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7/31/15
TechNews for the week: July 31; July 29; July 27;
War, Politics and Reports (Also, see Finance and Economics)
ISIS Transforming Into Functioning State That Uses Terror as Tool;
Iran Ceases Financial Aid to Hamas in Gaza; Israeli soldiers shoot dead Palestinian near Gaza border;
Clashes rock Jerusalem's Al-Aqsa mosque; Clashes erupt between Israeli police and settlers in Beit El;
Israeli military takes over contested West Bank complex; bulldozers start demolishing West Bank settlement; Israel PM approves 300 settler homes in occupied West Bank;
U.S. 'deeply concerned' about Israeli building in West Bank, East Jerusalem;
Amnesty International: 'Strong evidence' of Israel war crimes on 'Black Friday'; Jewish "act of terrorism";
Israel Threatens Attacks On ISIS In Sinai After Launching Revenge Strikes In Syria, Lebanon;
ISIS Threat In Israel: Islamic State Supporters Threaten Christians In Jerusalem, Vow Slaughter Of Zionist Collaborators;
Oil pipeline blown up in south Turkey; Nato jets intercept Russian aircraft; more; China says U.S. 'militarizing' South China Sea;
Mullah Omar: Taliban leader 'died in Pakistan in 2013'; Walkout at Taliban leadership meeting raises specter of split;
Pentagon war fund became a budget buster Washington can't resist; Pentagon Report Calls Global Warming A National Security Threat;
Why Republicans Oppose the Iran Agreement: Follow the Money; How conservative media helped the far-right take over the Republican Party;
U.S. House conservative files motion to oust Speaker Boehner; Ted Cruz goes ballistic on Mitch McConnell in stunning Senate speech;
The war raging within the Republican Party; U.S. House won't take up Senate transportation bill;
More Illinois residents feel pain as budget impasse drags on; Kansas governor plans $63M in budget changes; In Wisconsin, It Appears You Can You Buy Justice;
Citizens United loses New York ruling over donors; Trial on N.C. election law changes will have national effect; GOP criticizes 'offensive' posts of NC GOP elections appointee;
New York Times public editor says the paper's latest story on Hillary Clinton's emails was 'a mess';
U. Cincinnati officer indicted in deadly shooting; 'I'll put a hole right through your head,' Mass. police detective tells driver;
New Hampshire thumbs its nose at Fox News over presidential debates;
Donald Trump offered access to the Republican National Committee's voter file; Trump Hates Obamacare -- How He'd Replace It;
'Oops,' He Did It Again: Can Rick Perry Survive This One?
Math, science and technology:
Security issues
Math and science
Web and computing issues
Finance and Economics
U.S. economy expanded at an annual rate of 2.3 percent in the second quarter; US jobless claims increase, but still near cycle lows;
U.S. Stocks Slide After China Crash; China Has Biggest One-Day Stock Crash Since 2007; China's heavy-handed response to its plunging stock markets;
Impact of the Chinese Economy on the U.S. Economy;
U.N. says India will have the world's largest population earlier than expected; Deep-Sea Mining Appears Imminent As UN Body Issues Exploration Contracts;
Senate Passes Three-Year Highway Bill That Renews Ex-Im Bank; Export-Import Bank is dealt a blow as it is excluded from House highway bill;
Boeing may move work abroad with Ex-Im future uncertain; GE's Immelt Says He'd Move Jobs Overseas If Ex-Im Bank Ends;
6 Countries Where GE Could Hire With Ex-Im Bank Dead; GE may ship $10 billion in work overseas as US trade bank languishes;
