Tuesday, February 16, 2016

RSN: How Low Will the Clinton Camp Go?, Greenland's Meltwater May Fertilize Fjords With Phosphorus




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Steve Wiessman | How Low Will the Clinton Camp Go?
Bernie Sanders, right, a member of the Congress of Racial Equality steering committee, stands next to University of Chicago president George Beadle, who is speaking at a CORE meeting on housing sit-ins in 1962. (photo: Special Collections Research Center/University of Chicago Library)
Steve Wiessman, Reader Supported News
Weissman writes: "Congressman John Lewis has shamed himself. Long a hero to now-aging activists, he sullied his long-expected endorsement of Hillary Clinton by disparaging her opponent Bernie Sanders' well-documented participation in the civil rights struggle as a student at the University of Chicago."
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Results in Key Cases Could Change With Scalia's Death
Mark Sherman, Associated Press
Sherman writes: "The Supreme Court abhors even numbers. But that's just what the court will have to deal with, perhaps for many months, after the death of Justice Antonin Scalia. Eight justices will decide what to do, creating the prospect of 4-4 ties."
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The 'New Look' of the Post-Obama Electorate
Theodore R. Johnson, The Atlantic
Johnson writes: "African Americans are converging around an abundance of issues, wanting to be heard and employing new strategies to achieve it."
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Airstrike Destroys MSF-Supported Hospital in Northern Syria
Bassem Mroue, Associated Press
Mroue writes: "An airstrike in the northern Syrian province of Idlib destroyed a makeshift clinic supported by an international aid group on Monday, killing and wounding several people, activists and the group said."
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Columbine Mother Sue Klebold's First TV Interview Was a Startling Look at the Parent of a Mass Shooter
Dave Cullen, Vanity Fair
Exerpt: "The mother of Dylan Klebold, who along with Eric Harris killed 13 people and themselves at their Colorado high school in 1999, talked about her life before and after the massacre on camera for the first time on Friday night. The interview helped further fill in a complicated family portrait, writes Dave Cullen, author of the definitive history Columbine."
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Pope Condemns Drug Trade's 'Dealers of Death' in Mexico
Nicole Winfield and Jacobo Garcia, Associated Press
Excerpt: "Pope Francis condemned the drug trade's 'dealers of death' and urged Mexicans to shun the devil's lust for money as he led a huge open-air Mass for more than 300,000 people Sunday in violence-riddled Ecatepec."
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Greenland's Meltwater May Fertilize Fjords With Phosphorus
Christopher Intagliata, Scientific American
Intagliata writes: "The massive ice sheet topping Greenland is losing nearly 300 billion tons a year to melting, according to NASA estimates. And all that meltwater means rising seas. But it's also dumping huge amounts of nutrients and minerals into Arctic waters."
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