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Jerrold D. Green: Obama, Take Note: Wireless Revolution Is Coming in Myanmar
On Monday, President Thein Sein became Myanmar's first head of state to visit the White House in 47 years. His discussions with President Barack Obama focused largely on U.S. support of Myanmar's recent democratic reforms, as well as the very public challenge of continuing sectarian violence in rural areas of the...
huffingtonpost.com (48 minutes ago)
The New Dungeons & Dragons Goes To Print In Ghosts of Dragonspear Castle
A year ago today, Dungeons & Dragons publisher Wizards of the Coast launched a public playtest of a new edition of the classic fantasy role-playing game. Codenamed D&D Next, the rules are an ambitious redesign meant to unify four decades and five editions' worth of players under one single system --and now...
forbes.com (3 hours ago)
Making It on 'the Fork': Long Island's North Fork
Contrary to popular myth, not all ambitious young food and wine professionals end up in New York (or, more specifically, Brooklyn). Some actually migrate all the way east to Long Island's North Fork.
wsj.com (14 hours ago)
Hirshhorn would go back to square one if Smithsonian bursts the Bubble
The Hirshhorn Museum’s board deadlocked Thursday on whether to forge ahead with the avant-garde inflatable structure known as the Bubble, as the museum’s director, Richard Koshalek, announced shortly afterward that he’ll quit later this year. Koshalek proposed the ambitious project four years ago to elevate the...
washingtonpost.com (14 hours ago)
Congres sees real gain in virtual game
Congress has decided to aggressively catch up with the BJP in the use of social media for the 2014 poll campaign with the party leadership embarking on a ambitious plan to level the playing field.
indiatimes.com (15 hours ago)
The Drone Speech and the Hyperexcited Return of Intellectual Obama
President Obama's speech on counterterrorism on Thursday won rave reviews among some who seemed to see it as a return of the liberal constitutional law professor who ran for president in 2008. MSNBC's Chris Matthews, who had soured on Obama earlier in the week, said Obama was at "the top of his form - speaking...
yahoo.com (17 hours ago)
What Salamanders Could Teach Scientists About Growing Human Limbs
Regeneration, salamander-style In an attempt to recreate the plot of multiple recent superhero movies, a team of Australian scientists is looking into the regenerative properties of salamanders--and into how humans can pull off the same trick. Salamanders, specifically the axolotl, are vertebrates that can...
popsci.com (18 hours ago)
Before Midnight: Very True Romance
Director Richard Linklater’s first two Before movies represented the types of romantic scenarios you dream of when you’re young-meeting the right person at an unexpected-but-perfect time and falling in love (Before Sunrise, 1995) and then encountering them again nine years later (Before Sunset, 2004), only to find...
time.com (19 hours ago)
Microsoft working on integrating Windows Phone with Xbox One
Microsoft is working on some important features for Windows Phone that could help it become more than an also-ran. Microsoft senior marketing manager Greg Sullivan tells PCMag that his company is working on a project with the goal of producing “an increased seamlessness and integration across” both Windows Phone and...
yahoo.com (22 hours ago)
Push for PE to Fight Childhood Obesity
An Institute of Medicine report out today makes some ambitious recommendations for physical education requirements in schools, including at least 30 minutes a day of movement during school hours.
abcnews.com (1 day ago)
London attack: now is the time to defend our liberties, not give in to fear | Isabella Sankey
The shocking violence on the streets of Woolwich fills us with horror and Liberty's thoughts remain with the loved ones of the man who lost his life in this senseless attack. Acts like these and subsequent ugly reprisals are designed to terrorise and provoke, to draw bright red lines between races, religions,...
guardian.co.uk (1 day ago)
Karen Gifford: Lean in to Yourself
Like many of my women friends, I recently read Sheryl Sandberg's Lean In, and I feel invigorated by its mix of honesty, generous advice and boldness. Sandberg's advice is most relevant for women at the early stages of their careers, but so what? It's pretty wonderful to see an established, successful woman taking...
huffingtonpost.com (1 day ago)
Gregoris Kalai: The Jay Gatsby in All of Us
There is a Jay Gatbsy in all of us. Despite our best efforts to be content and happy with what ever our current circumstances are, we have evolved to want more. More what? Well, more of anything and everything. After all, that is the American dream, embodied in the smell of a new car or that of new shoes. The list...
huffingtonpost.com (1 day ago)
Massimiliano Gioni, of Venice Biennale
Massimiliano Gioni’s ambitious Venice Biennale art extravaganza opens this week.
