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...culture that used to unify us as a nation." But really the watercooler has just moved. Online, fans can bond with thousands of like-minded viewers rather than just a few co-workers. We don't all sit en masse for Must-See TV, but cultural moments - from late-night TV to the news to American Idol - are disseminated widely through YouTube and cable...
...suffering a head bump that seemed no worse than my daughter's, was not so fortunate. In the wake of Richardson's death, the question on a lot of minds is what distinguishes one kind of head trauma from another--and how you can tell before it's too late. (See the top 10 medical breakthroughs...
...concept. Institutions in Indiana and Pennsylvania took in the children of dead Civil War veterans, and Louisiana and Illinois offered residential programs for gifted students in the 1980s. But publicly financing boarding schools for inner-city kids is a very different proposition. It was revolutionary in the late 1990s, when two consultants quit their jobs and began raising money to open the SEED School, a charter school in gritty Southeast Washington...
...same zeitgeist made gambling ubiquitous: until the late '80s, only Nevada and New Jersey had casinos, but now 12 states do, and 48 have some form of legalized betting. It's as if we decided that Mardi Gras and Christmas are so much fun, we ought to make them a year-round way of life. And we started living large literally as well as figuratively. From the beginning to the end of the long boom, the size of the average new house increased by about half. Meanwhile, the average American gained about a pound a year, so that an adult...
...state-run newspaper Sovietskaya Belorussiya, or Soviet Belarus, had published an article mocking her and her complaint. "The state drove her to suicide," says Valery Shchukin, a member of the Belarusian Helsinki Committee for human rights who worked with Palyakova. "The police wouldn't leave her alone - ringing her late at night. The judgment was the end of the world for her. She was very frightened...