Cambridge Topics
Cambridge Topic: The role of history and war; terrorism
Website: Time.com
URL: http://time.com/3652762/suspect-terrorism-abu-anas-al-libi-new-york-libya/
Date: Jan. 3, 2015
Title: Suspected Plotter of U.S. Embassy Attacks Abu Anas Al-Libi Dies in New Yor
Article: A one-time associate of Osama Bin Laden died in New York on Friday while awaiting trial for allegedly plotting the 1998 bombings of U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. Abu Anas al-Libi, 50, was captured in Libya by U.S. commandos in Oct. 2013 and brought to New York where he was due to stand trial. He had been wanted for more than a decade and there was a $5 million reward for his arrest. Al-Libi had pleaded not guilty.
Cambridge Topic: The role of the individual in society - the family, marriage, peer pressure, class
Website: Time.com
URL: http://time.com/3067694/weheartit-teen-girls-bullying-instagram/
Date: Aug. 5, 2014
Title: Teen Girls Describe the Harsh Unspoken Rules of Online Popularity
Article: Most teens live, at least in part, on social media, the virtual platforms that shape their real worlds–places where they joke, flirt and seek constant, elusive validation from their peers. Most of what goes on isn’t easily visible to adults, but a new survey reveals what teenage girls think of the darker, more anti-social side of this universe.
Cambridge Topic: Cultural changes - youth and drug culture
Website: Go.galegroup.com
URL: http://go.galegroup.com/ps/retrieve.do?sgHitCount&sort=DA-SORT&inPS=true&prodId=STND&userGroupName=fl_sarhs&tabID=T004&searchId=R1&resultList&contentSegment=&search¤tPosition=3&contentSet=GALE%7CA392897793&&docId=GALE|A392897793&doc&role=
Date: Dec. 9, 2014
Title: Residents Gather to Learn About Alcohol, Drug Trends.
Article: Community members gathered at the Moses Lake Civic Auditorium Thursday to hear Idaho law enforcement officer Jermaine Galloway's presentation on current alcohol and drugs trends. The presentation was hosted by the Moses Lake Community Prevention Coalition and Grant County Prevention and Recovery Center. From the current drug culture, to MDMA (Ecstasy), binge drinking, prescription cough syrup abuse, "dabbing" (getting high off hash oils) and e-cigarette devices, Galloway presented new information about drug abuse.
Cambridge Topic: Education and welfare
Website: Go.galegroup.com
URL: http://go.galegroup.com/ps/retrieve.do?sgHitCount&sort=DA-SORT&inPS=true&prodId=STND&userGroupName=fl_sarhs&tabID=T004&searchId=R2&resultList&contentSegment=&search¤tPosition=2&contentSet=GALE%7CA395748779&&docId=GALE|A395748779&doc&role=
Date: Jan. 3, 2015
Title: Senate Obstruction Means Strange Education Policy
Article: The rapid build-up of student debt and the potential for greater default rates increasingly are mentioned as risk factors for government finances down the track. According to Andrew Norton of the Grattan Institute, the total value of student debt could double during the next four years to about $64 billion, while the proportion of debt that will not be repaid could increase markedly - by up to six percentage points.
Cambridge Topic: Sport, leisure, international competition
Website: Nationalgeographic.com
URL: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2014/05/140521-geography-bee-national-geographic-world-scholarship-students/?now=2014-05-21-00:01
Date: May 21, 2014
Title: Meet the 2014 NWational Geographic Bee Champion
Article: The annual event held at National Geographic's Washington, D.C., headquarters peppers students with questions about mountain peaks and obscure national borders, one at a time until only one remains. Rekulapelli bested more than four million students, who originally competed in school-level bees across the U.S.
Cambridge Topic: Wealth, changes in work practice
Website: Nationalgeaographic.com
URL: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2010/06/100616-energy-afghanistan-lithium/
Date: June 16, 2010
Title: Afghanistan's Lithium Wealth Could Remain Elusive
Article: Somewhere in the trackless lands that make up much of Afghanistan (map), just to the right or left of the Old Silk Road, there are apparently huge caches of untapped wealth in the form of metal and stone prized in both the ancient world and the modern: gold, copper, and lapis lazuli, to name a few. In recent days, the U.S. military and geologists working with the Pentagon have pointed to the deposits, whose value has been estimated at about a trillion dollars, as an elixir that promises to drastically alter the troubled Afghanistan economy.
Cambridge Topic: The importance and impact of tourism on a country - implications for economy, employment, public transport, environmental concerns
Website: Npr.org
URL: http://www.npr.org/2014/12/19/371821079/tourism-industry-gears-up-for-cuban-travel-ban-to-be-lifted
Date: Dec. 19, 2014
Title: Tourism Industry Gears Up For Lifting of Cuban Travel Ban
Article: Congress must act to lift the ban outright. But in the meantime, the administration plans to relax travel restrictions by simplifying the licensing process. But even with looser legal restrictions, in the short term, more pragmatic concerns will remain. For example, no U.S. carriers fly there, so direct travel requires a chartered plane. Health care must be arranged since Cuba's system doesn't accept U.S. insurance. And U.S. citizens traveling in Cuba haven't been allowed to use credit cards or ATMs.
Cambridge Topic: The provision and politics of aid
Website: Npr.org
URL: http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2015/01/01/374194902/ebola-aid-workers-still-avoiding-new-york-and-new-jersey
Date: Jan. 1, 2015
Title: Ebola Aid Workers Still Avoiding New York and New Jersey
Article: Here's how state officials in New Jersey and New York explain the rules today: A health care worker who treated Ebola patients can serve her mandatory quarantine at home in New Jersey or in New York. If you don't live in those two states — and you have no symptoms that suggest you might have Ebola — you will be allowed to pass through the airport, and return to wherever you live.
