Death toll in Syria, the metric system in the US, and a flamenco music group

Death toll in Syria, the metric system in the US, and a flamenco music group
Death toll in Syria, the metric system in the US, and a flamenco music group

Death toll in Syria, the metric system in the US, and a flamenco music group

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Volunteers are reading the names of the estimated 200,000 Syrian casualties of the bloody civil war in front of the White House. We talk to one of the lead organizers of the movement. Also, we discuss why the metric system just can’t seem to be implemented in the States and a flamenco group performs on Weekend Passport. PHOTO: In This April 21, 2014, file photo, provided by the anti-government activist group Aleppo Media Center (AMC), which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, shows a Syrian man holding a girl as he stands on the rubble of houses that were destroyed by Syrian government forces air strikes in Aleppo, Syria.(AP Photo/Aleppo Media Center AMC, File)