This page features brief excerpts of stories published by the mainstream
media and, less frequently, blogs, alternative media, and even obviously
biased sources. The excerpts are taken directly from the websites cited in
each source note. Quotation marks are not used.
Source: Time
August 13, 2014
Oxford's editors have welcomed a new batch of words to their database, validating young people and making life less confusing for old people.
Source: Jeff Gusky Website
August 14, 2014 (accessed)
Hidden beneath the French countryside are miles of mysterious and all but forgotten underground cities, lying in complete darkness and frozen in time.
Source: AP
August 10, 2014
"Recent Supreme Court decisions have sent women's rights back to the Stone Age."
Source: The Daily Mail
August 9, 2014
Member of the European Parliament sparks anger as he tells its youth wing to copy Nazi leader.
Source: PBS
August 6, 2014
The Open University in the United Kingdom hired a photo restoration specialist to restore and color a handful of images.
Source: The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus
August 11, 2014
This is the first time that all three ingredients have been discovered on ex-Pentagon property on Okinawa.
Source: The Daily Beast
August 12, 2014
"It is extremely shocking that this name has slipped under the radar in the 70 years that have passed since France was liberated from Nazism and the (pro-Nazi) Vichy regime."
Source: NYT
August 10, 2014
It will be called, "The General."
Source: Yahoo
August 9, 2014
She said Gandhi's "habit of sleeping naked with young women" in order to test his commitment to a life of celibacy had been overlooked in the years since his death in 1948, but can no longer be ignored.
Source: Worldcrunch
August 7, 2014
A century ago, those reporting on wars were little more than military puppets. Since Vietnam, journalism is freer and more complicated. Now social media is changing the equation again.
Source: Press Release -- Northeastern University
July 31, 2014
The team of network scientists used the birth and death locations of more than 150,000 intellectuals to map their mobility patterns in order to identify the major cultural centers on the two continents over two millennia.
Source: Press Release -- The David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies
August 11, 2014
The statement was organized by The David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies, based in Washington, D.C.
Source: NYT
August 10, 2014
"We are in full agreement that there is no support from the field of population genetics for Wade’s conjectures."
Source: The Wire
August 9, 2014
Which of these two statements comes closest to your own point of view about Watergate — it was a very serious matter because it revealed corruption in the Nixon administration or it was just politics — the kind of thing that both parties engage in?
Source: NBC News
August 6, 2014
He's got the same name as ever, but now he's on social media.
Source: Thewire.com
August 9, 2014
Hinkley in theory could charged with homicide.
Source: thewire.com
August 9, 2014
Most of the world's Yazidis live in Iraq.
Source: Bloomberg
August 6, 2014
Born in one American war, the Army’s newest general is helping end another.
Source: The Boston Globe
August 6, 2014
Eroni Kumana found Lieutenant Kennedy and his crew six days after the wreck of PT-109.
Source: NYT
August 6, 2014
The NYT reviews three apps that will help you brush up on past events ranging from the Roman era to World War I.