Cambridge Topic: The state and its institutions; development of state, democracy, post-imperialism, nationalism
Website: Sciencedaily.com
URL: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/07/140724134029.htm
Date: July 24, 2014
Title: Election Surprises Tend to Erode Trust in Government
Article: When asked who is going to win an election, people tend to predict their own candidate will come out on top. When that doesn't happen, according to a new study, these 'surprised losers' often have less trust in government and democracy.
Cambridge Topic: Minority groups, pressure groups
Website: Sciencedaily.com
URL: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/03/140303154100.htm
Date: March 3, 2014
Title: Race Relations Affected by Where You Live
Article: People's racial prejudices are influenced by where they live, reports a new study by psychologists. The researchers found that levels of racial prejudice among white people drop significantly when they live in ethnically mixed communities, even when they do not have direct contact with minorities. Simply seeing white strangers interacting positively with ethnic minorities is enough to reduce racial prejudice.
Cambridge Topic: Freedom of speech, action, thought
Website: Smithsonianmag.com
URL: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/your-facebook-likes-are-an-expression-of-free-speech-10312514/
Date: Sept. 20, 2013
Title: Your Facebook Likes Are An Expression of Free Speech
Article: The case that lead to the ruling, says the Atlantic, “has been watched closely, and for good reason. It’s obvious that First Amendment freedoms extend to the Internet. It’s more obvious still that the expressions and discussions that happen to be mediated through fiber-optic cables are precisely the kind of thing Mr. Madison and his merry band of misfits envisioned when they went out of their way to write the Bill of Rights as extensively as they did.”
Cambridge Topic: Judiciary
Website: Smithsonianmag.com
URL: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/deep-look-politicians-passed-civil-rights-act-1964-180951799/
Date: June 20, 2014
Title: A Deeper Look At The Politicians Who Passed The Civil Rights Act of 1964
Article: Congress had considered, and failed to pass, a civil rights bill every year from 1945 to 1957. In 1957, Congress finally managed to pass a limited Civil Rights Act, which it added to in 1960, but these bills offered black Americans only modest gains. It wasn't until 1963, in a televised speech, that President Kennedy called for a robust Civil Rights Act. Kennedy began his address by talking about the two black students who had recently enrolled in the University of Alabama, but needed the presence of Alabama National Guardsmen in order to safely attend classes.
Cambridge Topic: Matters of conscience, faith, tolerance, equality, opportunity
Website: Theguardian.com
URL: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/dec/28/religious-tolerance-unstable-world
Date: Dec. 28, 2014
Title: Religious Tolerance in an Unstable World
Article: The persecution of Christians around the world in the name of religion is a reflection of the poor state of religious freedom in too many countries (Editorial, 26 December). A report this year showed that 60% of the world’s countries were experiencing a serious decline in religious freedom, where minorities endure violence and discrimination. The way of judging any civilisation is how it treats its minorities. We should heed the great political philosopher Karl Popper, who advocated “in the name of tolerance, the right not to tolerate the intolerant”. Popper explained: “We should claim that any movement preaching intolerance places itself outside the law, and we should consider incitement to intolerance and persecution as criminal, in the same way as we should consider incitement to murder, or to kidnapping, or to the revival of the slave trade, as criminal.”
Cambridge Topic: Corruption
Website: Theguardian.com
URL: http://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2011/dec/01/corruption-index-2011-transparency-international
Date: Dec. 1, 2011
Title: Corruption Index 2011 From Transparency International: Find Out How Countries Compare
Article: The CPI scores countries on a scale of zero to 10, with zero indicating high levels of corruption and 10, low levels. And the most corrupt places in the world are not the most surprising. Unstable governments, often with a legacy of conflict, continue to dominate the bottom rungs of the CPI. Afghanistan and Myanmar share second to last place with a score of 1.5, with Somalia and North Korea - measured for the first time - coming in last with a score of 1.
Cambridge Topic: Medical dilemmas and issues of research and ethics; concept of progress in science
Website: Propublica.org
URL: http://www.propublica.org/article/why-patients-dont-report-medical-errors
Date: Sept. 25, 2012
Title: Why Patients Don't Report Medical Errors
Article: I was recently browsing through the nearly 200 stories we’ve compiled with our Patient Harm Questionnaire, when I was reminded again of a troubling truth. Many of the people who suffer harm while undergoing medical care do not file formal complaints with regulators. The reasons are numerous: They’re often traumatized, disabled, unaware they’ve been a victim of a medical error or don’t understand the bureaucracy. That’s a problem for those individual patients and for the rest of us. There are many places to complain: a state licensing agency; a professional licensing board that monitors doctors or nurses; the Joint Commission, which accredits hospitals or a Medicare Quality Improvement Organization. But if there are no complaints, there are no independent investigations, and that means no outside accountability for providers who may have made mistakes, and no public inspection reports that documents the case -- assuming an agency makes reports public, which is not always the case. It’s a collective problem because patient safety flaws that remain hidden, if they are not corrected, may be repeated.
Cambridge Topic: Drug Manufacture and provision
Website: Propublica.org
URL: http://www.propublica.org/article/no-substitute-when-a-generic-drug-isnt-what-it-seems
Date: April 15, 2013
Title: No Substitute: When a Generic Drug Isn't What It Seems
Article: Andrew Richards remembers that he had just sat down in front of the TV when the lightning bolt struck. "It was almost like it went through my ear because I could hear it. It was kind of like, 'fwomp,' right through my head," he says. Stunned and disoriented, Richards tried to get up, he says, but spasms rumbled through his torso and his back; his muscles kept clenching and relaxing. He doesn't recall falling. "It was almost like a little piece of time was missing, almost like a record skipped ahead a little bit," he says, "like I was sitting on my couch and time had moved forward and I was on the floor." The next thing Richards remembers was calling out to his wife, who scooped him up and drove him to the emergency room. He would soon discover that the lightning bolt that struck him down was an electrical storm taking place entirely in his brain: a seizure. Less than a year later he was in court, contending that his seizure -- and the spasms that he says still plague him -- were caused by a faulty generic medication.
