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Frederick Wiseman's documentary 'In Jackson Heights' explores the joys, struggles, victories and defeats of one of the most diverse communities in the country.
Asking your child to wash their hands before they eat isn’t useful unless they know why it’s important.
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Kids who watch educational programs such as 'Sesame Street' show better academic skills. But this does not mean all children can learn from educational media.
The unfolding information about the Zika virus and saddening images of babies infected with microcephaly should really scare us all. The disease has spread “explosively” throughout the Americas, with 32…
Babies show a preference for faces over other objects.
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On Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday, five educators reflect on recent campus protests and describe concrete actions universities can take to bring opportunity to all.
Well Santa has come and gone, at least for the largest proportion of the world’s population. And, as we reach the end of the year, it is inevitably time to review recent trends and the prospects for 2016…
Speaking to the nation December 6.
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Winston Churchill famously suggested that: You can always count on Americans to do the right thing – after they’ve tried everything else. Speaking with his characteristic mix of the compassionate and cerebral…
The Turkish Embassy in Moscow under siege.
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The downing of Russia’s plane by Turkish military forces over the skies of the Syrian-Turkish border has added yet another layer of complexity to the vortex of conflict in the Middle East. Most of the…
Dans les rues de Paris, des mots pour exorciser la peur.
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Face à l’engagement de nouvelles puissances en Syrie et à des défaites symboliques sur son terrain, Daech déploie une nouvelle stratégie. Les attentats de Paris en sont un effroyable épisode.
Dans les rues de Paris, des mots pour exorciser la peur.
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Face à l’engagement de nouvelles puissances en Syrie et à des défaites symboliques sur son terrain, Daech déploie une nouvelle stratégie. Les attentats de Paris en sont un effroyable épisode.
French police stand guard outside the national soccer stadium
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In the summer of 2007, in a bizarre incident shown live on Russian television, scientists accompanied by a couple of senior politicians descended 4,300 meters to the floor of the Arctic Ocean in two Mir…
Who’s in charge of America’s schools?
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Newark's children are no better off even after Mark Zuckerberg pumped $100 million to improve public schools. What opportunities have been lost? What lessons have we learned?
To many Americans, it feels as if the world is becoming a more violent place. Besieged nightly with video of conflicts across the Afghanistan, Nigeria, the Middle East and Ukraine, it would be easy to…
Marilyn Monroe appeared on the cover of Playboy’s first issue in 1953.
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Afghan, Syrian and Eritrean refugees keep arriving on Europe’s shores, reputedly at an increasing rate. They attempt to traverse the Mediterranean by land and sea, presumably hastened by Putin’s bombing…
Meetings in Washington.
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Globalization first became a bedrock of our vocabulary in the 1990s in the aftermath of the Cold War. Proponents of globalization then argued that everything would change – and for the better. There would…