The Early 1900s Movement to Build Schools Without Walls

Take that, tuberculosis!
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The Purest Type

Pronghorn were almost perfectly fitted to the West Texas landscape. And then people started building fences. By Sterry Butcher.
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What’s Killing the Yellow River?

Rapid development is fueling China’s rise. The cost may be one of the country’s most vital natural resources.
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Corbyn did the right thing when he chose Glastonbury over Armed Forces Day events

Jeremy Corbyn has been slammed in the right-wing press for choosing to appear at Glastonbury rather than Armed Forces Day events. Nothing sums up more neatly than this the longstanding preoccupation of our country’s majority right-wing press with Corbyn’s refusal to sanction war and violence. And nothing sums up better how out-of-kilter that thinking is. By Lee Williams.
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A gardener went to Japan to polish her pruning skills. She found tough love.

An American ventures into Kyoto gardens.
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Paris’ Dusty Diary : A Peek Inside the City's Most Secret Library

Guarded by a fortress of medieval walls cut from thick ominous sandstone, Les Archives Nationales means business. The former humble abode to a member of the French aristocracy, today this decadent sprawling chateau houses France’s most precious documents, each securely locked behind layers of mahogany-framed, etched-glass bookshelves.
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Hobbyhorsing: Inside Finland's equestrian craze

On an uncharacteristically warm and clear weekend in May, more than 5,000 people descended on Helsinki's Kaivopuisto Park -- one of the Finnish capital's largest -- to take part in the latest craze beginning to sweep the nation.
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This is how Brexit, immigration and housing sparked Britain’s political revolution

Britain is experiencing profound political changes, going by the outcome of the general election, but new trends are shadowy, developing below the surface. It may be that Labour’s relative success – achieved amid confident predictions by pundits of annihilating defeat – stemmed from a last-minute change of direction by voters, or simply because pollsters vastly underestimated the turnout of pro-Labour younger voters. By Patrick Cockburn.
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Solar Costs Are Hitting Jaw-Dropping Lows in Every Region of the World

This may sound a little repetitive, but it's impossible to ignore: The decline in solar costs is not slowing down. GTM Research expects a 27 percent drop in average global project prices by 2022, or about 4.4 percent each year. Those improvements are not limited to the U.S. They are occurring globally, and in some cases resulting in even sharper price declines than those America is experiencing.
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Once a Model City, Hong Kong Is in Trouble

When the British left 20 years ago, Hong Kong was seen as a rare blend of East and West that China might seek to emulate. Now, increasingly, it’s a cautionary tale.
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Mount Baker Full Moon At Sunset

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In a First, Bird Uses Tools to Make Sweet Music

The palm cockatoo is the only species aside from humans that can drum a rhythmic beat with its own homemade objects, a new study says.
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The True Tale of an Ayahuasca Quest

Writer Wells Tower traveled to the jungles of Peru to experience an ancient ritual. What happened next pushed him to his limits. 
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The Gross Reason Why Flight Attendants Never Drink Hot Drinks During Flights

Just when you thought flying couldn't get any worse. Have you ever noticed that flight attendants never drink hot water during the flight?
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Growing Trees Is Helping Fight Poverty in Cameroon

In rural Africa, farmers are struggling to feed their families. The market price of the cash crops they depend on is fluctuating wildly on a monthly basis and there are no government subsidies to make up the loss of income. Zac Tchoundjeu is taking a grassroots approach to cutting this chain of poverty: empowering farmers with simple, powerful agroforestry techniques that they can bring back to their communities to improve their yield, market agency, and confidence.
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111 Terminally Ill People Took Their Own Lives in 1st 6 Months of California’s Right-to-Die Law

A total of 111 people in California took their own lives using lethal prescriptions during the first six months of a law that allows terminally ill people to request life-ending drugs from their doctors, according to data released Tuesday. They were among 191 people in the state who received the prescriptions from their doctors; not all ended up using the drugs to kill themselves, state health officials said.
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Why Teddy Roosevelt Tried to Bully His Way Onto the WWI Battlefield

Tensions ran high when President Wilson quashed the return of the former president’s Rough Riders
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When the Beast of Gévaudan Terrorized France

The tale of this monster grew in the telling, but the carnage still left nearly 100 dead
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Seattle's $15 minimum wage may be hurting workers, report finds

As companies look for ways to cut costs, Seattle's $15 minimum wage law may be hurting hourly workers instead of helping them, according to a new report.
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Theresa May loses her majority but still seeks the Holy Grail

Huw Parkinson turns to the fallout from the recent UK general election, which left Theresa May facing complicated Brexit negotiations having lost her government majority.
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The Antiwar Comic: The Decision Maker

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'Everyone predicted the end': How Ireland's Indie Bookshops are surviving in the Amazon age

When online bookselling began to dominate the market in the early 2000s, many were predicting that the bookshop would simply die away. Now, however, Irish independent book shops are not only managing to survive. In fact, they are flourishing. Ahead of Independent Book Shop week, we spoke to several independent booksellers on how they’re surviving in the Amazon age, how they differentiate themselves and the joys of a good book.
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The Fascinating Story of 'Tokyo Rose' Iva Toguri D'Aquino, And How She Became Known As a Traitor

Iva Ikuko Toguri d’Aquino, or “Tokyo Rose” as most people knew her was an American-born Japanese woman who famously hosted a Japanese radio program aimed at U.S. troops during World War II that was designed to broadcast propaganda.
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Manufactured illiteracy and miseducation: A long process of decline led to President Donald Trump

A deep-rooted crisis in education, and a long cultural and political decline, is what got us here. There's hope!
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Texas Is Too Windy and Sunny for Old Energy Companies to Make Money

