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12/26/14
TechNews for the week: December 22;
War, Politics and Reports (Also, see Finance and Economics)
Iran and US: phantom allies in the war against IS; Iran will not seek to resume diplomatic ties with US; ISIS Closing in on Israel from the North and the South;
Israel carries out airstrike on Hamas site in Gaza; Palestinians say Gaza reconstruction pledges unfulfilled; Israel approves 380 new east Jerusalem settler homes;
Netanyahu Dismisses Attempt to Bar Him From Leadership Race; Israel elections: Can revitalized Labor stop country's shift to the right?
Egypt and Qatar grow closer;
Ukraine-NATO Alliance Escalates Looming War Against Angry Russia;
Judge seems skeptical of challenge to Obama immigration plan; Probe fails to link IRS scandal to White House;
Court strikes down North Carolina ultrasound abortion law; North Carolina judges uphold GOP-drawn voting districts;
Republicans weigh big changes at Congressional Budget Office; House GOP Pushes New Rule to Boost Tax Changes;
Off duty, black cops in New York feel threat from fellow police; Ill will toward NYPD lingers for blacks, Latinos;
GOP learns lessons from Sam Brownback's tax scare;
Congressman Michael Grimm (R-NY) To Plead Guilty To Tax Evasion;
Math, science and technology:
Security issues
Math and science
Web and computing issues
SC Politics
Restore Trust in Government;
Finance and Economics
U.S. 3rd Quarter GDP Best Since 2003; How businesses created pensions to thwart unions;
Oil Crash Exposes New Risks for U.S. Shale Drillers; Shale Producer Cuts Spending 41% on Oil Crash;
Gulf Oil Exporters Blame Non-OPEC Producers for Glut; Saudis to Non-OPEC Producers: Cut Your Own Output, We're Good;
Keystone Would Have Only "Nominal Impact" For US; Work Begins On Offshore Wind Project Of New Jersey Coast;
Nicaragua launches construction of inter-oceanic canal; China Offers Russia Help With Currency Swap Suggestion;
Other news
Legislators are making fools of Michigan citizens;
LAPD celebrate Michael Brown's killing with racist song;
How Sonia Sotomayor became the Supreme Court's preeminent defender of civil liberties;
Education:
Common Core State Standards aren't so easy to replace;
Employment and earnings weighed in college-rating plan;
GAO: Education Department Should Strengthen Oversight of Accreditors;
12/19/14
TechNews for the week: December 19; December 17; December 15;
War, Politics and Reports (Also, see Finance and Economics)
US claims Isis jihadis demoralised by heavy losses from air strikes; Iraqi Kurds retake besieged Mt Sinjar; Iran's support for Syria tested by oil price drop;
Israel vote puts PM, centre-left on collision course; Israeli parliament seeks to bar Arab lawmaker; Israel arrests members of Jewish extremist group;
Israel, Palestinians gird for showdown over U.N. resolution on withdrawal; Israel Hit With Sharp Rebuffs From Europe; Netanyahu won't accept 'unilateral' Palestine bid;
Widening Democratic Party divisions on the Israeli-Palestinian issue;
Taliban storm Pakistan school; at least 126 dead;
Putin blames the West for Russia's ruble woes;
Senate passes sweeping $1.1 trillion spending bill; House Roll Call: Spending Bill; Gun rights advocates call on Republicans to defund the government;
An abrupt end for the least productive Congress in modern history; McConnell Says New Senate Will Start With Keystone;
Fact Checker: Cheney's claim that the U.S. did not prosecute Japanese soldiers for waterboarding; Report details intimate role of doctors in interrogations;
The Supreme Court redefined California's boundaries with this crazy document; SCOTUS: Police can stop you for violating nonexistent laws they think are real;
Scalia on Retirees Losing Their Health Insurance: 'I Can't Feel Bad About It';
Obama seeks to resume full diplomatic ties with Cuba; Is Obama's new immigration policy already in legal trouble?
How the VA gave Congress and the media false information;
Brownback's Tax Cuts Not Set in Stone as Kansas Faces Budget Shortfall;
Jeb Bush's interests face scrutiny; His Mitt Romney Problem;
Math, science and technology:
Security issues
Math and science
Web and computing issues
SC Politics
Palmetto Sunrise: U.S. Rep. Mark Sanford stock payout questioned by AP; Sanford received six-figure stock payout;
Judge tosses conviction of George Stinney, executed at 14 in 1944;
Finance and Economics
The basic reason oil keeps getting cheaper and cheaper; Saudi oil minister says crude price falls are temporary; BP hit by Russian rouble crisis;
California controller warns of $72 billion unfunded retiree benefits; What retirees need to know about the new federal pension rules;
Washington State Proposes Carbon Market, Fuel Standards, Clean Energy Funds; Methane Leaks At Drill Sites, Shows Need For EPA Regulation; New York Bans Fracking;
Crucial Nebraska Keystone ruling could come Friday;
Health spending - under control?
