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Cars' Voice-Activated Systems Distract Drivers, Study Finds - The New York Times - 0 views

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  • Cars’ Voice-Activated Systems Distract Drivers, Study Finds
  • The research found that the most complicated voice-activated systems can take a motorist’s mind off the road for as long as 27 seconds after he or she stops interacting with the system
  • Texting while driving, an activity that is almost universally condemned as dangerous, is becoming more commonplace, not less so, according to surveys in recent years by the AAA Foundation.
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  • The most distracting, he found, belonged to the Mazda 6, followed by Microsoft’s Cortana system, and cars from Hyundai, Chrysler, Nissan and Volkswagen. Apple’s Siri system also created a “high distraction,” the research found.
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Winter Poses New Danger for Migrants - The New York Times - 1 views

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  • Winter Poses New Danger for Migrants
  • If the numbers increase drastically or, worse, if there are more border closings, there would be an almost immediate backup that would quickly repopulate border camps within a week — some of them open-air, others consisting mostly of unheated tents.
  • Hungary completed a 108-mile razor-wire fence along its border with Serbia last month, following a free-for-all this summer that saw squalid encampments
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  • Migration officials warned that it might be a matter of days before the system collapses under the strain, as the migrants keep crossing from Turkey into Greece and through the Balkans,
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Obama to Announce Halt of U.S. Troop Withdrawal in Afghanistan - The New York Times - 0 views

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  • Obama to Announce Halt of U.S. Troop Withdrawal in Afghanistan
  • prolonging the American role in a war that has now stretched on for 14 years.
  • Mr. Obama appears to be acknowledging that Afghan security forces are still not near ready to hold off the Taliban on their own.
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  • The current American force in Afghanistan of 9,800 troops will remain in place through most of 2016
  • The insurgents are now spread through more parts of the country than at any point since 2001
  • 5,500 troops, along with contributions from NATO allies, which have yet to be agreed upon, would provide enough power to protect the force
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Sanctuary without end: The refugees the world forgot - CNN.com - 0 views

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  • The refugees the world forgot
  • For Dadaab is the largest refugee camp in the world. If it was a city, it would be one of Kenya's largest.
  • Abdula and his family fled Somalia's brutal civil war for Dadaab in 1994. The 26-year-old has been living here since childhood and knows little else.
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  • And even though the camp has existed for 24 years, permanent structures are banned by the Kenyan government.
  • Dadaab rose from modest beginnings, set up in 1991 as a temporary shelter for 90,000 refugees fleeing the civil war engulfing neighboring Somalia.
  • During the height of Somalia's 2011 famine, tens of thousands of refugees made the journey by bus, donkey cart and foot to escape hunger and the Islamic militant group Al-Shabaab. A quarter of a million people died during the famine. Most were under the age of six, according to the U.N.
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Syria's war, explained in graphics - CNN.com - 0 views

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  • War in Syria: Six graphics that explain the latest on the ground
  • Russia says it's taking the fight to ISIS but the U.S. isn't buying it
  • But Russia's arrival on the scene marks a new and uncertain chapter in a war that has now killed more than 250,000 people since 2011.
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  • Russia has commercial and military interests in Syria it could lose if there's a regime change, so it is trying to preserve the rule of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, a key ally in the region.
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Scientist: We've grown a nearly full human 'mini brain' - CNN.com - 0 views

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  • Human 'mini brains' grown in labs may help solve cancer, autism, Alzheimer's
  • These little blobs of tissue, 2-3 millimeters long, could help researchers test drugs and other treatments that may help prevent, fight and maybe even cure some of the most devastating disorders and diseases of our time. 
  • Technically, they're not quite "brains." They're called brain organoids —  pieces of human tissue grown in petri dishes from skin cells. 
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  • Anand said he has grown organoids that include 98% of cells that exist in a brain of a human fetus at five weeks. 
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Snowden still waiting for U.S. response to prison offer - CNNPolitics.com - 0 views

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  • Edward Snowden's ready to go to prison, waiting on answer from U.S.
  • Later in July, the White House rejected a petition that had gathered more than 167,000 signatures calling for President Obama to pardon Snowden, who has been charged with three felony counts, including violations of the U.S. Espionage Act.
  • Snowden said. "I have paid a price but I feel comfortable with the decisions that I have made. If I'm gone tomorrow, I'm happy with what I had. I feel blessed."
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Carly Fiorina's Mystery Foundation - The Daily Beast - 0 views

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  • Carly Fiorina’s Mystery Foundation
  • But she doesn’t oppose Planned Parenthood enough, it seems, to care if the organization that controls the Fiorina Foundation, her mysterious charity outfit, also distributes funds to the group—nearly half a million dollars since 2011.
  • It wasn’t registered with the IRS, either. Meaning that, were it really a foundation, it would be violating the law, which demands that private foundations file annual 990 forms.
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  • foundation is defined as a “nongovernmental, nonprofit organization having a principal fund managed by its own trustees or directors.”
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3 Scientists Win Nobel Prize in Medicine for Parasite-Fighting Therapies - The New York... - 0 views

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  • 3 Scientists Win Nobel Prize in Medicine for Parasite-Fighting Therapies
  • They shared the $900,000 award with Youyou Tu, who discovered Artemisinin, a drug that has significantly reduced death rates from malaria.
  • Parasitic worms afflict a third of the world’s population, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia and Latin America.
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  • In Africa alone, it saves more than 100,000 lives each year.
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Syria conflict: Russia launches fresh strikes - BBC News - 0 views

