NPR’s Scott Simon says voters and candidates might benefit if more politicians took real vacations — if they went somewhere, for at least a short time, where no one knows them. Where they don’t have to ask for votes, money or spout talking points.
May 21, 2013
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Should we let wunderkinds drop out of high school?
May 21, 2013 By AP Leave a Comment
NEW YORK (AP) — Thomas Sohmers, 17, of Hudson, Mass., has been working at a research lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology since he was 13, developing projects ranging from augmented reality eyewear to laser communications systems. This spring, his mom, Penny Mills, let him drop out of 11th grade. She says she “could [...]
The Doors’ Keyboard Counterpoint Goes Silent: Remembering Ray Manzarek
May 21, 2013 By NPR Leave a Comment
Ray Manzarek, whose keyboard was a trademark of The Doors sound, died at the age of 74 on Monday. » E-Mail This » Add to Del.icio.us News
Crews dig through night after deadly Okla. twister
May 21, 2013 By AP Leave a Comment
MOORE, Okla. (AP) — Spotlights bore down on massive piles of shredded cinder block, insulation and metal as crews worked through the night early Tuesday lifting bricks and parts of collapsed walls where a monstrous tornado barreled through the Oklahoma City suburbs, demolishing an elementary school and reducing homes to piles of splintered wood. At [...]
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Black In America: A Story Rendered In Gray Scale
May 21, 2013 By NPR Leave a Comment