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8/29/14
TechNews for the week: August 29; August 27; August 25;
War, Politics and Reports (Also, see Finance and Economics)
U.S. strikes in Syria against Islamic State would be hindered by intelligence gaps; Syria ready to work with any state to fight ISIS;
Syria warns against U.S. strikes on Islamic State on its soil; ISIS Achilles' heel is defending what it has won; U.S. rules out coordinating airstrikes in Syria with Assad;
Netanyahu warns Gaza civilians after Israel destroys apartment block; air strikes target more Gaza high-rises; Israel and Hamas agree ceasefire in Gaza;
Why the war on Gaza is bad for Israel; Gaza truce holding but Israel's Netanyahu under fire at home;
Afghan presidential inauguration delayed with candidates deep in conflict;
Ukraine president calls snap election as he prepares for Putin meeting; Russian soldiers' capture clouds Putin-Poroshenko talks; Ukraine Rebels push into port of Novoazovsk;
Russian forces have entered Ukraine; Russians troops fighting in Ukraine? Naw. They're just on 'vacation'; Putin's view of 'New Russia';
Putin hails Ukraine separatists; Kiev mulls joining NATO;
Boehner Profited from a Corporate Inversion Deal;
GA GOP Senate Candidate Perdue: 'Don't Worry About That Unemployment Number';
Secret McConnell Recording Shows Need for Money in Politics Reform; Documents Allege Scott Walker Pressured Groups To Donate To Campaign;
Two counties in California want to form the 51st state;
Math, science and technology:
Security issues
Math and science
Web and computing issues
SC Politics
End Of Second Reconstruction Having Consequences; The New Racism: This is how the civil rights movement ends ;
Finance and Economics
Economy Grows More Than First Estimated on U.S. Investment Gains; State-by-State Guide to Taxes; Burger King in talks to buy Tim Hortons;
Sanctions-hit Russian economy nears recession; Wall Street Banks, Treasury to Discuss Cyber Attacks;
Oregon Sues Oracle Over Failed Healthcare Website; Netflix Petitions FCC to Block Comcast Time Warner Cable Merger;
U.S. Offers Religious Colleges New Accommodation on Contraceptive Insurance;
Executives Warn US Losing Technical Edge;
Boeing Moving Closer To Expanding South Carolina Facility;
Other news
State in the USA, Ranked by Beer; 23 American beers to drink before you die;
Education:
Value Of College Education Questioned; The college majors most and least likely to lead to underemployment; Commentary: Not All Stem Degrees Equal;
The 35 WORST Colleges In America - When You Consider Absolutely Everything That Matters and the 52 Best Colleges In America;
Pediatricians say teens need later school start times; Elite Colleges Fail At Recruiting Lower-Income Students; What Wellesley learned when it stopped giving out so many A's;
US Military To Launch Open Source Academy; First Impressions: Google Classroom;
Report: Campus-Banking Costs Can Add Up; Stimulus Law Didn't Protect State Financial Aid;
Student Debt in Mind, Education Dept Renegotiates Loan Servicers' Contracts;
North Dakota Universities Crumble as Oil Cash Pours In; Court Sides With U. of Missouri in Fight Over Teacher-Prep Syllabi;
Backlash From Scholars Angered by Salaita Case; Scholars Sound Alarms About Being Judged on Their Civility;
Illinois's Philosophy Dept. Declares No Confidence in University Leaders; Montana State U Chancellor Resigns Abruptly; Israeli University Professor Fired Over Political Views;
Air Force Academy Launches New Sexual Assault Prevention Policies;
College Freshmen Never Age and the Beloit Mindset List;
The College Football Grid of Shame;
8/22/14
TechNews for the week: August 22; August 20; August 18;
War, Politics and Reports (Also, see Finance and Economics)
Islamic State executes 700 people from Syrian tribe; Mosul Dam reclaimed by Iraqi, Kurdish forces; Iraqi bid to retake Tikrit from Islamic State said to stall;
Germany, Italy agree to arm Iraq Kurds; Shi'ite militia kill dozens of Iraqi Sunnis in mosque shooting; Larger battle with Islamic State is predicted;
