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Lilo Heller, 94: Holocaust victim and citizen of the world
February 18, 2015Lilo Heller, a Holocaust survivor, was born in Germany in 1921 and witnessed the rise of Nazism.
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A lynching in New Orleans
February 18, 2015How recent these events! How deeply seared in living human memory!
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Hell on rails: West Virginia burning after crude oil train derailment
February 18, 2015The fires from the derailment in Fayette County continued to burn Tuesday morning, and emergency shelters for hundreds of people who had to evacuate after the derailment remain open.
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Even amidst climate change, geoengineering is not the answer
February 17, 2015Geoengineering was once considered a fringe idea, but in these climatically desperate times some are arguing for desperate measures.
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Today in African-American history: Honoring Robert Robinson Taylor
February 17, 2015Taylor was the first academically trained black architect in the U.S. and the first black graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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