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With a new year comes plenty of sales.
Published: December 31, 2014 at 07:00PM
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Monthly Archives: December 2014
Key Developments in Police-Communities Tension by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
The killings of two unarmed black men by white police officers in Missouri and in New York this summer touched off protests and a national debate over police conduct that intensified after grand juries declined to indict the officers.
Published: December 30, 2014 at 10:10PM
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What to Do in Vienna by ANDREW FERREN
By ANDREW FERREN
A Velázquez show, sprawling skating rinks and sizzling schnitzel are among the wintertime enticements of the capital.
Published: January 3, 2015 at 07:00PM
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Threats, Hospitalization Preceded Police Shooting by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
A man shot and killed by police after he tried to run down officers with his car in a Philadelphia suburb had posted an online video threatening to kill police and FBI agents and was previously committed to a mental health facility by his mother, the…
Published: December 30, 2014 at 09:48PM
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Hubble Sees an Ancient Globular Cluster
This image captures the stunning NGC 6535, a globular cluster 22,000 light-years away in the constellation of Serpens (The Serpent) that measures one light-year across.
Globular clusters are tightly bound groups of stars which orbit galaxies. The large mass in the rich stellar centre of the globular cluster pulls the stars inward to form a ball of stars. The word globulus, from which these clusters take their name, is Latin for small sphere.
Globular clusters are generally very ancient objects formed around the same time as their host galaxy. To date, no new star formation has been observed within a globular cluster, which explains the abundance of aging yellow stars in this image, most of them containing very few heavy elements.
NGC 6535 was first discovered in 1852 by English astronomer John Russell Hind. The cluster would have appeared to Hind as a small, faint smudge through his telescope. Now, over 160 years later, instruments like the Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) and Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3) on the NASA/ European Space Agency (ESA) Hubble Space Telescope allow us to marvel at the cluster and its contents in greater detail.
European Space Agency
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Huge Ski Resort for the Rich Is Bouncing Back by SARAH MAX
By SARAH MAX
Today, six years after its bankruptcy, the Yellowstone Club is thriving.
Published: December 31, 2014 at 04:00AM
from NYT Business Day http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2014/12/31/huge-ski-resort-for-the-rich-is-bouncing-back/
Inside a Chinese Test-Prep Factory by BROOK LARMER
By BROOK LARMER
Thousands of students travel to Maotanchang to spend 16 hours a day, seven days a week, studying for the biggest test of their lives.
Published: January 3, 2015 at 07:00PM
from NYT Magazine http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/04/magazine/inside-a-chinese-test-prep-factory.html
South African Church to Evict Hundreds of Refugees by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
The New Year brings an uncertain future for more than 500 people who are being evicted from the Central Methodist Church in downtown Johannesburg, which has been a haven for refugees and homeless for the past 14 years.
Published: December 31, 2014 at 02:18AM
from NYT World http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2014/12/31/world/africa/ap-af-south-africa-refugees.html
Today in Politics by THE NEW YORK TIMES
By THE NEW YORK TIMES
House Republicans end the year on a defensive note over Representative Steve Scalise’s 2002 speech to a white supremacist group.
Published: December 31, 2014 at 02:03AM
from NYT false http://www.nytimes.com/politics/first-draft/2014/12/31/today-in-politics-67/
The Super-Short Workout and Other Fitness Trends by GRETCHEN REYNOLDS
By GRETCHEN REYNOLDS
The big story in exercise science this year was the super-short workout, although many other fitness-related themes emerged in 2014.
Published: December 30, 2014 at 07:01PM
from NYT Health http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/12/31/the-super-short-workout-and-other-fitness-trends/
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