Palestinians say Gaza is a big prison; Israelis and Palestinians agree to keep talking over Gaza; Why The War In Gaza Is Unlikely To Restart Anytime Soon;
Israeli ministers angered by Netanyahu's concessions to Hamas; Gaza Is a Pandora's Box for Netanyahu;
Hamas warns foreign airlines not to fly into Tel Aviv; rockets fired at off-shore Israeli gas well;
Iran Hardlines anxiety over Rouhani grows more acute;
India cancels peace talks with Pakistan; Khan's party quits Pakistan's parliament;
Ukraine accuses Russia of invasion after aid convoy crosses border;
County autopsy: Michael Brown shot 6 times from front; Missouri police are demanding that people stop using cameras to film their activities;
SWAT Overkill: The Danger of a Paramilitary Police Force; Police officer suspended for pointing rifle at protesters, threatening them;
Militias complicate situation on Texas border;
Some evangelicals feeling left out by Republican Party; John Boehner's Troubles With House Conservatives May Only Get Worse;
Why Rick Perry Will be Convicted;
Math, science and technology:
Security issues
Math and science
Web and computing issues
SC Politics
Citadel launches leadership department, degree;
US History course framework called 'leftist, anti-American';
Finance and Economics
What $100 Is Worth In Each State; How Much You Spend On Electricity In Each State;
Sometimes a Bumper Crop Is Too Much of a Good Thing; A bumper crop, but a bad year for farmers;
Brookings Study Finds Details Of Skills Gap; Robots Might Replace Half of Human Jobs;
America's Owners Are Greedier Now Than Ever Before; Firms fleeing U.S. tax system often don't benefit investors;
Homeowner help remains elusive in $16.5bn Bank of America fine; A Medicare scam that just kept rolling;
Blackstone, TPG near buying UK subprime mortgage lender;
FCC Extends Deadline for Net Neutrality Comments;
Appeals Court Won't Hear Aereo's New Arguments;
Other news
An uproarious, moving John Oliver is perfect on Ferguson;
Web site trys to create database of shootings by police officers;
Education:
Almanac of Higher Education 2014; ACT Scores Remain Flat as More Students Express Interest in College;
Study: Attending a For-Profit College Offers Little or No Advantage in Hiring;
Efforts To List Schools Not Recommended For Veterans Sparks Backlash; Retired General (on For-profit Board): For-Profit Technical Colleges Help Veterans Gain Career Skills;
College Trustees Urged to Be More Active in Governance; Can Board of Trustees Really Revoke A Job; U. Illinois Chancellor Speaks Out on Denial of Job to Israel Critic;
Graduate-School Offers to Chinese Students Flatten;
Why Students Should Own Their Educational Data;
Opinion: An Attack on the Ivy League Is an Attack on Meritocracy Itself;
Republicans throw a conniption over the teaching of US history; Common Core 'Brand' Finally Recognized, and 6 in 10 Don't Like It;
Judge rules against Gov. Jindal in Louisiana Common Core lawsuit;
Senators Call for Review of Air Force Academy's Handling of Sex-Assault Cases;
8/15/14
TechNews for the week: August 15; August 13; August 11;
War, Politics and Reports (Also, see Finance and Economics)
The Conflict In Gaza Explained In One Map; Israel, Palestinians Agree to New Gaza 72-hour Ceasefire; Call for Gaza control to be handed to PA;
Gaza conflict takes toll on Israel's standing in U.K. and on Hamas rocket stocks and tunnels;
Desperate and thirsty, Iraq's Yazidis seek refuge in Syria; Iraq accuses Islamic State of Yazidi atrocity, U.S. make new strikes; Following U.S. airstrikes Yazidis flood into Iraq;
U.S. warns Maliki against clinging to power in Iraq; Sunnis, Kurds shun Iraq parliament; Iraq president names new prime minister; Maliki to step aside to end deadlock;
Pentagon says Rescue mission for Yazidis on Iraq's Mount Sinjar appears unnecessary;
Humanitarian airdrops in Iraq to end but air strikes will continue; Thousands of Iraqi refugees 'still at risk' despite ending of Mount Sinjar siege;
Fighters reportedly ditching other groups for Islamic State;
Iran's president lashes out at nuke deal critics;