Cambridge Topic: Diet, health education
Website: CNN.com
URL: http://www.cnn.com/2015/01/02/opinion/gupta-health-challenges-2015/index.html
Date: Jan. 3, 2015
Title: America's Nine Biggest Health Issues
Article: Hospital errors and infections. Hospital mistakes and infections are still one of the leading causes of preventable death (indeed, some studies suggest"hospital-acquired conditions" kill more people than car accidents or diabetes).
Cambridge Topic: Old and new industries
Website: CNN.com
URL: http://www.cnn.com/2014/12/22/tech/south-africa-space-ska/index.html#em0
Date: Dec. 24, 2014
Title: South Africa's Race to Space: Could Studying Big Bang Bring Big Bucks?
Article: It's here, in South Africa's Karoo desert, that construction is scheduled to begin on the Square Kilometer Array, a cluster of 3,000 satellites working in tandem over a square kilometer area. This highly sensitive collective of dishes and antennas will combine to act as a giant radio telescope -- the biggest in the world when built, according to the SKA Organization -- probing the dark heart of space.
Cambridge Topic: Spin offs from space industry; weaponry
Website: Yahoo.com
URL: http://www.futurefirepower.com/small-diameter-bomb-gbu-39
Date: Feb. 13, 2009
Title: Small Diameter Bomb - GBU-39
Article: Since the days of the first Gulf War, when it became clear to the world that precision air strikes would be the “go to” option for the opening rounds of nearly any theater scale military operations, the technology of precision guided munitions has increased rapidly. We have witnessed bombs being guided into their targets by lasers, GPS, and even a human watching through a camera on the nose of the weapon. Once the concept of precision guidance was no longer a novelty, the virtuous auspices of limiting collateral damage and economic efficiency have led military planners and weapons designers to push the envelope of precision weapon technology even further.
Cambridge Topic: Information and communications technology; the internet
Website: Yahoo.com
URL: http://www2.uncp.edu/home/acurtis/NewMedia/NewMediaCommunicationTechnologies.html
Date: Not stated
Title: New Media of Mass Communication
Article: Here are some contemporary New Media communication technologies that are a mix of mass communication and interpersonal communication. Virtual Reality Worlds: A virtual world is simulated by a computer, displayed as a three-dimensional environment on the computer's monitor screen, and intended for its users to inhabit and interact via graphical avatar representations of themselves. The best known 3-D virtual-reality environment is Second Life created by the San Francisco company Linden Lab. SL's more than 15 million residents create avatars representing themselves, build and create objects and clothing, and interact with each other in the setting of a user-created virtual world complete with its own economy in which they may own land. SL is not a game. It has no game rules, no scoring, no winners, no losers. Instead, it is a social networking environment widely used for recreation, commerce and education.
Cambridge Topic: Environmental concerns; renewable energy resources; climate change
Website: Theartnewspaper.com
URL: http://www.theartnewspaper.com/articles/Storm-brewing-over-historic-Miami-homes/36512
Date: Dec. 6, 2014
Title: Storm Brewing Over Historic Miami Homes
Article: Bigger is not always better, say those seeking to preserve Miami Beach’s historic single-family homes, which are being bulldozed to make room for new super-sized mansions. This year has seen a 30% rise in the number of petitions to demolish homes built before 1942—the cut-off year used by the City of Miami Beach to designate historic significance. The recent razing of a 1920s Mediterranean Revival home on ultra-exclusive Star Island following a lengthy battle between preservationists and a high-profile Miami Beach couple has led campaigners to call for a change in the regulations to protect these historic properties and curb the proliferation of “McMansions”.
Cambridge Topic: Migration; population dynamics
Website: Theartnewspaper.com
URL: http://www.theartnewspaper.com/articles/A%20better%20Prospect%20for%20African-American%20artists/35776
Date: Oct. 21, 2014
Title: A Better Prospect For African American Artists
Article: Prospect 3, which opens in New Orleans, Louisiana, this month, is the most racially diverse US biennial in recent history. The exhibition features work by more African-American artists than the most recent Carnegie International, Whitney, Hammer Museum and Site Santa Fe biennials combined. Of Prospect’s 58 participating artists and collectives, 22 are African-American. Forty-four—around 76%—are artists of colour.
Cambridge Topic: Feeding the global population; farming techniques for the twenty-first century
Website: LAtimes.com
URL: http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/tv/la-et-st-tv-cooking-shows-20141127-story.html#page=1
Date: Nov. 27, 2014
Title: Holiday TV Programming Is a Feast For Adventurous Foodies
Article: "We hope you'll never look at your dinner plate the same way again," said Pam Caragol Wells, executive producer, National Geographic Studios, "and that you'll get some insight into the role that food plays in our lives and culture." The show dovetails with an eight-month series of in-depth articles from National Geographic magazine on feeding the world's fast-growing population and other global food topics.
Cambridge Topic: Public transport and travel
Website: LAtimes.com
URL: http://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-bullet-construction-start-20150105-story.html#page=1
Date: Jan. 4, 2015
Title: After Two-Year Delay, Construction on California's Bullet Train is Set to Start
Article: CAlifornia's bullet-train agency will officially start construction in Fresno this week on the first 29-mile segment of the system, a symbol of the significant progress the $68-billion project has made against persistent political and legal opposition. Over the last two years, the California High-Speed Rail Authority has prevailed in a series of court challenges to the project, won a federal exemption from state environmental rules, secured several key legislative victories that improved its future funding and made a politically savvy bet to move up by several years the inauguration of service in Southern California. But the milestone marked by Tuesday's groundbreaking ceremony also will serve as a reminder of the enormous financial, technical and political risks still faced by the Los Angeles-to-San Francisco project.
