversley, USA TODAY1:38 a.m. EDT June 13, 2015(Photo: Colin Mulvany, AP)In history and in many black American families, there's talk of black people passing for white, especially...
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11 ways race isn’t real - Note for a Lecture, "E Pluribus Unum? What Keeps...
vox.comUpdated by Jenée Desmond-Harris on October 10, 2014, 9:20 a.m. ET @jdesmondharrisjenee.desmondharris@voxmedia.comTWEET (799) SHARE (9,401) +It was surprising — and, to many, annoying — to learn...
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Too Quick on the Draw: Militarism and the Malpractice of Diplomacy in America
via THFreeman image fromRemarks to the Academy of Philosophy and LettersAmbassador Chas W. Freeman, Jr. (USFS, Ret.), Linthicum Heights, Maryland, 13 June 2015 The late Arthur Goldberg, who served on...
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Dasha Zhukova: Russian Public Now Less Skeptical About Contemporary Art
The founder of Moscow's Garage Museum of Contemporary Art speaks on the occasion of its grand re-opening, and discusses politics, the ruble, and Russia's approach to experimental workby Lili Rosboch,...
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A Facebook entry on Hillarious Clinton and her extravagant speaking fees at...
via LH on facebookWelcome to Hillary Island, a Pleasant Little Police StateFor the first big speech of her 2016 campaign, Hillary Clinton turned a little-known strip of New York into a serene...
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American English -- An edited Facebook note
John Brown Am a patriot, but at the risk of being investigated by the FBI, may I note that today's "American English" consists increasingly of the verbal tic "like" and the unbearable "global fry,"...
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A majority of English-speaking Hispanics in the U.S. are bilingual - Note for...
JENS MANUEL KROGSTAD AND ANA GONZALEZ-BARRERAAbout six-in-ten U.S. adult Hispanics (62%) speak English or are bilingual, according to an analysis of the Pew Research Center’s 2013 National Survey of...
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Утопия советской пивной "Гараж"открылся
kommersant.ruФото: Анатолий Жданов / Коммерсантъ15.06.2015Открытие музей В парке Горького открылся новый музей современного искусства "Гараж", созданный по проекту знаменитого голландского архитектора...
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Ping pong and polka dots in Gorky Park: Moscow's Garage gallery opens
[JB Note: “There is something incredibly generous about Soviet architecture” - Rem Koolhaas -- see below]Image from entry, with caption: Reflected in a mirror, a woman views an exhibition in the Garage...
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