Pakistan: Opposition leaders lead protest march;
Syrian army takes town near Damascus in blow to rebels;
Russian aid convoy stops short of border; Putin's Ukraine gamble hastens exodus of Russian money and talent; Ukraine 'hits Russia armoured column' amid aid impasse;
Military veterans see deeply flawed police response in Ferguson; Highway patrol to take over security in riot-torn Ferguson, Mo.;
New Report Dismantles Supreme Court's Argument Against The Voting Rights Act; Judge Rules AR-15s Not Protected By The Second Amendment;
Judge rules Insurer of Louisiana College Can Refuse to Cover Contraception;
Florida Replaces Gerrymandered Congressional Maps With Nearly Identical Gerrymandered Maps; officials tell judge election under new map not feasible in 2014;
Princeton Study: U.S. No Longer An Actual Democracy;
Tea Party Leader Jim DeMint Botches 'Socialistic' Op-Ed; Texas Gov. Rick Perry indicted for abuse of power;
Math, science and technology:
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SC Politics
South Carolina Passed A Major Solar Bill And Sued The EPA; Charleston County government's drone;
New interactive map shows effects of sea level rise on Charleston;
Preaching the Gospel of Science: SC style;
Finance and Economics
Jobless claims up, trend favors strong labor market; The most corrupt states in America;
Sales tax holidays don't help the states' bottom lines; so why do it;
Comcast and Time Warner fund event for regulator; Comcast rep to customer: You only got those bogus charges refunded because you recorded our calls;
HP bombshell shocked corporate world; Banks starting to do business with legal pot dealers; Kinder Morgan deal in collusion lawsuit;
Keystone Pollution More Than US Estimated;
Amazon challenges Square with a mobile card reader of its own;
Other news
Three Charts to Email to Your Right-Wing Brother-In-Law;
You have a right to record the police;
Education:
Five Degrees That Employers Don't Want; College on the Cover: Doom and Gloom Through the Decades;
Minority populations growing in U.S. schools; Non-Legacy Students' Parents Less Engaged;
Inflated Admissions Data Led to Wrong Classes for Hundreds of Students;
Digging Through Data for the Real Story on Student Loans; Filling out the FAFSA Form;
A Lot of Folks on Campus Need an A Grad; The great grade deflation experiment, STEM vs. humanities; Princeton's report;
ED College Rating System Falls Behind Schedule;
MIT Study Shows What Factors Affect Online Learning; Online-Learning Company Faces Hundreds of Allegations of Deceiving Customers;
Can Colleges Use Data to Fix What Ails the Lecture? Google's Free LMS 'Classroom' Goes Live; 2 Great Techniques for the Flipped Classroom;
Bar Association Approves Package of Reforms for Law Schools;
Confuse Students to Help Them Learn;
Higher-Education Research Rarely Gets Replicated; Universities Spend Money On Defense Lobbying;
Are universities failing computer science students? Air Force Academy Launches Cybersecurity Major;
Antitrust Loss for NCAA; An NCAA Power Grab; How One Man Tried to Keep Money Out of College Sports-in 1936; Could the Government End the Mess in College Sports?
NCAA's Player Rules Violate Antitrust Laws; Breaking Down the Ruling; How the Ruling Could Change College Sports; a New Educational Model Is Born;
Notre Dame investigating potential academic fraud that could involve football players; 4 key players dismissed;
8/8/14
TechNews for the week: August 8; August 6; August 4;
War, Politics and Reports (Also, see Finance and Economics)
How a 72-hour truce in Gaza fell apart in less than 2 hours; US 'appalled' by 'disgraceful' UN school shelling; Israel declares 7-hour Gaza truce after fury over school strike;
Israel, Hamas accept Egyptian cease-fire plan; Palestinian shift brings war crimes case closer to Israel;
Palestinians returning home find Israeli troops left faeces and venomous graffiti; Israel strikes Gaza after militants resume rocket fire;
Special Report: The doubt at the heart of Iraq's Sunni 'revolution'; Can the Kurds sell their own oil?
