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Welcome to First Look, our daily roundup of early-bird news: • An Alaska woman has been charged with child abuse for forcing her adopted son to eat hot sauce on national TV. (AP) • Many building in the small town of Mineral, Virginia are severely damaged and not covered by quake insurance. (New York Times) • The Washington
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Searching for a sign that the troubled housing market is starting to perk up? Keep looking. New home sales dropped in July to 298,000–a decline of 0.7 percent since June, the government said. The figure for June was revised down to 300,000. Analysts had been expecting July’s number to rise to 310,000. New home inventory
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Yesterday’s earthquake offered a reminder of something we really should have learned by now: You can’t take everything on the internet at face value. Not long after the quake, Tim Carney of the conservative Washington Examiner joked in a tweet that liberal New York Times political columnist Paul Krugman thought it hadn’t been big enough
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A small school district in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, is losing $2 million in state support this year after the state legislature made some of the largest education cuts in decades. But one school has come up with a creative way to take small bite out of that deficit. Tucked into a very informative article at Stateline about
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We wrote Tuesday about the emerging consensus that the economy will avoid a recession, but remain at a painfully low level of growth for years to come. Now you can add Congress’s non-partisan accounting arm to the list of those who agree. Citing “profound budgetary and economic challenges,” the Congressional Budget Office predicts in a
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The members of the generation that is sometimes dubbed the “millennials” are alternately reviled or lauded by the news media for their tech-savvy, gadget-loving ways. But a new ethnographic research project on students in five Illinois universities may put a dent in that reputation. It found that many college kids don’t even know how to
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Did the 2009 stimulus bill work? Critics of the Obama administration say no, pointing out that, two years later, the economy is still barely growing, and unemployment remains high. Supporters say without the stimulus, things would be even worse. The answer matters, because it’ll help determine the kind of approaches to job creation that gain
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In June, we asked you for your stories spelling out what it’s like to be out of work for an extended period. The thousands of anecdotes you sent us offer a heart-rending glimpse of how Americans are coping with long-term joblessness during the Great Recession and its aftermath. The responses The Lookout has collected from Yahoo readers
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The Washington Post’s Valerie Strauss reports that the Obama administration tried several times to meet with actor Matt Damon before he was scheduled to speak at a rally last month held to protest the federal focus on test scores. “[Education Secretary Arne] Duncan was willing to meet Damon at the airport when he flew into
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One of the world’s “most feared” pests was discovered on American soil. The Khapra beetle, in larva stage, was identified by customs officials last week in a 10-pound bag of rice that came from India. In a press release, Customs and Border Protection described the bug as “one of the world’s most tenacious and destructive
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