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Number Of Syrian Refugees Streaming Into Turkey Rises To 150,000
SURUC, Turkey (AP) — Refugees streaming into Turkey from Syria say their home city, once bustling with 400,000 citizens, has become a ghost town, emptied of all people but a few thousand fighters...
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Finding a Way Home: The Situation for Young Afghan Returnees
MSF Kabul Afghanistan: Young men from a camp in Kabul who helped to setup a temporary clinic for their people in Kabul. In light of NATO's Summit Declaration on Afghanistan in Wales earlier this...
View ArticleNational Domestic Violence Hotline Advocates Are the Unsung (and Underpaid)...
It's easy to dismiss the National Football League's (NFL) recent partnership with the National Domestic Violence Hotline (NDVH) as a shallow public relations attempt to repair damage done by the...
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Fort Lauderdale Targets Homeless Population, Outlaws Sleeping In Public And...
Casey Cooper believes he should be able to lay his head to rest in public. But the City of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, thinks otherwise. Cooper is one of the city's homeless that will be affected by a...
View ArticleColleges Finding New Ways To Promote Students' Social And Emotional Well-Being
This article originally appeared on U.S. News & World Report, and is republished with permission. The quad at Wake Forest University in North Carolina once existed to showcase the handsome brick...
View ArticleHow Universities Can Tackle Climate Change
This week's UN Climate Summit calls upon people and institutions around the world to consider how they can become active leaders in combating climate change. What is the role of our colleges and...
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5 Qualities That Make You (Yes, You) Perfectly Suited For A Career In IT
Whether you are hitting your quarter life crisis, midlife crisis, or no crisis at all, deciding what you should be doing with the rest of your life can be terrifying. But sometimes, the unknown can...
View ArticleMuslim Scholars Release Open Letter To Islamic State Meticulously Blasting...
WASHINGTON (RNS) More than 120 Muslim scholars from around the world joined an open letter to the “fighters and followers” of the Islamic State, denouncing them as un-Islamic by using the most Islamic...
View ArticleThreat to Independent Reporting in the U.S. Could Impact Global Standards
Joel Simon/CPJ Executive Director With journalists around the world being killed, kidnapped, and murdered in record numbers, why is the Committee to Protect Journalists launching a campaign targeting...
View ArticleVietnam Veteran Reconnects With The World Through Wild Animals In 'Wild Home'
Like many soldiers who return home from war, Vietnam veteran Bob Miner struggled reintegrating into the life he once knew. The only creatures he could find solace with were not human, so he created a...
View ArticleFormer Waitress Says She Donated Rush Limbaugh's Tips To Abortion Nonprofit
If hyper-conservative media personality and flagrant misogynist Rush Limbaugh gave you $4,000, what would you do with it? Writer and abortion activist Merritt Tierce had the perfect answer when this...
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Liquor Store Stops Selling Cheap Spirits To Curb Alcohol Abuse Among At-Risk...
One California city is trying to rein in alcohol abuse among its vulnerable populations, including homeless people, teens and addicts. Mayor Gary Phillips of San Rafael is using a local store to test...
View ArticleEbola -- A Fragile Health Care System's Ripple Effects
Four years ago I traveled over a deeply washed away and rutted dirt track to visit villages in the northern Liberian jungle, in what is now the epicenter of the Ebola outbreak. I focused on a network...
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This Is What A World Without Hunger Looks Like, According To Kids Whose...
Can you envision a world where everyone has adequate access to food? These kids can. The World Food Program's (WFP) "Zero Hunger: A World Without Hunger" contest inspired children across the globe to...
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The Role of Innovation + Disruption in Progress
Lots of entrepreneurs talk about disruption these days. Disrupting the music industry, disrupting education -- for anything there is, there is something to disrupt. Some things ought to be disrupted,...
View ArticleFormer President Jimmy Carter On Gay Rights: Jesus Christ Never Discriminated...
A packed college auditorium roared with applause when former President Jimmy Carter took a stand for gay rights. When asked about his views on human rights and the LGBT community, Carter schooled the...
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That Is the Poor Kids' Line
Mothers and children stand in a line, waiting their turn at the window to turn in their papers. The paperwork isn't for anything fun; it's not for anything they want to be a part of, but it's something...
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University Of Chicago Activists Post List Of Men Who Have Shown 'Troubling...
Students at the University of Chicago are circulating a list of men who have shown "troubling behavior towards romantic or sexual partners," according to the group behind the effort. The list was...
View ArticleHow Nigeria Plans To Protect Schoolgirls From Boko Haram
NEW YORK -- Schoolgirls in Nigeria are asking for measures as simple as electricity in schools to help protect them from kidnapping by Boko Haram, a Nigerian official said Wednesday. Five months after...
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Do Men Hate Women?
Do men hate women? It's a question I ask myself everyday. My friends say "June, men don't hate women, that's extreme!" But when a father rapes his daughter, when a husband kills his wife and when an...
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