Aging Rail Infrastructure Threatens Safety, Efficiency Of Northeast Corridor; 365 companies, investors throw weight behind EPA's Clean Power Plan;
A big legal burden awaits small businesses, and most aren't aware of it; Something Companies have found to give their workers instead of raises;
3 pension funds sue New Jersey for billions in damages;
Amazon proposes drones-only airspace to facilitate high-speed delivery;
Buyout business continues to fuel Carlyle's profits as firm turns cautious; $4.1 Billion Industry Forecast In Crazy 3D Printing Stock Market;
Other news
The top TED talks that will change the way you work and live;
The US really has 11 separate 'nations' with entirely different cultures;
Boy Scout board approves end to blanket ban on gay adults;
Food Truck Set Ablaze After Owner Takes Stand Against Confederate Flag;
Eight books by Donald Trump. Here's what I learned;
Education:
Report: Black Students Are Among the Least-Prepared for College; Remedial Educators Warn of Misconceptions Fueling a Reform Movement;
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Accuses FAFSA Firm Of Deceptive Practices;
Kansas Underfunded Education And Cut Tenure Can't Find Enough Teachers To Fill Classrooms;
In Sign of the Times for Teaching, More Colleges Set Up Video-Recording Studios;
How the U. of Puerto Rico Plans to Ride Out a Fiscal Storm; Layoffs Take Effect at U. of Akron;
Blackboard Is for Sale in Auction That Might Draw $3-Billion Bids; Even Though Colleges Love to Hate Blackboard, It Might Sell for $3 Billion;
Campus Police Patrolling Off the Campus. Sure, but the Rules Vary;
Sports-Medicine Staffs Report Pressure to Clear Concussed Athletes Prematurely;
Ohio State suspends Bosa, Marshall, 2 others for opener;
Court Shelves Injunction in O'Bannon Case, Delaying Prospect of Player Pay;
7/24/15
TechNews for the week: July 24; July 22; July 20;
War, Politics and Reports (Also, see Finance and Economics)
Turkey to let U.S. strike Islamic State from Incirlik air base; Turkey Turns Guns on Islamic State as Clashes Spread Into Syria;
Netanyahu is pushing hard against Iran nuclear deal. But others are pushing back; How the Iran deal is good for Israel, according to Israelis who know what they're talking about
Israel, Hamas strange bedfellows when it comes to reining in ISIS in Gaza; Israel's Master Plan to Crush Iran's Nuclear Program; 47% of Israelis would back unilateral Iran strike;
Israeli PM Netanyahu facing spending scandal;
Israel Moves To Legalize West Bank Settlements As EU Pressure Grows; Israel's Army Proposes Laws To Keep Country's Arabs Out Of Palestine Region;
Afghanistan's Karzai gave up the presidency, but not the power;
U.N. Council backs Iran nuclear deal but Tehran hardliners object; Pentagon chief Carter not offering new arms deal to Israel;
Congress' to-do list grows; misstep could mean govt shutdown;
How railroads, highways and other man-made lines racially divide America's cities; Sandra Bland's Arrest Wasn't Racism; It Was Something Even Worse;
Kansas statistician battles government to determine whether vote count is flawed;
America's Craziest Governor Goes Off the Rails;
Republican Donors to Walker, Rubio and Bush: Boycott the Debate if Trump Participates; Trump threatens independent run, on sidelines of border visit;
Math, science and technology:
Security issues
Math and science
Web and computing issues
SC Politics
Should segregationist statue in SC tell about massacre too?