Cambridge Topic: The uses and applications of mathematics in everyday life
Website: WSJ.com
URL: http://blogs.wsj.com/experts/2014/12/09/make-this-calculation-an-annual-event/?KEYWORDS=mathematics
Date: Dec. 9, 2014
Title: Make This Calculation an Annual Event
Article: Once a year, attempt to calculate your investment return and compare it to the markets. This is especially important for people who are trying to beat the market with individual stock and mutual-fund picks. Most will find that they have been outperformed by the markets once again.
Cambridge Topic: Literature, biography, diary, science fiction
Website: WSJ.com
URL: http://www.wsj.com/articles/childrens-literature-for-the-ages-1418414536?KEYWORDS=literature
Date: Dec. 12, 2014
Title: Children's Literature For The Ages
Article: Children’s stories weren’t always warm and cozy. Four hundred years ago, children’s books were meant to edify, not entertain. A new exhibit called “One Hundred Books Famous in Children’s Literature,” at the Grolier Club in New York through Feb. 7, showcases—along with an accompanying book—how children’s literature has evolved from pious instruction to character-driven stories. It took curator Chris Loker, an antiquarian children’s bookshop owner in San Francisco, over two years to choose the exhibit’s selection of the 100 most influential children’s books, starting with the Latin schoolbook “Orbis Pictus” in 1658 and ending with the first Harry Potter novel in 1997. Over time, the books evolved to be more lighthearted and fantastic. “It became acceptable and important to teach children not only what they had to learn, but things that helped them in their lives as human beings,” says Ms. Loker.
Cambridge Topic: Language - heritage, tradition, dialect
Website: Foxnews.com
URL: http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/lifestyle/2015/01/04/pope-francis-reflects-on-church-diversity-with-new-cardinals/
Date: Jan 4, 2014
Title: Pope Francis Reflects on Church's Diversity With New Cardinals
Article: With his picks, the Argentine-born Francis, the first pontiff from Latin America, made ever clearer that he is laying out a new vision of the church's identity, including of its hierarchy. He looked beyond traditional metropolitan area for the "princes of the church" who will help advise him and elect his successor.
Cambridge Topic: The global media - TV, radio, satellite; influence and controls; effects on lifestyle, culture and habits; cultural dilution and diversification; advertising; role models
Website: Foxnews.com
URL: http://www.foxbusiness.com/investing/2015/01/03/directv-just-went-over-top-cable-companies/
Date: Jan. 3, 2015
Title: DIRECTV Just Went Over The Top of Cable Companies
Article: The Internet-delivered television revolution is fast approaching, with multiple companies planning to launch over-the-top services in 2015. DIRECTV beat them all to the punch a couple weeks ago, though, when it launched Yaveo. The only catch is that it's a Spanish-language service. While DIRECTV's new service is targeted at a specific audience,it's still a threat to cable companies likeComcast(NASDAQ: CMCSA)andTime Warner Cable(NYSE: TWC). Offering Yaveo for $7.99 per month, DIRECTV is essentially unbundling the premium Spanish-language packages provided by cable companies for about $10 a month on top of their regular cable bundle price.
Cambridge Topic: Censorship; privacy; the right to know; freedom of the press, etc. Uses and abuses
Website: NYtimes.com
URL: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/05/sunday-review/we-want-privacy-but-cant-stop-sharing.html?module=Search&mabReward=relbias%3Ar%2C%7B%222%22%3A%22RI%3A18%22%7D&_r=0
Date: Oct. 4, 2014
Title: We Want Privacy, But Can't Stop Sharing
Article: You need only read George Orwell’s“1984” or watch the film “Minority Report” to understand how surveillance is incompatible with a free society. And increasingly, people are coming to understand how their online data might be used against them. You might not get a job, a loan or a date because of an indiscreet tweet or if your address on Google Street View shows your brother-in-law’s clunker in the driveway. But less obvious is the psychic toll of the current data free-for-all.
Cambridge Topic: Traditional arts and crafts; creativity; national heritage/preservation; effects of tourism
Website: NYtimes.com
URL: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/26/arts/design/26ruin.html?module=Search&mabReward=relbias%3As%2C%7B%222%22%3A%22RI%3A18%22%7D
Date: July 26, 2008
Title: Saving Pompeii From the Ravages of Time and Tourists
Article: Citing threats to public security and to the site itself, the Italian government has for the first time declared a yearlong state of emergency for the ancient city of Pompeii. Frescoes in the ancient Roman city, one of Italy’s most popular attractions, fade under the blistering sun or are chipped at by souvenir hunters. Mosaics endure the brunt of tens of thousands of shuffling thongs and sneakers.
Cambridge Topic: Architecture; painting; fashion; photography; sculpture; music; heritage
Website: Eurekalert.org
URL: http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2009-10/njio-hti102309.php
Date: Oct. 23, 2009
Title: How Technology is Changing the Practice of Architecture Will Be Forum Subject
Article: NJIT's College of Architecture and Design (COAD) will host a public forum on the changing status of technology in architectural practice and the emerging potential for the role of architecture in the design of the built environment. The NJ Chapter of the American Institute of Architects will sponsor the free event, open to the public, set for Oct. 28, 2009, 1:15 p.m. - 7 p.m. Noted architects and educators--many from NJIT--will discuss their work as material evidence of emerging forms of contemporary design practice, the various technologies being used, and to what end they are being applied.
