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Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl was released by the Taliban in Afghanistan over the weekend after five years in captivity. Since then, several questions have swirled around why he left his post, how he was captured and how the Obama administration obtained his release: Is he a deserter? Various media reports, based on accounts of soldiers who served […]
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Handwriting might be a lost art, but educators should make sure it lives on in the classroom. According to a new study , Pam Mueller and Daniel Oppenheimer of Princeton University and UCLA Los Angeles respectively, students who write out their notes by hand actually learn more than those to type their notes on laptops. Over the course of several experiments, Mueller and Oppenheimer tested students’ memories for factual detail, conceptual comprehension, and synthesizing capabilities after half of them took notes by hands and the other half took notes by way of computer. Students who used laptops cranked out more […]
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STORY HIGHLIGHTS Images of Edinburgh’s Giles Street on Google Street View appear to show an axe murder But mechanics Dan Thompson and Gary Kerr say they staged the "murder" for a laugh Thompson said he spotted the car coming and grabbed Kerr in time to set-up the tableau He said that the image was spotted by a supplier and police later visited to investigate (CNN) — The images are shocking. A man apparently wielding an ax looms over a figure lying spreadeagled on the cobbled road, clad in red overalls. The first man turns to face the camera as […]
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The $100 billion solar power industry is gaining a lot of attention both globally and domestically, attracting high-profile investment from Wall Street giants such as Apple , Google and Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway . The United States is the world’s third-largest solar market, right behind China and Japan , and it’s growing rapidly not just because of private investment, but also because of the Obama Administration’s efforts to make progress against global climate change . One of the most desirable locations for building domestic solar facilities is in the Mojave Desert —25,000 square miles of sun-baked terrain spanning southeastern […]
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The economy is improving — or so headlines tell us almost every day. But is that true? The answer to that question depends on the time frame used for comparison, whether inflation is taken into account and how you measure improvement. News reports tend to focus on the short term — on yesterday, on last year compared with the year before. But look back farther in time and an overwhelming case can be made that the vast majority of Americans are worse off. Indeed, coming out of the Great Depression eight decades ago, the vast majority fared vastly better […]
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Amid heated rhetoric, military law experts weigh in on whether a case can be made for desertion The circumstances surrounding the release of Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl continue to ignite controversy , with mounting calls that he be prosecuted for desertion for having allegedly walked away from his base in 2009. The U.S. takes desertion seriously. Under military law, desertion in wartime can carry the death penalty. But despite mounting speculation and heated rhetoric, legal experts tell Al Jazeera that the military would be hard-pressed to make a legal case for desertion. And the military, while saying it will review […]
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