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Sci-Fi, Cli-Fi, We All Cry: the End Is Nigh
ReutersJun 12 (TheWrap.com) - Last month I noted here at TheWrap how two stories at NPR and the Christian Science Monitor catapulted the emerging literary and movie marketing term "cli-fi" (a term I coined in this very blog as short for climate-change fiction)...Tags: United Kingdom, Environmental Issues, Genres, Conservation, Ecosystems
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National History Day contest: Where history is hip
McClatchy Washington BureauWASHINGTON Not many 14-year-olds know where Hurtletoot, Northern Ireland, is. "It's a path and two farms," says Nicole Crumpler, a rising high school freshman from Coppell, Texas, near Fort Worth. "Just a little place," said her twin sister, Erin. "It's...Tags: Culture, Awards and Prizes, Google Inc., Education, Ellis Island
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Edward R. Murrow Awards for ABC's Newtown Coverage and CNN's Syria Reporting
ReutersJun 12 (TheWrap.com) - CNN won three Edward R. Murrow awards for its Syria coverage, while ABC won three for its coverage of the Newtown, Conn., elementary school killings. The awards honoring the best in television and radio journalism also recognized...Tags: ESPN (tv network), Stuxnet Virus, ABC (tv network), Television Industry, CBS Corp.
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Searching for a long-lost Pearl Buck manuscript? Try a storage locker
McClatchy Washington BureauWASHINGTON In the unlikeliest of finds, a literary treasure by Nobel Prize-winning author Pearl S. Buck was discovered late last year in Fort Worth, Texas, and in, of all places, a storage locker up for auction. The shocking find by the buyer of the...Tags: Nobel Prize Awards, Awards and Prizes, Auction Service, Rentals, Pulitzer Prize Awards
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New reservation parole program to begin
PIERRE — Beginning with the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe next week, state officials are scheduled to start visiting Indian reservations in South Dakota to lay the foundation for new tribal parole programs. State Tribal Affairs Secretary J.R....Tags: Dennis Daugaard, Government, Punishment, Keystone XL Pipeline, National Government
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George Zimmerman trial: Day 2 of jury selection for Trayvon Martin shooting
SANFORD — For now, they are nameless people, potential jurors in the George Zimmerman murder trial whose identities are protected by court order. But if they're chosen, that will change once the trial ends. On Day 2 of jury selection Tuesday, that...
Tags: Trayvon Martin, Media Industry, George Zimmerman, Trials, Jesse Jackson
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In George Zimmerman trial, potential jurors asked to set aside publicity
The Miami HeraldSANFORD, Fla. Race relations, Florida's self-defense law and Trayvon Martin's attire and school suspension emerged as key issues Tuesday as lawyers in the George Zimmerman murder trial grilled jurors about the effects of publicity in the case. It was the...Tags: Sanford, Recreational Substance Use, Justice and Rights, George Zimmerman, The Miami Herald
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George Zimmerman: A day of media profiling
Staff writerUPDATED: Day 2 of the George Zimmerman trial was often about media profiling. How much can you tell about a person from his or her news sources? If you hear that a man listens to NPR or watches Fox News Channel, can you form a view of him? Jury...Tags: Trayvon Martin, Crime, Law and Justice, George Zimmerman, HLN (tv network), Seminole County
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After Santa Monica shooting, KCRW staffers back on the air, healing
On Monday afternoon, three days after the Santa Monica shooting rampage in which John Zawahri killed five people, it was not business as usual at radio station KCRW. Some of the staff has sought out counseling. Others have taken time off work to heal...
Tags: John Zawahri, Radio Industry, FBI, Colleges and Universities, Entertainment
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Pocos protestan frente a la corte mientras interrogan jurados
Especial para El SentinelEl juicio contra George Zimmerman continuó este martes en un juzgado de Sanford con las entrevistas a los integrantes de otro grupo de 100 de los 500 potenciales jurados, todos residentes del condado de Seminole, que aunque en su mayoría han confesado...Tags: Trayvon Martin, Sanford, George Zimmerman, Jesse Jackson
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News of the Weird: Mites Ate the Cheese
The Food and Drug Administration proposed recently to limit the quantity of tiny “mites” that could occupy imported cheese, even though living, crawling mites are a feature desired by aficionados. (“Cheese is absolutely alive!”...
Tags: Energy West Incorporated, Food and Drug Administration, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Medicaid, Explosions
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6/12/2013-Business As Unusual
I suspect all the governors in America would like to lure Connecticut businesses to their states. We've got some of the biggest, most successful companies ever conceived by businessmankind. And, we have the smartest, most skilled, motivated workforce in...
Tags: Quitting Smoking, Government, Tobacco Products, George W. Bush, Rick Perry
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