Editing The Climate Talkers: Punctuation's Effect On Earth's Fate

The littlest things — punctuation, precise word choice and grammar — can hold tremendous power in worldwide climate negotiations. This year in Europe, editors get a chance to help make history.
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Will new focus on rape kit tests put thousands behind bars?

The evidence piled up for years, abandoned in police property rooms, warehouses and crime labs. Now, tens of thousands of sexual assault kits are giving up their secrets — and rapists who've long remained free may finally face justice…
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Isis Kidnaps Another 500 Children to Use Them for 'Suicide Attacks'

The Islamic State (Isis) militants have kidnapped around 500 children from Iraq, who according to local security personnel fear will be used in 'suicide attacks' by the Sunni radical group. "Daesh [Arabic acronym for Isis] has kidnapped at least 400 children in the western province of Anbar and taken them to their bases in Iraq and Syria," a member of Anbar's Provincial Council, Farhan Mohammed told Anadolu Agency.
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Infected Monkeys

And Other Cautionary Tales From the Biolab
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Senate to let NSA spy program lapse, at least temporarily

The U.S. Senate advanced legislation on Sunday reforming a controversial program that collects Americans' telephone call records, but final passage appeared doubtful before the surveillance system expires at midnight.
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Robert Kaplan’s Right About Imperialism, Wrong About the Middle East

Imperialism can impose order. But that doesn't mean the U.S. should pursue empire in the Middle East.
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6,000 aboriginal children died in 'cultural genocide' in Canadian residential school system, officials say

Justice Murray Sinclair, Chair of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, who is responsible for studying the legacy of the residential schools, said the figure is an estimate and the true figure could be much higher. "We think that we have not uncovered anywhere near what the total would be because the record keeping around that question was very poor," Sin
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