Isis seizes Kurdish enclaves in Iraq; Kurds plan counter-offensive against Islamic State; ISIS Has Punched A Hole Through Kurdish Defenses In Iraq;
Kurds, Islamic State clash near Kurdish regional capital; Islamic State surges in North Iraq, near Kurdistan border; Obama authorizes airstrikes in Iraq;
Kerry in Kabul to try to break deadlock over Afghan presidency; Rival Afghan presidential candidates sign deal to cooperate;
NATO fears Ukraine invasion as Russia masses troops; Report: How scams and shakedowns brought Ukraine to its knees;
U.S. spy plane crosses into Sweden to avoid Russians;
Obama readies executive action on immigration;
Florida judge: Redraw congressional map now;
Is the race for control of the Senate over already? Five-Thirty-Eight forecast;
Tea Party loser in Mississippi GOP primary claims he actually won by 25,000 votes; Mississippi GOP Doesn't Want to Deal With McDaniel;
Kansas GOP Sen. Roberts defeats tea partyer; Iowa Senate Race: Chicken Scandal Threatens Democrat's Bid;
How the Tea Party became as corrupt as the Beltway it loathes;
Klan planning North Carolina rally to advertise new target: illegal immigrants;
Comprehensive investigation of voter impersonation finds 31 credible incidents out of one billion ballots cast;
Math, science and technology:
Security issues
Math and science
Web and computing issues
SC Politics
College of Charleston Fires Basketball Coach Accused of Mistreating Players;
The PASS scores are out and the news is not good; scores fall in all grades;
West Ashley Traffic Circle construction (finally) begins;
Finance and Economics
GE brings the 'Internet of Things' to the factory floor;
Verizon fires back at FCC over throttling brouhaha; Obama Sees Problems with FCC Net Neutrality;
K.K.R., Blackstone and TPG Private Equity Firms Agree to Settle Lawsuit on Collusion; Apple and Samsung drop all patent lawsuits outside the US;
Big Banks' 'Living Wills' Get Failing Grade; FDIC: Big banks' living wills not credible and need to be revised;
Murdoch drops Fox's bid for Time Warner; Stratasys distances itself from 3D printing pack;
Other news
5 Hacks That'll Improve Your Life;
Ann Coulter, Donald Trump Ebola Comments Prompt Christian Backlash;
Education:
Study finds Selectivity Doesn't Improve Graduation Prospects; Comparing Colleges' Net Prices Is Tricky, in More Ways Than One;
How Did the Federal Government Rate Your College a Century Ago? Missouri Governor Asks for Inquiry Into Business School's Top Ranking;
edX CEO: 'It Is Pathetic That the Education System Has Not Changed in Hundreds of Years';
Are Courses Outdated? MIT Considers Offering 'Modules' Instead; Engineering Programs Finding Success With Flipped Classroom Model;
Degrees That Could Hurt Your Kids' Career Prospects;
Colleges Increasingly Allowing Alternative Application Approaches; UNC Approves Cap on Revenue for Need-Based Aid;
After Student Protest, U. of Texas Holds Off on Proposed Internet-Access Fee;
American-Studies Group Calls for Withdrawal of Support From Israel;
Judge Rules Against NCAA in Key Antitrust Case;
NCAA gives biggest conferences power to offer student athlete stipends; For Wealthy NCAA Programs, Autonomy Is Not a Panacea;
Athletics Is Said to Drive Culture of Rape and Drug Use at Air Force Academy;
U. Maryland Will Pay $31-Million to Settle Lawsuits Over Exit From ACC;
8/1/14
TechNews for the week: August 1; July 30; July 28;
War, Politics and Reports (Also, see Finance and Economics)
AP ANALYSIS: Old story, new twists in Gaza war; Israel agrees to 24-hour Gaza ceasefire; Israel, PA lash out at Kerry over truce bid; US fuming over Israeli criticism of Kerry;