Finance and Economics
U.S. jobless claims lowest since 1973; leading index rises; Pentagon Insider: Who Won $6.36 Billion in Defense Contracts Friday;
Greek lawmakers approve fresh reforms demanded by creditors; Greek store closures spike as recession, austerity return;
Industries That Will Benefit From Lifting Iran Sanctions; EU close to labelling products made in occupied Palestinian lands;
Health Care Records: Jury Is Out on Industry Competence; With Anthem-Cigna deal near, the health insurance industry is headed toward a 'big three';
Oil Warning: The Crash Could Be Worst in More Than 45 Years; Moody's Says Low Oil Price Here to Stay as Russia Bleeds Capital;
State Opposition To Clean Power Plan Fades As Compliance Examined; Southern Leg Of Keystone XL Pipeline Reaches Milestone;
Other news
10 Best Secret U.S. Road Trips;
Education:
How Great Colleges Distinguish Themselves; Moody's Upgrades Higher Ed's Outlook From 'Negative' to 'Stable';
Study Finds Parents' Income Correlated With Students' College Major; Parents Spending More On, Worrying Less About College;
When One State Required Online Learning in High School, Colleges Saw Changes; Some Universities No Longer Requiring Standardized Test Scores;
Colleges Seek Diversity, but 'Admissions Calculus' Hasn't Changed; 7 Myths About Campus Diversity;
ED College Rating Plan Abandoned In Favor Of Data Tool; Groups Urge Administration To Identify Colleges Facing Investigations, Lawsuits;
Financial-Services Company Is Accused of Misleading Students; Grant Dispute Throws an Unwritten Rule of Academic Poaching Out the Window;
Florida Board Of Education To Set Teacher Evaluation Standards;
Psych Professor's Tricky Extra Credit Question;
7/17/15
TechNews for the week: July 17; July 15; July 13;
War, Politics and Reports (Also, see Finance and Economics)
IS offers mix of brutality, charity during Ramadan; How the Dominoes Will Fall After ISIS Takes Damascus; Iraq launches offensive to drive Islamic State from biggest province;
Landmark nuclear deal reached with Iran; Why Israel, Saudi Arabia, and Neocons Hate the Iran Deal; UK minister says Israel wants "permanent standoff" with Iran;
PM says Israel not bound by Iran deal, will defend itself; Israel assassinated top Syrian general;
Nuclear deal: Saudis signal they'll act before Iran gets the money; After Iran Nuclear Deal, Saudi Demands Could Pivot Toward Palestine;
Netanyahu's So-Called 'Settlement Freeze'; Palestinian Television Station Shut Down by Israeli Government;
Army Cuts Hit Lawmakers Where It Hurts; Psychologists group colluded with Pentagon, CIA on interrogations;
Blame John Boehner for the House GOP's Confederate flag fiasco;
Congress faces a highway funding cliff. But there's a simple solution;
Why Firing a Bad Cop Is Damn Near Impossible; Move Beyond the Frame of the "Bad Apple Cop"; Video released shows police killing unarmed man in LA suburb;
Probe of Chattanooga shooting suspect focuses on Mideast travel;
Math, science and technology:
Security issues
Math and science
Web and computing issues
SC Politics
A new day in South Carolina as the Confederate battle flag comes down; Confederate flag supporters rise up to defend embattled symbol;
Fear Must Not Win In South Carolina; It will take more than goodwill to heal this state;
Finance and Economics
Euro zone leaders reach agreement to rescue Greece; Greece approves contentious austerity measures, smoothing way for bailout;
How Greece became the worst economy in Europe;
How China's Slowdown Is Worse Than You Think;
Oil ETFs: It Could Get Worse Before Things Settle; Refiners Race to Make Cheap Oil Into Gasoline;
Construction Will Begin On North Carolina Wind Farm; US Southeast Could Be Good Location For Wind Farms;
Majority Of States Suing EPA, Army Corps Of Engineers Over Water Rules;
House Votes 312-119 To Fund Transportation To December 18; Illinois: Lawmakers fail to override Rauner budget vetoes;
What Do Hedge Funds Think Of E I Du Pont De Nemours And Co;
Other news
The Condensed Guide to Running Meetings; 10 things you should never do on your resume;
Boy Scouts executive committee endorses ending ban on gay leaders;
Secession, the Confederate Flag, and Slavery; By removing the Confederate battle flag, we hide the ugly truth;
Republicans Are Acting Like Democrats. Democrats Are Acting Like Republicans;
Education:
