Month: April 2015
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#NASA Creates Open Database of Space Station Research
from al.com: NASA is opening its files on research conducted aboard the International Space Station. The space agency hopes the crowdsourcing will stimulate new research on the orbiting laboratory. The information database is called Physical Science Informatics and was created by specialists at the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala. All search results at…
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#FastFoodNation Workers Plan #April15 Strike
from time.com: U.S. fast food workers are planning a major one-day strike on Tax Day, April 15, their latest action in a two-year campaign for a $15 hourly wage and the right to unionize.Workers will walk off the job at fast food restaurants in more than 200 cities across the U.S. to demand higher pay,…
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#SaudiArabia’s Ominous Reach Into #Yemen
from nytimes.com: The Saudi-led military intervention in Yemen threatens to turn what has been a civil war between competing branches of Islam into a wider regional struggle involving Iran. It could also destroy any hope of stability in Yemen. Even before the Saudis and their Arab allies started the bombing, Yemen was in severe distress;…