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Home values reveal sharp wealth divide

It’s still possible in Boston for a mail carrier, an accountant, and a Harvard-trained psychiatrist — basically, the crowd from Cheers — to live as neighbors. Boston is one of nation’s rare cities where wealthy, middle class mingle.

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Toledo Blade

Bangladesh executes 2 opposition leaders for war crimes

Bangladesh executed two opposition leaders for war crimes during the country’s 1971 independence war, despite concerns that the legal proceedings against them were flawed and threats of violence by their supporters.

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U.S. News & World Report

A depressed Egypt heads to the polls

In stark contrast to the turmoil and heated political contests of years past, Egypt launched a second round of legislative elections in an atmosphere of repression and apathy.

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TIME

Is zero waste attainable in commercial properties?

Imagine a building that leaves no material unused and extracts the deepest value from all its parts. That same building can also wow tenants, investors and the public alike with its sustainability and business savvy.

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Zero waste: An attainable goal?

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Waste Dive

Anika Goss-Foster to head Detroit Future City office

Veteran Detroit nonprofit leader Anika Goss-Foster has been named the new director of the Detroit Future City Office. Detroit’s vacant and abandoned land could be converted to farms, forests, and other landscapes.

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Detroit Free Press

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How to profit from listless energy stocks

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Barron’s

PHILANTHROPY AND AID

Seattle-area Muslims aid homeless with Day of Dignity

The Muslim community held its annual Day of Dignity for Seattle-area homeless, a charitable event that participants say shows the true nature of the Islamic religion.

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Cutting aid in order to support refugees will allow extremism to thrive

News that Sweden and Norway are considering cuts to their international aid budgets in order to use the money to support refugees is of concern to advocates of democracy and human rights around the world.

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Guardian

HUMAN RIGHTS

Former student to launch human-rights complaint against UBC

A former University of British Columbia graduate student plans to go to the province’s human rights tribunal over what she calls the school’s broken and dysfunctional system for cases of sexual assault and harassment.

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The Star

Ban arms sales to countries with poor human rights records

The Liberal Democrats have called for a tighter arms control regime that would ban sales to countries listed as a concern by the Foreign Office due to their human rights record.

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Guardian

GOVERNANCE AND POLITICS

End-of-era Argentina votes on economy, political shift

Argentines voted in an unprecedented presidential runoff that could end 12 years of leftist government.

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Yahoo! News

Politics and what remains of the English language

Here is a list of a few trendy words, overused, politicized, and empty of meaning, that now plague popular communications.

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PJ Media

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

First electronic plants developed

Professor Magnus Berggren of the Laboratory of Organic Electronics at Linköping University in Sweden along with others are the first to successfully incorporate electronic polymers in living plants.

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Examiner

Titan’s massive ice cloud suggests five more years of winter, at least

The current weather on Titan’s moon indicates how long its southern winter will be. Which, as it turns out, will be pretty long and really cold.

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Christian Science Monitor

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Gigantic ice cloud spotted on Saturn moon Titan

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Scientific American

DEVELOPMENT AND TRADE

Ford union workers ratify new four-year U.S. labor pact: UAW

Ford Motor Co’s U.S. union workers narrowly approved a four-year labor contract after a late push for support by United Auto Workers leaders, the UAW said late Friday night.

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Reuters

Trans-Pacific Partnership could bring trade stability

Since 2010, the U.S. has exported more than $165 billion worth of staple U.S. agricultural products to 11 countries now part of a controversial pending trade deal known as the Trans-Pacific Partnership.

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Des Moines Register

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GOOD NEWS

Premature baby born on cruise ship arrives home in Utah

A baby who has spent the past two months in a Miami hospital after his premature birth on a cruise ship reached his final destination in Utah.

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District of Columbia pays $16.7 million over false imprisonment

The District of Columbia agreed on Thursday to pay $16.65 million to a man who spent 27 years in prison for a rape and murder he did not commit, the city’s attorney general said.

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Yahoo! News

NGOs AND NONPROFITS

Kenya in showdown with NGOs at the Hague

Western countries teamed up with powerful global NGO to oppose Kenya’s push to withdraw the use of recanted testimony against Deputy President William Ruto.

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Nonprofits see uptick in volunteerism

The holiday spirit can move people to more than just gift giving, Christmas carols and big family dinners. For several nonprofits, it brings more volunteers in the door every year.

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StarNews Online

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Volunteerism: Give more than thanks

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The Witcitan

ENVIRONMENT

Half of tree species in the Amazon at risk of extinction, say scientists

If deforestation continues at current rate, 57% of the 15,000 tree species will be in danger, including Brazil nut, cacao and açai.

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Guardian

Drip irrigation improves production, water efficiency

An assortment of red metal and green plastic tanks produces an irrigation, not as familiar as the typical ditch and sprinkler systems enhancing crop production in the North Platte River Valley over the past 100 years.

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Scottsbluff Star Herald

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Nuns spread the Gospel with onions, tomatoes convent

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