The future of U.S. innovation might rest on this obscure patent lawsuit;
Microsoft Sues to Stop Tech-Support Impersonator Using Name;
Other news
Your pension could go poof. Do you have a backup plan?
How all 128 FBS college football teams fared against expectations;
7 Tips: Work Fitness Into The Workday;
What Every State in the U.S. Is Worst at;
Sony, 'The Interview' and the unspoken truth: All movies are political;
Education:
Odds are stacked against low-income Americans seeking a college degree; States consider how to boost college completion rates for low-income students;
Why the Admissions Office May Be Part of the Problem of College Access;
Colleges Are Cutting Back on Credit-Card Deals; To Reduce Loan Defaults, Automate Payroll Withholding;
Breaking Down Obama's College-Ratings Plan; How the College-Ratings Plan Came About;
Why We Need a Federal Ranking System; Or is the Federal Ratings System Is a Lose-Lose Proposition;
Use Civil Law to Adjudicate Campus Sexual-Assault Cases; Academic Freedom and Repellent Speech;
At Top Athletics Programs, Students Often Major in Eligibility; New U. of Texas Center Will Seek to Curb Troubling Behavior by Athletes;
Judge Rejects Proposed Settlement of NCAA Concussions Lawsuit; NCAA Slaps U. of Georgia With $5,000 Fine for Coach's Effort to Keep Athlete Eligible;
12/12/14
TechNews for the week: December 12; December 10; December 8;
War, Politics and Reports (Also, see Finance and Economics)
Al-Qaeda group's gains in Syria undermine U.S. strategy; Syria accuses Israel of Damascus strikes;
Arabs, Europeans move to fill US void on Israeli-Palestinian conflict; Gaza Is Almost Totally Cut Off From The World, And It's Getting Ugly;
Two Israeli parties join forces against Netanyahu; Abbas backs Egypt crackdown on Gaza tunnels;
Iran's president confronts hardliners on corruption;
Republicans turn on each other over Benghazi conspiracy theories;
Senate report: Harsh CIA tactics didn't work; CIA report details brutality, dishonesty; In CIA report, an unprecedented narrative of black sites' rise and fall;
The sad echo of CIA practices in the Syrian regime's prisons; Brazil's torture report brings a president to tears;
House approves $1.01 trillion bill to fund the government; The secret GOP swipe at Obamacare--and you--in the year-end spending bill;
Congress Deal to Avoid Shutdown Includes Victory for Banks; Deal to allow pension plans to cut retiree benefits; What's in the spending bill;
Congress cuts federal financial aid for needy students To Pay Student Loan Contractors; Fossil-fuel industry plans fresh push against climate rules;
Brownback scrambles to clean up his mess;
Justices Reject Jurors' Testimony on Deliberations;
What Police Officers Think About Race and Their Job;
Math, science and technology:
Security issues
Math and science
Web and computing issues
SC Politics
Fix South Carolina's Roads Now;
Finance and Economics
U.S. stocks renew rout as oil demand seen slowing; Saudis Fire Again in Oil War Against U.S. Shale; US oil price below $60 a barrel;
Oil producers feel pinch of price slide; Demand For OPEC Oil Is Falling Off A Cliff;
Japan's economy is in even worse shape than feared, data shows; Italy hit by strike against labour reforms; Russian Ruble Slides to Record Low;
Doubts that linger over solution to 'too big to fail'; Banks urge clients to take cash elsewhere; JPMorgan faces $22B capital hole under new Fed rules;
Supreme Court rules no worker pay for security screening; Court Hears Internet Tax Case; Federal Circuit Rules on Patent Licensing Fees;
Academics Ask FTC to Stop Net Neutrality Rules; Manufacturers Group Opposes Net Neutrality Rules;
Verizon: Strong net neutrality rules won't affect our network investment;
Federal contractors now find opportunities for growth in healing, not war; High Labor Costs Stifle US Petrochemical Boom;
Millennials can afford to become homeowners - just not where many of them live; Americans are not lovin' McDonald's;
Obama's immigration policy leaves companies exposed;
Other news
3 Questions to Ask Before Putting Cameras on Cops; The Worst States for Black Americans;
Stephen Colbert: Comedy, Bill O'Reilly and the exposure of right-wing patriotism lies;
Jack Nicklaus: I'm Known as the Guy Who Ruined Cabo;
Education:
2012 Private College Executive Compensation; 36 Presidents of Private Colleges Earned More Than $1-Million;
Many Students Don't Know What They're Paying, or Borrowing, for College; Rethinking Low Completion Rates in MOOCs;
Student Reading Practices Lag Far Behind National Goals; New Math Standards Pose Problems For Some Texas Students And Teachers;
Hour Of Code Events Teach Computer Science;
