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Senate Confirms Obama Nominee To Key Appeals Court
hosted.ap.orgAP: The Senate voted unanimously on Thursday to confirm Sri Srinivasan to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.
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Stealth Campaign Used to Push Abortion Drug Where It Is Illegal
c-fam.orgC-FAM: While debates over abortion laws and international norms continue, a stealthy campaign is underway to gain universal acceptance for the tools and training to do abortions, whether legal or not.
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What our words tell us | David Brooks at Daily Camera
www.nytimes.comDavid Brooks at NY Times: About two years ago, the folks at Google released a database of 5.2 million books published between 1500 and 2008. You can type a search word into the database and find out how frequently different words were used at different epochs. The database doesn’t tell you how the words were used; it just tells you how frequently they were used. Still, results can reveal interesting cultural shifts.
