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Undernews: April 15, 2014

Undernews: April 15, 2014

Since 1964, the news while there's still time to do something about it

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Federal judge rules Ohio gay marriage ban unconstitutional

Where to put bike lanes

TSA knew about Heartbleed problem for more than two years but hid it from US ...

Why Democrats don't get more votes

Where women stand in state politics

Time to restore childhood

Word: Charter schools

Obamacare: The good, the bad and the confusing

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Morning Line

There's no place like home: Early gentrification

Bookshelf: Young Money

The other attack on Social Security: major cuts in service

Word: Best "learning outcomes"

Legalizing marijuana may actually lead to less crime

Great moments in the Virginia GOP

Higher education, lower supply of food

70% of federal drug penalties reduced

School wreckers keep test problems secret

Are wealthy Californians buying a license to speed?

Power outages soar with climate change

If you visit a garden shop, the DEA may raid your house.

Trade workers unions and coops: the story so far

Sears is dying

People participating in the food stamp program outnumbered the women who worked full-time, year-round in the United States in 2012, according to data from the Department of Agriculture and the Census Bureau.

In the Mad Men era college tuition averaged $478, but a computer cost $4.6 million

LA evictions of rent controlled housing increasing

@Harpers - Boxes of cookies a Girl Scout sold in 2 hours this February outside a San Francisco marijuana dispensary: 117

States turning away more Medicaid will kill more people than guns

Fracking linked to Ohio earthquakes

Whatever happened to Tom Lehrer?

Bank of America to pay $800 million for duping customers

Drought in Brazil drives the price of coffee beans to a record high

Albuquerque police are reckless, use excessive force, Justice Dept. report says

How to start a workers co-op

What's happening to New Hampsire's moose?

America's most endangered rivers

News 4 U

Parental involvement in school work is overrated

Naps work

New treatment for hepititus C cured 90% of patients in 12 weeks

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Word: Death
The idea is to die young as late as possible - Ashley Montague

Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something. - - last words of Pancho Villa

If I shouldn't be alive
When the robins come,
Give the one in red cravat
A memorial crumb.

If I couldn't thank you,
Being just asleep,
You will know I 'm trying
With my granite lip! - Emily Dickinson

After the first death there is no other -- Dylan Thomas after an air raid.

Donations may be sent to the John Silber campaign or Humanitarian Aid to the Contras or play your favorite lottery number. -- Death notice in Boston Globe for former Cambridge City Councilmember Daniel J. Murphy, 1990

Many men die at twenty-five and aren't buried until they are seventy-five -- Benjamin Franklin

Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light. - Dylan Thomas

Sacred to the memory of my husband John Barnes who died January 3, 1803 His comely young widow, aged 23, has many qualifications of a good wife, and yearns to be comforted. - Vermont gravestone

No dark colors and no crying - Funeral instructions from New Orleans jazz musician Lionel Batiste

Pocket paradigms
The greatest power of the mass media is the power to ignore. The worst thing about this power is that you may not even know it's being used..- Sam Smith

Today in history
1935 - A windstorm moves from the Dakotas into the southern plains, lifting powdery soil into a 1,000-foot-high cloud — a blizzard of black dust an muddy rain hundreds of miles wide. This year the winds rook an estiamted 850 million tons of topsoil and within fiveyears, the Dust Bowl states had lost one third of their population.

1930 -- Police arrest over 100 Chicano farm workers for their union activities in Imperial Valley, California. Eight will be convicted of so-called "criminal syndicalism." By 1933, California farm laborers see a five-year wage cut from 35 cents to 14 cents an hour.

Daily Bleed

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