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Weight, what? A new definition of a kilogram

Apparently, our species took a giant step forward on Friday and nobody realized it, at least until today when the Washington Post reported on the work of John Pratt, the chief of quantum measurement at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, which oversees weights and measures in the United States. He and his colleagues…
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NPR’s tweets expose a thin grasp of American history

NPR’s tweets expose a thin grasp of American history

Were those bomb-throwing leftists at NPR trying to undermine the nation and start a revolution? What could possibly explain this kind of talk on the 4th of July?
by Bob Collins

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1,000 Words: The new Americans

1,000 Words: The new Americans

Over 190 immigrants from 59 countries became American citizens at the fourth annual Independence Day naturalization ceremony hosted by the New York Public Library.
by Bob Collins

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Students repair civil rights memorial with handwriting

Students repair civil rights memorial with handwriting

'For me it was kind of like a moment of realizing that I didn’t have to just walk away,' student Camille Denton said when encountering a vandalized civil rights memorial. So she and her friends fought back.
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Poll shows distressing ignorance of U.S. democracy’s birth

Although he's given credit for the assertion, Thomas Jefferson never actually said 'an educated citizenry is a vital requisite for our survival as a free people.' Maybe he knew better. The country has now survived 241 years, most of them with a sizeable percentage of the population having no clue about the origins of the nation.
by Bob Collins

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In Pepin County, workers flee the dairy farms

Wisconsin Public Radio reported that farmers in western Wisconsin have been visited by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents and warned they'll be back, suggesting the possibility of sweeping raids that farmers say could weaken the local economy. Dairy workers around Durand, Wis., decided to leave after rumors swept the community that ICE was in town.
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Duluth has a lock on love

The Duluth News Tribune's John Lundy reports the Paris tradition of attaching a padlock as a symbol of love has made it to Duluth. Couples write their names on the lock and then attach it to three pillars on the Lakewalk in Canal Park.
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Merging on the highway is a good way to get yourself killed

Merging on the highway is a good way to get yourself killed

David Desper, of Pennsylvania, would have gotten to wherever he was going about 10 seconds later had he let Bianca Robinson merge as two highway lanes became one. Instead, he shot her in the head and will likely be right on time for prison.
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Dawson’s first Muslim feels like a stranger in a rural town

Ayaz Virji could be forgiven if he’d followed his instinct and moved his family out of Dawson, Minn. Virgji, the medical director of a local hospital, was upset that his community had voted for Donald Trump, spurred on by the candidate’s portrayal of Muslims as terrorists. Virji was the first Muslim to move to Dawson…
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How to get a master’s degree with a mop

How to get a master’s degree with a mop

Jesse Sparks, of Cambridge, Mass., could have done what a lot of college football players might do when the football program at their school was dropped: go somewhere else. But Sparks stayed at Northeastern University, which agreed to honor his scholarship even without a football program. He wanted an education.
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