Top authors — including Maya Angelou — urge Obama to curb standardized testing

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The UC Davis Pepper-Spraying Cop Gets a $38,000 Settlement – Abby Ohlheiser – The Atlantic Wire

WTF?!

America’s Mood Map: Find Which State Matches Your Personality | TIME.com

hmmm

Why French Kids Don’t Have ADHD | Psychology Today

huh

Israeli airstrikes follow rockets from Gaza – latimes.com

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Snowden leaves Hong Kong ‘on his own accord’, arrives in Moscow with WikiLeaks help | South China Morning Post

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Plane for Cuba leaves Russia, Snowden not on board – Indian Express

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Supreme Court holds off on major affirmative action decision – CBS News

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Egypt’s army delivers an ominous warning – CBS News

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As WikiLeaks Takes on the Roles of a State, America Must Treat It as One – The Daily Beast

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WikiLeaks: Snowden going to Ecuador to seek asylum – Yahoo News

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Obama following ‘legal channels’ to get Snowden back

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Leaker’s Flight Raises Tension Between U.S. and 3 Nations – NYTimes.com

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WikiLeaks: We Know Where Snowden Is, But We’re Not Telling You | Mother Jones

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Snowden mystery deepens, took job to gather NSA evidence

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First on CNN: More on NSA surveillance programs to be declassified – CNN Security Clearance – CNN.com Blogs

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Cemetery denies SpongeBob monuments for slain Army sergeant – CNN.com

weird

New Prosecutor to Look at Mo. Sex Assault Case – ABC News

hmmm

U.S. intercepts French phone calls on a ‘massive scale’ – CNN.com

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Paula Deen: The South gets over-simplified, says chef Edward Lee – latimes.com

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Jon Stewart encourages Egyptian counterpart: ‘If your regime is not strong enough to handle a joke, then you don’t have a regime’ | The Raw Story

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Anger mounts after Facebook’s ‘shadow profiles’ leak in bug | ZDNet

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Mexico lashes out against report of U.S. spying – CNN.com

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Our Feel-Good War on Breast Cancer – NYTimes.com

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Who Is The Smallest Government Spender Since Eisenhower? Would You Believe It’s Barack Obama? – Forbes

yawn.