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JANUARY 9, 2016
SIETSEMA RECOMMENDS: QUEEN OF FALAFEL
[Chickp...
A year after pledging $300 million
[http://www.theverge.com/2015/1/6/7505929/intel-investing-300-million-to-fix-diversity-ces-2015]
toward diversity initiatives, Intel is laun...
The last time I took 2 weeks off was probably 20 years ago. As I write
that down, it makes me sad. I’ve been been running pretty hard for a
long time. Even when I had some f...
Americans now spend more than $70 billion dollars annually on
lotteries. That’s more than the combined spending on books, video
games, and movie and sporting-event tickets. ...
More stories from the week that ended Jan 3 (click on bolded words for
more information): NJIDEKA AKUNYILI CROSBY
[http://whitney.org/Exhibitions/NjidekaAkunyiliCrosby] billbo...
This is the second part of my previous blog post, Looking Back on the
Year
[http://www.themilelongbookshelf.com/2015/12/looking-back-on-2015-part-one.html].
Hope you enjoy!
...
America’s mass incarceration problem is often described as a crisis,
something that may actually have caused more crime
[http://qz.com/458675/in-america-mass-incarceration-h...
MEXICO CITY (AP) — The Texas teenager known for using an "affluenza"
defense in a fatal drunken-driving accident likely won't return to the
U.S. anytime soon because of a Me...
Frank Sinatra shines in a story of police corruption that tries to
say it like it is -- or like it was in 1968, just before the ratings
system came in. The well-intentioned...
A lot happened in gaming in 2015. More than you might remember. It was
a year for long-awaited sequels, franchise resurrections, publisher
scandals, and a goofy Time magazine ...
Well, that year flew by, didn't it? Before we look back on 2015, I
just want to mention some things that happened right at the very end
of 2014 after I had posted my wrap-up: ...
Author(s):
Francis Lewis
What’s new on NYC’s rialto during the first month of the new year?
A trouper is a trouper is a trouper. Gregory Hines clearly
demonstrates t...