Website: Time.com
URL: http://time.com/3652762/suspect-terrorism-abu-anas-al-libi-new-york-libya/
Date: Jan. 3, 2015
Title: Suspected Plotter of U.S. Embassy Attacks Abu Anas Al-Libi Dies in New Yor
Article: A one-time associate of Osama Bin Laden died in New York on Friday while awaiting trial for allegedly plotting the 1998 bombings of U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. Abu Anas al-Libi, 50, was captured in Libya by U.S. commandos in Oct. 2013 and brought to New York where he was due to stand trial. He had been wanted for more than a decade and there was a $5 million reward for his arrest. Al-Libi had pleaded not guilty.
Cambridge Topic: The role of the individual in society - the family, marriage, peer pressure, class
Website: Time.com
URL: http://time.com/3067694/weheartit-teen-girls-bullying-instagram/
Date: Aug. 5, 2014
Title: Teen Girls Describe the Harsh Unspoken Rules of Online Popularity
Article: Most teens live, at least in part, on social media, the virtual platforms that shape their real worlds–places where they joke, flirt and seek constant, elusive validation from their peers. Most of what goes on isn’t easily visible to adults, but a new survey reveals what teenage girls think of the darker, more anti-social side of this universe.
Cambridge Topic: Cultural changes - youth and drug culture
Website: Go.galegroup.com
URL: http://go.galegroup.com/ps/retrieve.do?sgHitCount&sort=DA-SORT&inPS=true&prodId=STND&userGroupName=fl_sarhs&tabID=T004&searchId=R1&resultList&contentSegment=&search¤tPosition=3&contentSet=GALE%7CA392897793&&docId=GALE|A392897793&doc&role=
Date: Dec. 9, 2014
Title: Residents Gather to Learn About Alcohol, Drug Trends.
Article: Community members gathered at the Moses Lake Civic Auditorium Thursday to hear Idaho law enforcement officer Jermaine Galloway's presentation on current alcohol and drugs trends. The presentation was hosted by the Moses Lake Community Prevention Coalition and Grant County Prevention and Recovery Center. From the current drug culture, to MDMA (Ecstasy), binge drinking, prescription cough syrup abuse, "dabbing" (getting high off hash oils) and e-cigarette devices, Galloway presented new information about drug abuse.
Cambridge Topic: Education and welfare
Website: Go.galegroup.com
URL: http://go.galegroup.com/ps/retrieve.do?sgHitCount&sort=DA-SORT&inPS=true&prodId=STND&userGroupName=fl_sarhs&tabID=T004&searchId=R2&resultList&contentSegment=&search¤tPosition=2&contentSet=GALE%7CA395748779&&docId=GALE|A395748779&doc&role=
Date: Jan. 3, 2015
Title: Senate Obstruction Means Strange Education Policy
Article: The rapid build-up of student debt and the potential for greater default rates increasingly are mentioned as risk factors for government finances down the track. According to Andrew Norton of the Grattan Institute, the total value of student debt could double during the next four years to about $64 billion, while the proportion of debt that will not be repaid could increase markedly - by up to six percentage points.
Cambridge Topic: Sport, leisure, international competition
Website: Nationalgeographic.com
URL: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2014/05/140521-geography-bee-national-geographic-world-scholarship-students/?now=2014-05-21-00:01
Date: May 21, 2014
Title: Meet the 2014 NWational Geographic Bee Champion
Article: The annual event held at National Geographic's Washington, D.C., headquarters peppers students with questions about mountain peaks and obscure national borders, one at a time until only one remains. Rekulapelli bested more than four million students, who originally competed in school-level bees across the U.S.
Cambridge Topic: Wealth, changes in work practice
Website: Nationalgeaographic.com
URL: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2010/06/100616-energy-afghanistan-lithium/
Date: June 16, 2010
Title: Afghanistan's Lithium Wealth Could Remain Elusive
Article: Somewhere in the trackless lands that make up much of Afghanistan (map), just to the right or left of the Old Silk Road, there are apparently huge caches of untapped wealth in the form of metal and stone prized in both the ancient world and the modern: gold, copper, and lapis lazuli, to name a few. In recent days, the U.S. military and geologists working with the Pentagon have pointed to the deposits, whose value has been estimated at about a trillion dollars, as an elixir that promises to drastically alter the troubled Afghanistan economy.
Cambridge Topic: The importance and impact of tourism on a country - implications for economy, employment, public transport, environmental concerns
Website: Npr.org
URL: http://www.npr.org/2014/12/19/371821079/tourism-industry-gears-up-for-cuban-travel-ban-to-be-lifted
Date: Dec. 19, 2014
Title: Tourism Industry Gears Up For Lifting of Cuban Travel Ban
Article: Congress must act to lift the ban outright. But in the meantime, the administration plans to relax travel restrictions by simplifying the licensing process. But even with looser legal restrictions, in the short term, more pragmatic concerns will remain. For example, no U.S. carriers fly there, so direct travel requires a chartered plane. Health care must be arranged since Cuba's system doesn't accept U.S. insurance. And U.S. citizens traveling in Cuba haven't been allowed to use credit cards or ATMs.
Cambridge Topic: The provision and politics of aid
Website: Npr.org
URL: http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2015/01/01/374194902/ebola-aid-workers-still-avoiding-new-york-and-new-jersey
Date: Jan. 1, 2015
Title: Ebola Aid Workers Still Avoiding New York and New Jersey
Article: Here's how state officials in New Jersey and New York explain the rules today: A health care worker who treated Ebola patients can serve her mandatory quarantine at home in New Jersey or in New York. If you don't live in those two states — and you have no symptoms that suggest you might have Ebola — you will be allowed to pass through the airport, and return to wherever you live.