nytimes.com (1 day ago)
Mega-Stansted ‘would cut flights over London’
Backers of ambitious plans to turn Stansted into a four-runway hub airport today claimed the scheme would reduce the number of flights over London.
standard.co.uk (1 day ago)
Mega-Stansted ‘would cut flights over capital’
Backers of ambitious plans to turn Stansted into a four-runway hub airport today claimed the scheme would reduce the number of flights over London.
standard.co.uk (1 day ago)
Chicago Board of Education to close 50 schools, programs
CHICAGO – The Chicago Board of Education voted Wednesday to close 50 schools and programs, an ambitious plan that has sparked protests and lawsuits and could help define – for better or worse – Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s term in office.
nwherald.com (1 day ago)
Education reform: Iowa shapes 'ambitious' program
Iowa's multimillion-dollar bid to increase the quality of its teaching force will be watched closely by education leaders and policymakers throughout the nation, experts predict.
desmoinesregister.com (1 day ago)
Chicago board votes to close 50 schools
CHICAGO -- The Chicago Board of Education voted Wednesday to close 50 schools and programs, an ambitious plan that has sparked protests and lawsuits and could help define -- for better or worse -- May
thonline.com (1 day ago)
Europe: The Struggle for Supremacy by Brendan Simms – review
"In the state of nature which Hobbes imagined," AJP Taylor declared in the opening sentence of his classic study of 19th-century international relations, The Struggle for Mastery in Europe, "violence was the only law, and life was 'nasty, brutish and short'. Though individuals never lived in this state of nature,...
guardian.co.uk (1 day ago)
India's Wind-Power Target Is up in the Air
India's ambitious push to increase the share of wind power in its total power generation portfolio could falter due to slow progress in implementing policies to attract investment to the sector.
wsj.com (1 day ago)
Surrey Chairman Richard Thompson won't let tragedy hold up his ambitious plan - Paul Newman
Richard Thompson, the youngest chairman in county history and an increasingly influential figure in the English game, takes a moment to ponder how Surrey have coped with the death of Tom Maynard and the frustration of their attempt to move on by signing Graeme Smith being scuppered by injury.
dailymail.co.uk (1 day ago)
Slow Growth Could Delay Russia Military Spending
Russia could postpone its ambitious military spending program as an economic slowdown forces the government to review its spending plans, the country's finance minister indicated.
wsj.com (1 day ago)
RIL to roll out 4G in Bengal, plans to invest Rs 3000cr
Mukesh Ambani is saying hello to Bengal all over again with a Rs 3,000-crore investment plan for the rollout of fourth generation, or 4G, mobile and internet services, five years after his corporate behemoth, Reliance Industries, had to abandon its ambitious retail plans in the state in the face of protests.
indiatimes.com (1 day ago)
Billionaire Explains Where Real Learning Takes Place
If you're a member of the Class of 2013 and want to some day be rich enough to own your own island, you may want to pay attention to Virgin Group founder Richard Branson's advice. "Be ambitious. There probably won't be another time in your life when you have such freedom of opportunity. Grasp it with both hands,"...
huffingtonpost.com (1 day ago)
Chicago Board of Education votes to close 50 schools
The Chicago Board of Education voted Wednesday to close 50 schools and programs, an ambitious plan that has sparked protests and lawsuits and could help define - for better or worse - Mayor Rahm Emanuel's term in office.
northjersey.com (1 day ago)
Chicago Board of Ed votes to close 50 schools
CHICAGO-The Chicago Board of Education voted Wednesday to close 50 schools and programs, an ambitious plan that has sparked protests and lawsuits and could help define-for better or worse-Mayor Rahm Emanuel's term in office.
denverpost.com (1 day ago)
Outcry from Chicago teachers as city votes to close 50 schools
The Chicago board of education voted Wednesday to close 50 schools and programs, an ambitious plan that has sparked protests and lawsuits and could help define - for better or worse - Mayor Rahm Emanuel's term in office. City officials say the closings are necessary because of falling school enrolment and as part of...
guardian.co.uk (1 day ago)
Chicago Board of Ed votes to shut down 50 schools
Ambitious proposal to close the city's 50 schools sparked protests and lawsuits
cbsnews.com (1 day ago)
Chicago Board of Education votes to close 50 schools
The Chicago Board of Education has made a final vote to close 50 schools. The ambitious proposal that sparked protests and lawsuits could help define -- for better or worse -- Mayor Rahm Emanuel's term in office. The board voted Wednesday. City officials say the closings are necessary because of falling school...
foxnews.com (1 day ago)