Money's best colleges 2015; More Millennials Than Generation X Say College Is Worth It;
The college majors that are most likely to marry each other; Making Transcripts More Than 'a Record of Everything the Student Has Forgotten';
Financial Literacy: Can It Be Taught? Should Colleges Even Try;
Traditional Colleges Compete to Enroll Student Veterans; Senate passes No Child Left Behind rewrite, would shrink federal role in education;
ED Reaches Deal With Corinthian Students To Suspend Student Loan Collections; Education Dept. Updates List of Colleges It's Watching Closely;
Gainful Employment Rule Seen As Template For Broader Higher Education Accountability;
More Kansas teachers leaving state, retiring; Wisconsin Professor's Tweets to New Students Raise Republican Hackles;
Psychological Association's Board Urges Ban on Members' Role in Military Interrogations ;
Days After Leak of Damning Report, 3 APA Officials Announce Departures; The One Email That Explains Why Three APA Officials Had to Go;
Texas Tech AD on Big 12 expansion: We are financially stable, competitively challenged; The 10 Highest Paid Coaches in College Sports;
7/10/15
TechNews for the week: July 10; July 8; July 6;
War, Politics and Reports (Also, see Finance and Economics)
IS claims mass execution in Palmyra, Syria; Iraqi air force jet accidentally bombs Baghdad; Syria territory in June 2015;
The Islamic State: Coming to a presidential campaign near you;
Israel and Palestine: Not So Separate, Deeply Unequal; Saudi joins Israel as target of Jerusalem Day protests;
The 'new' type of war that finally has the Pentagon's attention; The biggest and most disruptive layoffs in America are coming from the military;
Greeks defy Europe with overwhelming referendum 'No'; KRUGMAN: Greece's 'No' vote is a win for Europe;
Puerto Rican debt crisis forces its way onto presidential political agenda;
Why States are ignoring federal law about voter registration;
The Americans are coming! Some in a Texas county fear an Obama-led U.S. military invasion;
Breakdown in background checks allowed Dylann Roof to buy weapon in S.C. shooting;
Bush's mind-blowing fundraising haul;
Math, science and technology:
Security issues
Math and science
Web and computing issues
SC Politics
SC Senate Moves To Take Down Confederate Flag; SC House approves bill removing Confederate flag;
South Carolina's losing battle to rewrite its racist history; Fear Must Not Win In South Carolina; What the nay voters on Confederate flag removal have in common;
List of lawmakers who voted against removing the Confederate flag;
Finance and Economics
How much $100 is really worth in every state; Judge rules no pay for Illinois workers without state budget;
China rolls out emergency measures to prevent stock market crash; China's stock market is crashing, and the Chinese are trying to do the exact same thing America did in 1929;
Chinese stock markets continue to nosedive as regulator warns of panic; Key things to know about China's market meltdown; Why China's stock market is tanking;
Chinese Stock Meltdown That Makes the Greece Saga Look Trivial; Greek PM Tsipras seeks party backing after abrupt concessions;
Germany has defaulted on its debts, too;
Congress Facing Tough Haul With Transportation Bill;
'Flash Boys' Programmer in Goldman Case Prevails Second Time;
Israel Electric Corp. to pay $4 billion for natural gas it doesn't need;
Chinese Market For Industrial Robots Surging;
Other news
How the South Skews America;
In 2005, Bill Cosby admitted seeking drugs to give to women;
Education:
Study: 37% Of College Students Transfer Before Graduation; Despite Hurdles, Students Keep Switching Colleges;
Colleges' Balance Sheets Are Looking Better;
New York Fed Report Says "Easy Money" Driving Up Tuition Costs; Universities Caught Between a Cap on Tuition Increases and Cuts in State Aid;
Education Dept. Takes Steps to Ease Repayment for Student-Loan Borrowers; Consumer Watchdog Highlights Military Borrowers' Problems With Loan Servicers;
As Graduate-Student Debt Booms, Just a Few Colleges Are Largely Responsible; Democrats Unveil Bill to Help Realize Obama's Free-College Proposal;
South Dakota Schools Have Widest Achievement Gap For Reading, Math In The Nation; College Students Say Smart Phones Did Not Help Improve Grades;
High School Transcript Data Suggests "Growing Racial Differences" In Students Who Take Calculus;