Cambridge Topic: The state and its institutions; development of state, democracy, post-imperialism, nationalism
Website: Sciencedaily.com
URL: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/07/140724134029.htm
Date: July 24, 2014
Title: Election Surprises Tend to Erode Trust in Government
Article: When asked who is going to win an election, people tend to predict their own candidate will come out on top. When that doesn't happen, according to a new study, these 'surprised losers' often have less trust in government and democracy.
Cambridge Topic: Minority groups, pressure groups
Website: Sciencedaily.com
URL: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/03/140303154100.htm
Date: March 3, 2014
Title: Race Relations Affected by Where You Live
Article: People's racial prejudices are influenced by where they live, reports a new study by psychologists. The researchers found that levels of racial prejudice among white people drop significantly when they live in ethnically mixed communities, even when they do not have direct contact with minorities. Simply seeing white strangers interacting positively with ethnic minorities is enough to reduce racial prejudice.
Cambridge Topic: Freedom of speech, action, thought
Website: Smithsonianmag.com
URL: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/your-facebook-likes-are-an-expression-of-free-speech-10312514/
Date: Sept. 20, 2013
Title: Your Facebook Likes Are An Expression of Free Speech
Article: The case that lead to the ruling, says the Atlantic, “has been watched closely, and for good reason. It’s obvious that First Amendment freedoms extend to the Internet. It’s more obvious still that the expressions and discussions that happen to be mediated through fiber-optic cables are precisely the kind of thing Mr. Madison and his merry band of misfits envisioned when they went out of their way to write the Bill of Rights as extensively as they did.”
Cambridge Topic: Judiciary
Website: Smithsonianmag.com
URL: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/deep-look-politicians-passed-civil-rights-act-1964-180951799/
Date: June 20, 2014
Title: A Deeper Look At The Politicians Who Passed The Civil Rights Act of 1964
Article: Congress had considered, and failed to pass, a civil rights bill every year from 1945 to 1957. In 1957, Congress finally managed to pass a limited Civil Rights Act, which it added to in 1960, but these bills offered black Americans only modest gains. It wasn't until 1963, in a televised speech, that President Kennedy called for a robust Civil Rights Act. Kennedy began his address by talking about the two black students who had recently enrolled in the University of Alabama, but needed the presence of Alabama National Guardsmen in order to safely attend classes.
Cambridge Topic: Matters of conscience, faith, tolerance, equality, opportunity
Website: Theguardian.com
URL: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/dec/28/religious-tolerance-unstable-world
Date: Dec. 28, 2014
Title: Religious Tolerance in an Unstable World
Article: The persecution of Christians around the world in the name of religion is a reflection of the poor state of religious freedom in too many countries (Editorial, 26 December). A report this year showed that 60% of the world’s countries were experiencing a serious decline in religious freedom, where minorities endure violence and discrimination. The way of judging any civilisation is how it treats its minorities. We should heed the great political philosopher Karl Popper, who advocated “in the name of tolerance, the right not to tolerate the intolerant”. Popper explained: “We should claim that any movement preaching intolerance places itself outside the law, and we should consider incitement to intolerance and persecution as criminal, in the same way as we should consider incitement to murder, or to kidnapping, or to the revival of the slave trade, as criminal.”
Cambridge Topic: Corruption
Website: Theguardian.com
URL: http://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2011/dec/01/corruption-index-2011-transparency-international
Date: Dec. 1, 2011
Title: Corruption Index 2011 From Transparency International: Find Out How Countries Compare
Article: The CPI scores countries on a scale of zero to 10, with zero indicating high levels of corruption and 10, low levels. And the most corrupt places in the world are not the most surprising. Unstable governments, often with a legacy of conflict, continue to dominate the bottom rungs of the CPI. Afghanistan and Myanmar share second to last place with a score of 1.5, with Somalia and North Korea - measured for the first time - coming in last with a score of 1.
Cambridge Topic: Medical dilemmas and issues of research and ethics; concept of progress in science
Website: Propublica.org
URL: http://www.propublica.org/article/why-patients-dont-report-medical-errors
Date: Sept. 25, 2012
Title: Why Patients Don't Report Medical Errors
Article: I was recently browsing through the nearly 200 stories we’ve compiled with our Patient Harm Questionnaire, when I was reminded again of a troubling truth. Many of the people who suffer harm while undergoing medical care do not file formal complaints with regulators. The reasons are numerous: They’re often traumatized, disabled, unaware they’ve been a victim of a medical error or don’t understand the bureaucracy. That’s a problem for those individual patients and for the rest of us. There are many places to complain: a state licensing agency; a professional licensing board that monitors doctors or nurses; the Joint Commission, which accredits hospitals or a Medicare Quality Improvement Organization. But if there are no complaints, there are no independent investigations, and that means no outside accountability for providers who may have made mistakes, and no public inspection reports that documents the case -- assuming an agency makes reports public, which is not always the case. It’s a collective problem because patient safety flaws that remain hidden, if they are not corrected, may be repeated.
Cambridge Topic: Drug Manufacture and provision
Website: Propublica.org
URL: http://www.propublica.org/article/no-substitute-when-a-generic-drug-isnt-what-it-seems
Date: April 15, 2013
Title: No Substitute: When a Generic Drug Isn't What It Seems
Article: Andrew Richards remembers that he had just sat down in front of the TV when the lightning bolt struck. "It was almost like it went through my ear because I could hear it. It was kind of like, 'fwomp,' right through my head," he says. Stunned and disoriented, Richards tried to get up, he says, but spasms rumbled through his torso and his back; his muscles kept clenching and relaxing. He doesn't recall falling. "It was almost like a little piece of time was missing, almost like a record skipped ahead a little bit," he says, "like I was sitting on my couch and time had moved forward and I was on the floor." The next thing Richards remembers was calling out to his wife, who scooped him up and drove him to the emergency room. He would soon discover that the lightning bolt that struck him down was an electrical storm taking place entirely in his brain: a seizure. Less than a year later he was in court, contending that his seizure -- and the spasms that he says still plague him -- were caused by a faulty generic medication.