Private Lenders, ED Disagree On Number Of Delinquent Student Loans; Student Loan Guarantee Agencies Adjusting To End Of Government-Backed Loans;
Watchdog Agency Cracks Down on Student-Loan 'Debt Relief' Companies ; Many Colleges Fail to Report Deals With Student-Aid Contractors;
Fraternity Members Respond to an Unflattering Spotlight; 'Rolling Stone' Account of Rape at UVa Continues to Crumble;
U.Kentucky President Denounces 'Hate-Filled' Posts About Protesters;
Payments for Athletes? Check. Players With Balanced Lives? Not So Much; U. of Alabama-Birmingham President Faces More Criticism After Cutting Football;
12/5/14
TechNews for the week: December 5; December 3; December 1;
War, Politics and Reports (Also, see Finance and Economics)
Syria's Assad regime cuts subsidies, focuses ailing economy on war effort; U.S. weighs safe zone for rebels in Syria; Iranian jets attack Isis in eastern Iraq;
U.S.-led forces conduct 20 air strikes against Islamic State; U.S. general: ISIS has training camps in Libya; Syria rebels face greater screening for U.S. training;
Pakistani Taliban squeezed by Afghan revolt, U.S. drone strikes; Iraq, Kurds Agree On Deal Over Oil Exports, Budget; Investigation finds 50,000 'ghost' soldiers in Iraqi army;
Netanyahu negotiating future government behind backs of ministers; Israel's ruling coalition just collapsed. Here's why that was inevitable;
Israel's Attorney General opposes Israel's 'Jewish state' draft law; Israeli cabinet approves ultra-Orthodox conscription law;
Budgetary chaos undermines defense; The real Benghazi scandal;
3 Major Changes Congress Wants to Make to Social Security; GOP congressional majority to change way it crunches numbers; Real world contradicts right-wing tax theories;
GOP 'Payback' to White Working Class That Voted Them in: Cut Earned Income Tax and Child Tax Credit;
Lucrative pensions for Congress draw criticism;
If The Supreme Court Reads This Study, It Could End Partisan Gerrymandering Forever;
Ghetto policing tactics follow African-Americans to suburbs;
Math, science and technology:
Security issues
Math and science
Web and computing issues
SC Politics
SC State gets $12 million loan; Deepening crisis at SC State, critics doubt another loan is the answer;
Tinkler to keep House seat after deal ends move toward new election; Gerrymandered Districts Dangerous To State's Future;
Charleston School Board fanning racial divide;
Former police chief indicted on murder charge;
Finance and Economics
U.S. monthly job gains largest in three years; wages rise;
A simple guide to the sudden collapse in oil prices; Oil price decline may drive huge shift in wealth; Dropping oil prices squeeze Alaska's budget;
In Russia, plunging oil prices inflict the pain Western sanctions could not; Putin threatens currency speculators;
Electric Vehicles, Energy Storage Provide Threats, Opportunities For U.S. Utilities;
EPA Receives Over 1.6 Million Comments On Proposed Power Plant Rules; Over 200 Firms Back Proposed Rules For Power Plants;
How pensions make investing too complex; Congress could allow pension plans to cut benefits for current retirees; Pension funds take nautical turn in hunt for higher returns;
UK slaps tax dodgers with 25 percent 'Google tax';
U.S. risk watchdog warns Tight new rules may boost shadow banks;
'Secret' patent review system raises innovation concerns; Net Neutrality Could Increase Consumer Fees;
Other news
The Physics of Productivity: Newton's Laws for Getting Stuff Done;
What America's police departments don't want you to know; Why Grand Juries Don't Indict Cops When They Kill;
Ferguson and the media circus; Eric Garner, Ferguson, and why whites just can't relate;
Education:
Most Students Don't Earn A College Degree In Four Years; Factors Contributing To Low On-Time College Graduation Rates;
Students' Long Paths to Completion Carry Major Financial Consequences; College Still Easy To Get Into For Qualified Candidates, Despite Low Acceptance Rates;
Doctoral Degrees Increased Last Year, but Career Opportunities Remained Bleak;
How dozens of failing for-profit schools found an unlikely savior; Controversy, Pushback Precede ED College Rating System;
University Of Washington Uses "Redshirt" Program For Future Engineers;
A Special Report: Alcohol's Hold on Campus; 6 Campuses and the Liquor Surrounding Them; Why Colleges Haven't Stopped Binge Drinking;
iPad Deployments To Continue at Los Angeles District in Time for Testing; FBI Steps into iPad Fiasco;
The Muddled Future of Mid-Major Athletics; Colleges should consider saying no to football bowl games;
U. of Alabama at Birmingham Jettisons Football Program;