In a windsurfers’ paradise, turbines capture gusts that pick up at exactly the right time - or the wrong time, if you're trying to sell natural gas.
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Vietnam's imperiled bloggers

We examine the government's attempts to silence the country's bloggers.
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If You Can’t Ban Cars Downtown, Just Take Away The Parking Spaces

Oslo had a plan to lower its emissions by drastically limit car travel in its center. Now you can drive, but it might not be worth it.
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Act now to protect your digital rights, Big Brother and his Little Sisters may be watching

Sooner or later, China will recognise the value of digital assets. This adds to the urgency of citizens ensuring they control the data trails that tell the world what they think and do.
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FRONTLINE: The Secret History of ISIS

The inside story of the creation of ISIS, and how the U.S. missed the many warning signs.
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1985: When Philly police dropped a bomb on a residential neighborhood

When an armed black radical group refused to surrender, the police responded with deadly and unprecedented force. By Alex Q. Arbuckle.
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Deepest Dive Under Antarctica Reveals a Shockingly Vibrant World

Our special report offers a rare look at life beneath the frozen continent—where penguins, seals, and exotic creatures thrive.
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We Could Have Had Cellphones Four Decades Earlier

Thanks for nothing, Federal Communications Commission.
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On this luxury sleeper train, you’ll get a unique ride and amazing views

South America's first luxury sleeper train, The Belmond Andean Explorer, runs one- and two-day sightseeing trips out of Cusco, Arequipa and Puno, Peru.
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George Thorogood - Bad To The Bone - 7/5/1984 - Capitol Theatre (Official)

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In a first, Ford to import Focus small car from China

Ford Motor Co. will export vehicles from China to the U.S. for the first time starting in 2019. Ford said Tuesday it plans to move production of its Ford Focus small car from the U.S. to China, where it already makes the Focus for Chinese buyers. Sales of small cars have dropped sharply...
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What can you learn from ancient skeletons?

Ancient skeletons can tell us a great deal about the past, including the age, gender and even the social status of its former owner. But how can we know all of these details simply by examining some old, soil-caked bones? Farnaz Khatibi examines a fascinating branch of science known as biological anthropology.
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Russian Orthodox Priest Claims Growing A Beard Protects You From Turning Gay

A leader in the Russian Orthodox Church is urging men to keep their beards to “protect themselves from homosexuality.” Metropolitan Kornily, primate of the Russian Orthodox Old Believer Church (RPSC), claims that shaving is more likely to make a man become “corrupted” by same-sex attraction.
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The 21 Unwritten Rules of Flying You're Probably Breaking

Which ones are you guilty of?
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The Dutch Have Solutions to Rising Seas. The World Is Watching.

In the waterlogged Netherlands, climate change is considered neither a hypothetical nor a drag on the economy. Instead, it’s an opportunity.
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There Is No Better Place to Write than the Library

Hemingway wrote in cafes, nursing a marc, and later at a stand-up desk surrounded by polydactyl cats. Melville used an upstairs study in Pittsfield with a view of Mt. Greylock, which in winter looks very much like a white whale. Virginia Woolf had a room of her own and Edith Wharton was said to write in bed. Few things are as treasured by writers as privacy, that place where you can tune out the world and live in the alternate one on your page. Joseph Kanon found it in one of the most public places imaginable, crowded with tour groups and class visits, a must stop in the guide books.
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Happy

The little flower seems happy and there is also plenty to be happy about. It is a very seldom flower in Denmark, but the spread of bee orchid, as it is called, in the area where I found it is increasing :-)
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‘Productivity is Fun’ and Other Lessons From Soviet Children’s Books of the 1920s

In 1920s Russia, children read about sugar beets, hydroelectric plants, and five-year plans.
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The Last Man of Mahanan

Hidden at the very top of New Zealand’s Coromandel Peninsula and accessible only by off-road track is the Mahana commune. Founded in 1978, for nearly 40 years its inhabitants have been elusive. Their story has gone largely unreported. But now, parts of the utopian dream are turning sour. We visit Arthur, one of the remaining members of Mahana, to learn about his reclusive life, his battles with other residents, and his hopes of seeing the valley returned to its past glory.
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India's Street Kids (Poverty Documentary)

In the slums of Delhi, a group of impoverished Indian children are making their voices heard and their stories told; by publishing their own newspaper, which is now being read from London to the USA. An SBS Dateline report.
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Antarctica Is Melting, and Giant Ice Cracks Are Just the Start

The massive iceberg poised to break off the Larsen C Ice Shelf may be a harbinger of a continent-wide collapse that would swamp coastal cities around the world.
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What Can Akron Do With a Dead Freeway?

The six-lane Innerbelt connector obliterated downtown Akron in the 1970s. Next summer, it’s going to be covered in trees.
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From Russia With Blood

Lavish London mansions. A hand-painted Rolls-Royce. And eight dead friends. For the British fixer Scot Young, working for Vladimir Putin's most vocal critic meant stunning perks – but also constant danger. His gruesome death is one of 14 that US spy agencies have linked to Russia – but the UK police shut down every last case. A bombshell cache of documents today reveals the full story of a ring of death on British soil that the government has ignored.
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The Artist Sam McKinniss on Capturing Lorde in the Twilight

At a time when pop music and mass culture are analyzed with feverish determination, Sam McKinniss’s work offers an alternative.
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Network Ten plans 'business as usual' despite entering voluntary administration

Network Ten has entered voluntary administration after the network said its directors "had no choice but to appoint administrators."
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Uncovering Ancient Clues to Humanity’s First Fires

How and when our ancestors mastered the use of fire remains a hotly debated question. Researchers are hunting for answers buried in ancient ash and soils.
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