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"Written by Michael Larabel in Operating Systems on 23 June 2016. Page 1 of 5. 26 Comments Given the recent releases of Fedora 24, Solus 1.2, and other GNU/Linux distribution updates, here is our latest performance testing roundabout of seven popular OS releases on the same Core i5 Skylake system."

"Boing Boing editor responds, offers 200 free copies to the school's students. by Joe Silver - June 10 2014, 8:04pm CEST Activism Web Culture 212 Enlarge Cory Doctorow After the Booker T. Washington Public High School in Pensacola, Florida, placed best-selling author and popular Boing Boing blog editor Cory Doctorow's young adult novel Little Brother on its "One School/One Book" summer reading list, the school's administration promptly cancelled the school-wide reading program."

"Boing Boing editor responds, offers 200 free copies to the school's students. by Joe Silver - June 10 2014, 8:04pm CEST Activism Web Culture 212 Enlarge Cory Doctorow After the Booker T. Washington Public High School in Pensacola, Florida, placed best-selling author and popular Boing Boing blog editor Cory Doctorow's young adult novel Little Brother on its "One School/One Book" summer reading list, the school's administration promptly cancelled the school-wide reading program."

"On Nov. 11, 2013, Victorville, California, sheriff's deputies and a coroner responded to a motorcyclist's report of human remains outside of town. They identified the partially bleached skull of a child, and later discovered the remains of the McStay family who had been missing for the past three years. Joseph, 40, his wife Summer, 43, Gianni, 4, and Joseph Jr., 3, had been bludgeoned to death and buried in shallow graves in the desert."

"During the humid summer months of 1954, twenty-two 11 and 12-year-old boys were randomly split into two groups and taken to a 200-acre Boy Scouts of America camp in Robbers Cave State Park, Oklahoma. Over the next few weeks, they would unknowingly be the subjects of one of the most widely known psychological studies of our time. And the ways these groups bonded and interacted with each other draw some interesting parallels to our understanding of workplace culture."

"Fedora 24 Linux launches this summer, on June 7 Mar 24, 2016 01:15 GMT · By Marius Nestor Earlier today, March 23, 2016, Fedora's Program Manager Jan Kurik announced that the Alpha build of the upcoming Fedora 24 Linux operating system has been approved for landing and will arrive next Tuesday, March 29."

[Description How does the sense of basic fairness--or selflessness versus selfishness--arise? How is it exhibited behaviorally? How is it maintained? Few topics hold more contemporary significance or have proved more elusive to specification in precise scientific terms. Current research perspectives on altruism, narcissism, and comity by distinguished behavioral scientists from around the world were brought together in a special issue of Current Psychology (Summer 1998) and are offered here in a useful compendium. ]