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  • Syria conflict: Russia launches fresh strikes
  • Russia said it had hit 12 IS positions in the past 24 hours, although this cannot be independently verified.
  • Hassan Haj Ali, of the Liwa Suqour al-Jabal group, told Reuters news agency that about 20 missiles had hit their training camp in Idlib province.
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  • More than 50 planes and helicopters are involved in the Russian military operation in Syria, Russia's defence ministry said.
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Bernie Sanders Narrows Fund-Raising Gap With Hillary Clinton - The New York Times - 0 views

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  • Bernie Sanders Narrows Fund-Raising Gap With Hillary Clinton
  • Mrs. Clinton, who has been able to tap into one of the most successful fund-raising networks in American politics, reported raising more than $28 million for her primary campaign since the beginning of July, while Mr. Sanders, who has largely eschewed fund-raising from large donors, reported raising about $26 million.
  • when she brought in a total of $47.5 million, almost all of it for the primary campaign.
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The Cost of Mobile Ads on 50 News Websites - The New York Times - 0 views

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  • The Cost of Mobile Ads on 50 News Websites
  • Data is also expensive. We estimated that on an average American cell data plan, each megabyte downloaded over a cell network costs about a penny. Visiting the home page of Boston.com every day for a month would cost the equivalent of about $9.50 in data usage just for the ads.
  • Here are all the files that made up the Boston.com data during one visit, including one large video ad and many script files used by ad networks. With an ad blocker, those files were gone.
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She Was the Cartel's Top Assassin. And Then Her Boyfriend Turned Her In. - The Daily Beast - 0 views

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  • She Was the Cartel’s Top Assassin. And Then Her Boyfriend Turned Her In.
  • The security forces burst into the house south of La Paz hoping they had finally caught up with Mexico’s murder queen, the cartel assassin-in-chief known as La China who is said to be responsible for more than 150 killings.
  • She continued a 10-year career in which she had killed her way from an ordinary hit woman to the leader of a squad of 50 murderers to the boss of the of Las Fuerzas Especiales de los Damaso, the “special forces” army of assassins founded by Damaso Lopez Nunez, aka El Licenciado.
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Really, really big black hole detected - CNN.com - 0 views

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  • Black hole is 30 times bigger than expected
  • The galaxy, with the very clunky name of SAGE0536AGN, was discovered with NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. Scientists think it's about 9 billion years old.
  • The data indicated the black hole is 30 times larger than expected for this size of galaxy, according to a press release from the Royal Astronomical Society.
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  • Scientists aren't sure whether SAGE0536AGN is just a fluke or whether they've found a new class of galaxies.
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Fleeing ISIS tyranny: Agony of the Yazidis - CNN.com - 0 views

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  • Fleeing ISIS tyranny: Agony of the Yazidis
  • The faith's roughly 600,000 members are taught that for centuries, they have been persecuted by the majority Muslim population that surrounds them.
  • Yazidi leaders often say their community suffered 73 massacres and genocides.
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  • "ISIS has taken us back 1,400 years," Othman said.
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NASA Says Signs of Liquid Water Flowing on Mars - The New York Times - 0 views

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  • NASA Says Signs of Liquid Water Flowing on Mars
  • Though young Mars was inundated by rivers, lakes and maybe even an ocean a few billion years ago, the modern moisture is modest. Scientists have long known that large amounts of water remain — but frozen solid in the polar ice caps.
  • They named the streaks recurrent slope linae, or R.S.L.s, and many thousands of them have now been spotted.
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Did Flint, Michigan, Just Lead Poison Its Children? Doctors Think So. - The Daily Beast - 0 views

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  • Did Flint, Michigan, Just Lead Poison Its Children? Doctors Think So.
  • In 2013, about 2 percent of tests had results over 5 micrograms per deciliter (the current “safe” cut-off level, above which steps to identify and mitigate the source of lead exposure are recommended).
  • About 4 percent of the later samples revealed elevated levels. Areas that yielded the highest blood levels had an increase in abnormal samples from 2.5 percent to 6.3 percent.
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Boehner Will Resign from Congress - The New York Times - 0 views

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  • Boehner Will Resign from Congress
  • WASHINGTON — Speaker John A. Boehner will resign from Congress and give up his House seat at the end of October, according to aides in his office.
  • Mr. Boehner was under extreme pressure from the right wing of his conference over whether or not to defund Planned Parenthood in a bill to keep the government open.
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Pope Francis Challenges Congress to Heal World's 'Open Wounds' - The New York Times - 0 views

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  • Pope Francis Challenges Congress to Heal World’s ‘Open Wounds’
  • Francis became the first pope ever to address a joint meeting of Congress, a milestone in the journey of the Catholic Church in the United States, and it generated enormous interest.
  • He also warned of the excesses of globalization, though in far more measured tones than he has in the past, when he used fiery language and the memorable phrase “dung of the devil” to describe unbridled capitalism.
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Why Volkswagen's share price has fallen so far | The Economist - 0 views

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  • Why Volkswagen’s share price has fallen so far
  • Over the weekend, the company was accused by America's Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) of cheating emissions tests.
  • The carmaker could still face a fine of up to $18 billion—more if regulators find that it committed similar acts in Europe and Asia.
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