Up Against the Wall

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Why tiny electric planes and $25 tickets could be the future of regional air travel

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/innovations/wp/2017/04/08/why-tiny-electric-planes-and-25-tickets-could-be-the-future-of-air-travel/

Want to keep black kids from running away from home? Stop hitting them.

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The Utter Uselessness of Job Interviews

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The Myth of Main Street

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Fact Check now available in Google Search and News around the world

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Google rolls out new 'Fact Check' tool worldwide to combat fake news

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Graphene oxide: A better membrane, but no 'silver bullet' for desalination

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How to Make Cheap Earbuds Sound Like $200 Headphones

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Slovenian firm brings tombstones to life with digital content

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Today's teens want gender equality, but not at home

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How a Browser Extension Could Shake Up Academic Publishing

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The ‘alternative facts’ epidemic goes way beyond politics

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Supreme Court confirmation hearings in 2035

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If no one is behind the wheel in an autonomous car crash, who pays?

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Dawn Armstrong: Homelessness has a face, and it's mine

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Why You Shouldn’t Walk on Escalators

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Check This Box if You’re a Good Person

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She found a way to make plastic waste useful

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Decades after extinction declaration, hunt for Tasmanian tiger resumes

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Laser maps reveal slide risk with startling clarity, but few citizens know they exist

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How to Get a Job at Google

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Watching TV Without Paying for Cable

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For the Love of Money

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Bats, Blood and Beirut: Lebanon's unorthodox body hair removal technique raises brows

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New Devices Mind Pets While Owners Are Away

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/12/technology/personaltech/new-devices-mind-pets-while-owners-are-away.html

Tenure of American Workers (Bureau of Labor Statistics)

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CRS Report: Instances of Use of United States Armed Forces Abroad, 1798-2013

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Rise of the Warrior Cop

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Where We Are Shapes Who We Are

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Beauty Tips for the FDA

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The Criminal Mind

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Breaking Up Is Hard to Do

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Faltering Courts, Mired in Delays

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/14/nyregion/justice-denied-bronx-court-system-mired-in-delays.html

The Power of Talking to Your Baby

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The Boy With a Thorn in His Joints

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America's Baby Bust

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Who Made That Military Dog Tag?

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The Guerrilla Myth

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The Facts About Assault Weapons and Crime

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The dialysis dilemma: urgent need vs. overtaxed system

http://seattletimes.com/html/pacificnw/2020139209_pacificpkidneys20.html?

Invasion of the Data Snatchers

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Train a Parent, Spare a Child

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Zombie foreclosures terrorize ex-homeowners

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7 phrases in a liar's vocabulary

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When the Fat Lady Sings

http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/12/31/when-the-fat-lady-sings/

Pill Could Join Arsenal Against Bedbugs

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Unauthorized Aliens Residing in the United States: Estimates Since 1986

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The Global Religious Landscape: A Report on the Size and Distribution of the World’s Major Religious Groups as of 2010

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For Many Poor Students, Leap to College Ends in a Hard Fall

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Despite billions spent to address hunger, families in Chad cling to harmful traditions

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/africa/despite-billions-spent-to-address-hunger-families-in-chad-cling-to-harmful-traditions/2012/12/20/236425bc-4adb-11e2-8758-b64a2997a921_story.html

When the Doctor Is Not Needed

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First photo of rare, wild New Guinea singing dog in 23 years

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What Could Disappear

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2012/11/24/opinion/sunday/what-could-disappear.html

Giving back: Eight innovative philanthropists around the world

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Decorative Contact Lenses: Is Your Vision Worth It?

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They Work Long Hours, but What About Results?

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Count von Faber-Castell

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How to Fend Off a Food Craving

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Popular Antibiotics May Carry Serious Side Effects

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The Search for a Baldness Cure

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Testing, Testing...Can You Hear Better Now?

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What's Really in Your Cigarette?

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In Search of a Perfect Shave

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College budget: 11 items students don't need

http://www.csmonitor.com/The-Culture/Family/2012/0829/College-budget-11-items-students-don-t-need/New-textbooks

A Worksheet for Math-Phobic Parents

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Superfund Cleanup Stirs Troubled Waters

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/14/science/superfund-efforts-to-clean-waterways-come-with-a-risk.html

Beware the Nocebo Effect

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/12/opinion/sunday/beware-the-nocebo-effect.html

Thanks, but You Can Keep Your Nice Day

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Close Encounters of the Romantic Kind

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Decoding the Science of Sleep

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A High Holy Whodunit

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