150 years later, schools are still a battlefield for interpreting Civil War;
UC-SanDiego Sues USC Over Poaching of Prominent Researcher;
Campus Crime Has Fallen by 25% in the Last 10 Years;
High-tech Cheating on Exams; Admissions Process Broken For Chinese Students Coming To America;
The 7 Richest Athletic Departments in College Sports; U. of Akron Will Cut 215 Jobs and Baseball Program to Plug $60-Million Shortfall;
7/3/15
TechNews for the week: July 1; June 29;
War, Politics and Reports (Also, see Finance and Economics)
Attacks Hit Three Continents Amid Fears Of Escalating Islamist Violence; ISIS claims to be behind deadly Tunisia attack; Islamic State threatens to topple Hamas in Gaza;
American Al Qaeda to ISIS: No Paradise for You; Israel's secret war in Syria; Former Israeli Ambassador Takes Aim at Obama-and American Jewry;
Western officials suggest Iran tries to wiggle out of nuclear pledges; Iran nuclear talks in endgame, negotiators push on sticking points;
Russian Cuts Off Natural Gas Supplies To Ukraine;
Supreme Court rules gay couples nationwide have a right to marry; Texas attorney general says judges can deny same-sex marriage licenses;
Supreme Court just saved one of the biggest tools against partisan gerrymandering; Ginsburg's redistricting decision could be the most important one of the term;
U.S. justices take up new Arizona redistricting panel challenge; take up dispute over union fees;
U.S. justices turn down states over voter registration restrictions; Supreme Court blocks Texas abortion-clinic rules;
Rubio and Graham Propose Bill Against Online Gambling; Wisconsin Republicans propose limiting public access to records;
Police have killed 123 people in throes of mental, emotional crisis this year; South Carolina blaze brings tally of recent black church fires to seven;
Trump Throws a Monkey-Wrench Into GOP Primary Hopes;
Math, science and technology:
Security issues
Math and science
Web and computing issues
SC Politics
Obama calls for racial understanding, unity as thousands mourn S.C. pastor; President Obama Eulogy;
Confluence Of Factors Driving Momentum To Take Down Flag; Open The Door Of The Race Closet;
As College of Charleston's President Speaks on Confederate Flag, Faculty Question His Timing and Message;
Finance and Economics
U.S. added 223,000 jobs in June; unemployment rate declined to 5.3%; Wall Street falls as Grexit fears grow, volatility spikes;
IMF: Greece misses $1.8 billion loan payment; Greek Banks shut for a week as capital controls imposed; Greek court rules Sunday referendum constitutional;
US: We're not going to give Puerto Rico a bailout;
Netanyahu buys time to resolve political problems over gas deal;
Gulf states reach $18.7 billion settlement with BP over oil spill;
Illinois' GOP governor moves to avoid government shutdown; Maine lawmakers override LePage's veto of $6.7B state budget;
Supreme Court overturns landmark EPA air pollution rule;
Outlawed By The States, Payday Lenders Take Refuge On Reservations; Buying visas with investments is big business;
2015 Roundup Of 3D Printing Market Forecasts And Estimates;
Other news
The Confederate flag is just a distraction; At rural South Carolina shop, Confederate flags fly off shelves; The Atlantic Slave Trade in Two Minutes;
Why do people believe myths about the Confederacy? Because our textbooks and monuments are wrong; What is the "Kentucky Resolutions"; an explaination;
White support for the Confederate flag really is about racism, not Southern heritage;
8 Things Every Person Should Do Before 8 A.M.; 4 Tricks to Sharpen Your Mind for the Best Workday Ever; Why Successful People Focus on the Bottom End of the Funnel;
Boy Scout dies in New Mexico ranch flooding;
From worst to first: Ranking every state in America;
Education:
Florida Colleges Adjusting To New Law Stopping Mandatory Remedial Education;
Colleges Where Tuition Has Risen the Fastest; Students in Washington State Will See Their Tuition Drop;
U. of Phoenix Looks to Shrink Itself With New Admissions Requirements and Deep Cuts;
Predatory College-Bank Partnerships; Student-Debt-Relief Firm Will Shut Its Doors After New York Investigation;
College Sues Middle States Commission Over Loss of Accreditation;
Supreme Court Will Again Hear 'Fisher' Case on Race-Conscious Admissions;
NCAA Proposal Would Refine Definition of Academic Misconduct;