Cambridge Topic: Diet, health education
Website: CNN.com
URL: http://www.cnn.com/2015/01/02/opinion/gupta-health-challenges-2015/index.html
Date: Jan. 3, 2015
Title: America's Nine Biggest Health Issues
Article: Hospital errors and infections. Hospital mistakes and infections are still one of the leading causes of preventable death (indeed, some studies suggest"hospital-acquired conditions" kill more people than car accidents or diabetes).
Cambridge Topic: Old and new industries
Website: CNN.com
URL: http://www.cnn.com/2014/12/22/tech/south-africa-space-ska/index.html#em0
Date: Dec. 24, 2014
Title: South Africa's Race to Space: Could Studying Big Bang Bring Big Bucks?
Article: It's here, in South Africa's Karoo desert, that construction is scheduled to begin on the Square Kilometer Array, a cluster of 3,000 satellites working in tandem over a square kilometer area. This highly sensitive collective of dishes and antennas will combine to act as a giant radio telescope -- the biggest in the world when built, according to the SKA Organization -- probing the dark heart of space.
Cambridge Topic: Spin offs from space industry; weaponry
Website: Yahoo.com
URL: http://www.futurefirepower.com/small-diameter-bomb-gbu-39
Date: Feb. 13, 2009
Title: Small Diameter Bomb - GBU-39
Article: Since the days of the first Gulf War, when it became clear to the world that precision air strikes would be the “go to” option for the opening rounds of nearly any theater scale military operations, the technology of precision guided munitions has increased rapidly. We have witnessed bombs being guided into their targets by lasers, GPS, and even a human watching through a camera on the nose of the weapon. Once the concept of precision guidance was no longer a novelty, the virtuous auspices of limiting collateral damage and economic efficiency have led military planners and weapons designers to push the envelope of precision weapon technology even further.
Cambridge Topic: Information and communications technology; the internet
Website: Yahoo.com
URL: http://www2.uncp.edu/home/acurtis/NewMedia/NewMediaCommunicationTechnologies.html
Date: Not stated
Title: New Media of Mass Communication
Article: Here are some contemporary New Media communication technologies that are a mix of mass communication and interpersonal communication. Virtual Reality Worlds: A virtual world is simulated by a computer, displayed as a three-dimensional environment on the computer's monitor screen, and intended for its users to inhabit and interact via graphical avatar representations of themselves. The best known 3-D virtual-reality environment is Second Life created by the San Francisco company Linden Lab. SL's more than 15 million residents create avatars representing themselves, build and create objects and clothing, and interact with each other in the setting of a user-created virtual world complete with its own economy in which they may own land. SL is not a game. It has no game rules, no scoring, no winners, no losers. Instead, it is a social networking environment widely used for recreation, commerce and education.
Cambridge Topic: Environmental concerns; renewable energy resources; climate change
Website: Theartnewspaper.com
URL: http://www.theartnewspaper.com/articles/Storm-brewing-over-historic-Miami-homes/36512
Date: Dec. 6, 2014
Title: Storm Brewing Over Historic Miami Homes
Article: Bigger is not always better, say those seeking to preserve Miami Beach’s historic single-family homes, which are being bulldozed to make room for new super-sized mansions. This year has seen a 30% rise in the number of petitions to demolish homes built before 1942—the cut-off year used by the City of Miami Beach to designate historic significance. The recent razing of a 1920s Mediterranean Revival home on ultra-exclusive Star Island following a lengthy battle between preservationists and a high-profile Miami Beach couple has led campaigners to call for a change in the regulations to protect these historic properties and curb the proliferation of “McMansions”.
Cambridge Topic: Migration; population dynamics
Website: Theartnewspaper.com
URL: http://www.theartnewspaper.com/articles/A%20better%20Prospect%20for%20African-American%20artists/35776
Date: Oct. 21, 2014
Title: A Better Prospect For African American Artists
Article: Prospect 3, which opens in New Orleans, Louisiana, this month, is the most racially diverse US biennial in recent history. The exhibition features work by more African-American artists than the most recent Carnegie International, Whitney, Hammer Museum and Site Santa Fe biennials combined. Of Prospect’s 58 participating artists and collectives, 22 are African-American. Forty-four—around 76%—are artists of colour.
Cambridge Topic: Feeding the global population; farming techniques for the twenty-first century
Website: LAtimes.com
URL: http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/tv/la-et-st-tv-cooking-shows-20141127-story.html#page=1
Date: Nov. 27, 2014
Title: Holiday TV Programming Is a Feast For Adventurous Foodies
Article: "We hope you'll never look at your dinner plate the same way again," said Pam Caragol Wells, executive producer, National Geographic Studios, "and that you'll get some insight into the role that food plays in our lives and culture." The show dovetails with an eight-month series of in-depth articles from National Geographic magazine on feeding the world's fast-growing population and other global food topics.
Cambridge Topic: Public transport and travel
Website: LAtimes.com
URL: http://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-bullet-construction-start-20150105-story.html#page=1
Date: Jan. 4, 2015
Title: After Two-Year Delay, Construction on California's Bullet Train is Set to Start
Article: CAlifornia's bullet-train agency will officially start construction in Fresno this week on the first 29-mile segment of the system, a symbol of the significant progress the $68-billion project has made against persistent political and legal opposition. Over the last two years, the California High-Speed Rail Authority has prevailed in a series of court challenges to the project, won a federal exemption from state environmental rules, secured several key legislative victories that improved its future funding and made a politically savvy bet to move up by several years the inauguration of service in Southern California. But the milestone marked by Tuesday's groundbreaking ceremony also will serve as a reminder of the enormous financial, technical and political risks still faced by the Los Angeles-to-San Francisco project.