Netanyahu warns Israel to prepare for long Gaza conflict; Israel intensifies Gaza attacks after Netanyahu warning;
Israel knocks out Gaza's only power plant; Gaza conflict: US and UN condemn school shelling; U.N. accuses Israel of violating international law in Gaza;
Israel, Hamas agree to 72-hour Gaza cease-fire; Gaza militants 'seize Israeli soldier' as ceasefire ends; Gaza truce over, 50 dead in Rafah shelling;
Ayatollah Khamenei and Netanyahu: Two Sides of a Coin; In Germany, anti-Jewish slogans return to the streets;
A nation in peril: Iraq's struggle to hold together; Iraq gets U.S. to seize Kurdish oil cargo off Texas; Judge now says U.S. cannot seize Kurdish crude for now;
U.S. evacuates embassy in Libya amid clashes;
EU agrees first broad sanctions on Russia;
Court Strikes Down D.C.'s Ban On Carrying Handguns In Public; Justice Dept. files in Ohio, Wisconsin voter cases;
Satanic Temple seeks Hobby Lobby-style exemption from anti-abortion laws; Hobby Lobby Allegedly Fired Employee Due To Pregnancy;
Federal review exposes two decades of FBI forensic errors; Wikipedia blocks 'disruptive' page edits from US Congress;
House Republicans vote to sue President Obama; Republicans Have Lost Control of the Impeachment Plot They Hatched;
Senate Republicans block bill to end tax breaks for outsourcing;
'SPEAKER CRUZ IS IN THE HOUSE' - Republican Border Plan Is In Total Chaos After Conservative Revolt; House GOP pulls legislation to address immigration crisis at border;
'Do Nothing' Congress Gets Busy - Raising Campaign Cash; Senate Approves Veteran and Highway Bills; Republicans Again Violate Their Own Principles;
Cantor to resign in August;
In Tennessee, it's the tea party vs. Howard Baker's legacy ; Republican Congressional Nominee: A Woman Can Run for Office With Husband's Permission;
Political group's secret strategy revealed; Conservative group Alec devises offshoot ACCE to lobby at local levels;
Math, science and technology:
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SC Politics
Big Change Over Years For Governors: Time In Office;
The death of 19-year-old Denzel Curnell; The full SLED report;
South Carolina Science Standard Would Treat "Evolution As A Theory";
Finance and Economics
U.S. economy grew at 4 percent rate in second quarter; U.S. job growth cools, unemployment rate rises to 6.2 percent;
Medicare fiscal outlook brightens partly due to ACA; The truth about Social Security and Medicare, straight from the trustees;
'Corporate Inversion': A Gaping, Unpatriotic Tax Loophole;
Goldman mortgage deal with federal agency could reach $1.25 billion;
Shortage Of STEM Workers Said To Be A Myth;
For agencies on a budget, financial analysis as a service;
The 10 most corrupt states in the U.S.;
Other news
14 car hacks all drivers should know;
Education:
'Money' Reaches for Objectivity in College Rankings; the Rankings; Why We Can't Stop Talking About College Rankings;
The 10 Worst States for Getting an Education; Forbes' America's top colleges 2014;
How 4 Types of Families Approach Paying for College; Strategies on Affordability and Access at Regional Public Universities;
A Focus on Specific Dropouts Can Help Colleges Raise Completion Rates;
Get Politics Out of the Common Core; Temple Drops Testing Requirement;
Academia's seamier side: lying, cheating and fraud; For-Profit Colleges Still Cash In on Post-9/11 GI Bill;
Proposed Rules Seek to Keep UVa Board Members From Making a Fuss; Ouster in Hawaii Highlights Tension Between a Flagship and Its System;
NCAA Settles Head-Injury Case, With $75-Million for Testing and Research; How Deal Affects Current, Former, and Future Athletes;
What Does $75-Million Mean to the NCAA?