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Obama administration weighs the future of America's nuclear arsenal
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The United States has long been the premier nuclear power in the world. With the Cold War over, however, does maintaining and upgrading America’s aging nuclear arsenal make sense?In a major 2009 speech in Prague, President Obama promised to reduce... more
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February, 22, 2012
More and more, social media and technology, and protest organizing go hand-in-hand. The digital world has allowed those involved to become more closely, and regularly connected. Organizing and protests have evolved along with your internet, handheld device and social networking worlds.Listen to...
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February, 20, 2012
I was recently forced into confronting a former self. That self exists in my former Yahoo account- a testament to my life in middle and high school. It's shocking, but I didn't always worship at the altar of Gmail and all that is Holy. This long dormant account took on a life of its own a few...
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February, 15, 2012
The United States has long been the premier nuclear power in the world. With the Cold War over, however, does maintaining and upgrading America’s aging nuclear arsenal make sense?In a major 2009 speech in Prague, President Obama promised to reduce the role of nuclear weapons in America’s national...
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February, 14, 2012
The human brain is full of wonder, mystery, perhaps even spirit. But it’s also a machine. And so even though it might sound far-fetched to suggest that a device can beam happiness into someone’s head, for some people living with depression that is the truth.Transcranial magnetic stimulation, the...
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February, 13, 2012
As Americans spend more of their lives online, companies are finding an increasing number of ways to follow our data trails and find out all sorts of things about our spending habits, our likes and our dislikes.The information is being used to determine things like a person’s access to credit,...
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February, 09, 2012
Though the CIA's drone campaign is meant to target suspected militants in Pakistan, a new report says it's also killing dozens of civilians. The report, released by the London-based Bureau of Investigative Journalism, says that U.S. drones have hit civilians who, for instance, rushed to rescue...
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