American foreign aid to Egypt
Egypt gets more U.S. foreign aid than any other country except Israel. The U.S. has been sending an average of $2 billion in cash and military arms to Egypt every year since 1979, when it agreed to a peace deal with Israel.
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In Mideast, U.S. loses most troops to suicide
For the second year in a row, in 2010 the U.S. military lost more troops to suicide than in combat operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. At least 468 soldiers killed themselves in 2010.
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Whales return to waters off New York City
Whales have returned to the waters just beyond New York harbor, thanks to cleaner waters and international bans on whale hunting. Cornell University professor Chris Clark estimates that as many as 50 fin whales now live just past the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge, which connects Brooklyn to Staten Island.
New York Daily News
Steep rise in hospice and nursing home care
Federal spending on hospice care tripled between 2000 and 2007, to more than $10 billion a year. Nursing homes and hospices are now among the top 10 employers in 20 different states.
Politico.com
A gender bias in Wikipedia’s entries
Only 15 percent of Wikipedia’s hundreds of thousands of contributors are female. As a result, the site’s entries are
distinctly skewed toward male interests: The biography of award-winning female author Pat Barker, for example, is three paragraphs long, whereas the article on Niko Bellic, a character in the video game Grand Theft Auto IV, is five times as long.
The New York Times
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August 23 editorial cartoonsCartoons Saturday's political cartoons include deficit dimness, steamroller-in-chief, and more
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5 museum-grade cartoons about Trump's Smithsonian purgeCartoons Artists take on institutional rebranding, exhibit interpretation, and more
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Settling the West Bank: a death knell for a Palestine state?In the Spotlight The reality on the ground is that the annexation of the West Bank is all but a done deal
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Very rich and very poor in California, and morefeature California is home to 111 billionaires, yet it also suffers the highest poverty rate in the country.
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Arctic cold kills tree insects, and more
feature This winter’s arctic temperatures have had at least one beneficial impact: They’ve killed ash borers, gypsy moths, and other tree-eating insects.
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Congress's poor record, and more
feature The 113th Congress is on course to pass less legislation than any Congress in history.
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Gender differences in employment, and more
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A first for West Point, and more
feature For the first time, two male graduates of West Point were married at the military academy’s chapel.
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A God given land?, and more
feature More white evangelical Protestants than U.S Jews believe that Israel was “given to the Jewish people by God.”
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Jailing the mentally ill, and more
feature American prisons have replaced state mental hospitals as a place to warehouse the mentally ill.
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Treating Internet addiction, and more
feature Treating Internet addiction; Freshman virgins at Harvard; A salary handicap for lefties; Prices for vintage automobiles soar; Gun permits for blind people