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RollCall.com - The Emerging Diversity Generation

RollCall.com - The Emerging Diversity Generation

RollCall.com — Most American children under age 7 are members of a minority group, making them the leading edge of a diversity generation in which whites are a minority, according to Census data.
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Maker of Costly Drug Spent Heavily on Hospitality for Doctors

Maker of Costly Drug Spent Heavily on Hospitality for Doctors

Roll Call — Gilead Sciences Inc., the maker of the costly Sovaldi hepatitis C pill that has attracted congressional scrutiny, bought doctors about $3.6 million worth of food and drink last year, according to a CQ Roll Call analysis.
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Keystone Pipeline Approval Could Shift Dynamics of Crude Export Debate

Keystone Pipeline Approval Could Shift Dynamics of Crude Export Debate

Roll Call — The debate over lifting the nation s restrictions on exporting crude oil centers on refinery capacity and the types of available crude, complexities that could shift if the Keystone XL pipeline is approved.
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Congress Looks to Ease Fee Increases for National Forest Cabin Owners

Congress Looks to Ease Fee Increases for National Forest Cabin Owners

Roll Call — Wading into a dispute over federal land use that dates back to the days of homesteaders and miners, Congress is looking to overhaul the process of assessing fees for private vacation cabins and houses on national forest land.
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Bribery Accusations Reach a Village's Main Street

Bribery Accusations Reach a Village's Main Street

New York Times — Officials in a New York village were caught up in an F.B.I. sting that also ensnared State Senator Malcolm A. Smith and New York City Councilman Daniel J. Halloran III.
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International Center, a School for Immigrants, Faces Closure

International Center, a School for Immigrants, Faces Closure

New York Times — The center shocked its volunteers last month with the news that it was behind on its rent and would have to close its doors on West 23rd Street, where it has been for about 20 years.
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Rikers Island Security Chief Is Charged With Ordering Brutal Assault on Inmate

Rikers Island Security Chief Is Charged With Ordering Brutal Assault on Inmate

New York Times — Assistant chief for security, Eliseo Perez Jr., locked eyes with an inmate. "This guy thinks he's tough," Chief Perez said, according to prosecutors in the Bronx. And then he ordered his subordinates to kick the inmate's teeth in, the authorities said.
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Plasma Gasification Raises Hopes of Clean Energy From Garbage

Plasma Gasification Raises Hopes of Clean Energy From Garbage

New York Times — An innovative technique is touted as a way to dispose of garbage without harmful byproducts of conventional incineration or the environmental impact of transporting and burying waste.
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Video of Police Encounter May Take Key Role in Civil Rights Suit

Video of Police Encounter May Take Key Role in Civil Rights Suit

New York Times — A lawsuit charges that police officers engaged in a "brutal and sadistic" beating, partially caught on video.
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Spotted (and Striped): The Runaway Zebra of Staten Island

Spotted (and Striped): The Runaway Zebra of Staten Island

New York Times — A zebra enjoys a jaunt on Staten Island.
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Nobody Goes to the Hospital for the View, but ...

Nobody Goes to the Hospital for the View, but ...

New York Times — A new mural brightens the view for hospital patients.
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At Barnard College, Reports of Cheating Prompt Changes

At Barnard College, Reports of Cheating Prompt Changes

New York Times — The Barnard College course called Major English Texts II was known by students as an easy A, a low-stress literature survey taught by a popular instructor. But on Wednesday, Major English Texts II became much more serious.
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Digging Through Mounds of Storm Debris, Seeking Recyclable Objects

Digging Through Mounds of Storm Debris, Seeking Recyclable Objects

New York Times — Some Hurricane Sandy debris was most likely destined for the international metal market, not the dump.
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With U.S. Natural Gas Booming, a Move to Send It Overseas

With U.S. Natural Gas Booming, a Move to Send It Overseas

National Geographic — Natural gas production in the United States is so robust that the industry is looking to export it aboard tankers such as this one to countries where it will command a higher price than it would at home.
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Army Corps wants $1 billion to repair flood damage | McClatchy

Army Corps wants $1 billion to repair flood damage | McClatchy

www.mcclatchydc.com — The Army Corps of Engineers says it desperately needs about $1 billion to repair the damage from this year's catastrophic flooding in the Missouri and Mississippi basins.
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How a Thermostat Built by Former Apple Guys Will Make Green Cool

How a Thermostat Built by Former Apple Guys Will Make Green Cool

The Atlantic — The Nest is just one in a line of new products that will help users cut energy use by offering more control and feedback than old devices It's called the low-hanging fruit of green energy: personal efficiency.
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Keystone pipeline crucial for jobs, say supporters

Keystone pipeline crucial for jobs, say supporters

MarketWatch — A controversial pipeline from Canada that the White House delayed last month would bring jobs and increase energy security in the United States, industry and union leaders said.
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First Spring Valley, N.Y., Meeting Since Officials' Arrests

First Spring Valley, N.Y., Meeting Since Officials' Arrests

New York Times — A trustee stormed out of the meeting a while after Mayor Noramie F. Jasmin and her deputy mayor, Joseph A. Desmaret, refused to resign.
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Body of 1 of 2 Missing Boys Recovered From New Jersey Lake

Body of 1 of 2 Missing Boys Recovered From New Jersey Lake

New York Times — Rescue workers in New Jersey on Tuesday recovered the body of one of two missing teenagers who apparently fell into a partly frozen lake on Monday night.
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Two Men Fatally Stabbed As Violence Again Follows West Indian Day Parade

Two Men Fatally Stabbed As Violence Again Follows West Indian Day Parade

New York Times — Police said two men had been fatally stabbed and at least two people had been wounded in gun violence after the parade.
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Senator Shirley Huntley Says She Will Be Arrested

Senator Shirley Huntley Says She Will Be Arrested

New York Times — Adding to the long list of Albany lawmakers accused of misusing their offices, the Democratic state senator from Queens said she expected to be arrested as part of an ongoing corruption investigation.
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Two Men Shot Near Yankee Stadium

Two Men Shot Near Yankee Stadium

New York Times — A sharply dressed vendor on a busy Bronx corner about a block from Yankee Stadium shot two men on Thursday afternoon, police said.
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Police Return to Cellar Tied to Patz Suspect

Police Return to Cellar Tied to Patz Suspect

New York Times — A police evidence unit brought out several large paper bags on Wednesday from the basement in SoHo where the man charged in the Etan Patz case says he killed the boy who disappeared in 1979.
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4-Year-Old Boy Fatally Shot in Bronx Playground

4-Year-Old Boy Fatally Shot in Bronx Playground

New York Times — The shooting scattered spectators of a basketball game at the Forest Houses on East 165th Street.
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