Cambridge Topic: The uses and applications of mathematics in everyday life
Website: WSJ.com
URL: http://blogs.wsj.com/experts/2014/12/09/make-this-calculation-an-annual-event/?KEYWORDS=mathematics
Date: Dec. 9, 2014
Title: Make This Calculation an Annual Event
Article: Once a year, attempt to calculate your investment return and compare it to the markets. This is especially important for people who are trying to beat the market with individual stock and mutual-fund picks. Most will find that they have been outperformed by the markets once again.
Cambridge Topic: Literature, biography, diary, science fiction
Website: WSJ.com
URL: http://www.wsj.com/articles/childrens-literature-for-the-ages-1418414536?KEYWORDS=literature
Date: Dec. 12, 2014
Title: Children's Literature For The Ages
Article: Children’s stories weren’t always warm and cozy. Four hundred years ago, children’s books were meant to edify, not entertain. A new exhibit called “One Hundred Books Famous in Children’s Literature,” at the Grolier Club in New York through Feb. 7, showcases—along with an accompanying book—how children’s literature has evolved from pious instruction to character-driven stories. It took curator Chris Loker, an antiquarian children’s bookshop owner in San Francisco, over two years to choose the exhibit’s selection of the 100 most influential children’s books, starting with the Latin schoolbook “Orbis Pictus” in 1658 and ending with the first Harry Potter novel in 1997. Over time, the books evolved to be more lighthearted and fantastic. “It became acceptable and important to teach children not only what they had to learn, but things that helped them in their lives as human beings,” says Ms. Loker.
Cambridge Topic: Language - heritage, tradition, dialect
Website: Foxnews.com
URL: http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/lifestyle/2015/01/04/pope-francis-reflects-on-church-diversity-with-new-cardinals/
Date: Jan 4, 2014
Title: Pope Francis Reflects on Church's Diversity With New Cardinals
Article: With his picks, the Argentine-born Francis, the first pontiff from Latin America, made ever clearer that he is laying out a new vision of the church's identity, including of its hierarchy. He looked beyond traditional metropolitan area for the "princes of the church" who will help advise him and elect his successor.
Cambridge Topic: The global media - TV, radio, satellite; influence and controls; effects on lifestyle, culture and habits; cultural dilution and diversification; advertising; role models
Website: Foxnews.com
URL: http://www.foxbusiness.com/investing/2015/01/03/directv-just-went-over-top-cable-companies/
Date: Jan. 3, 2015
Title: DIRECTV Just Went Over The Top of Cable Companies
Article: The Internet-delivered television revolution is fast approaching, with multiple companies planning to launch over-the-top services in 2015. DIRECTV beat them all to the punch a couple weeks ago, though, when it launched Yaveo. The only catch is that it's a Spanish-language service. While DIRECTV's new service is targeted at a specific audience,it's still a threat to cable companies likeComcast(NASDAQ: CMCSA)andTime Warner Cable(NYSE: TWC). Offering Yaveo for $7.99 per month, DIRECTV is essentially unbundling the premium Spanish-language packages provided by cable companies for about $10 a month on top of their regular cable bundle price.
Cambridge Topic: Censorship; privacy; the right to know; freedom of the press, etc. Uses and abuses
Website: NYtimes.com
URL: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/05/sunday-review/we-want-privacy-but-cant-stop-sharing.html?module=Search&mabReward=relbias%3Ar%2C%7B%222%22%3A%22RI%3A18%22%7D&_r=0
Date: Oct. 4, 2014
Title: We Want Privacy, But Can't Stop Sharing
Article: You need only read George Orwell’s“1984” or watch the film “Minority Report” to understand how surveillance is incompatible with a free society. And increasingly, people are coming to understand how their online data might be used against them. You might not get a job, a loan or a date because of an indiscreet tweet or if your address on Google Street View shows your brother-in-law’s clunker in the driveway. But less obvious is the psychic toll of the current data free-for-all.
Cambridge Topic: Traditional arts and crafts; creativity; national heritage/preservation; effects of tourism
Website: NYtimes.com
URL: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/26/arts/design/26ruin.html?module=Search&mabReward=relbias%3As%2C%7B%222%22%3A%22RI%3A18%22%7D
Date: July 26, 2008
Title: Saving Pompeii From the Ravages of Time and Tourists
Article: Citing threats to public security and to the site itself, the Italian government has for the first time declared a yearlong state of emergency for the ancient city of Pompeii. Frescoes in the ancient Roman city, one of Italy’s most popular attractions, fade under the blistering sun or are chipped at by souvenir hunters. Mosaics endure the brunt of tens of thousands of shuffling thongs and sneakers.
Cambridge Topic: Architecture; painting; fashion; photography; sculpture; music; heritage
Website: Eurekalert.org
URL: http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2009-10/njio-hti102309.php
Date: Oct. 23, 2009
Title: How Technology is Changing the Practice of Architecture Will Be Forum Subject
Article: NJIT's College of Architecture and Design (COAD) will host a public forum on the changing status of technology in architectural practice and the emerging potential for the role of architecture in the design of the built environment. The NJ Chapter of the American Institute of Architects will sponsor the free event, open to the public, set for Oct. 28, 2009, 1:15 p.m. - 7 p.m. Noted architects and educators--many from NJIT--will discuss their work as material evidence of emerging forms of contemporary design practice, the various technologies being used, and to what end they are being applied.