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I was disappointed in the story about consumer debt and debt collection . It failed to mention a vital point to protect a...lleged debtors. A debt collector that does NOT have the original signed or a certified copy of the original signed contract stipulatin g the terms of the contract does not have a leg to stand on! If a creditor or collector sues a debtor and it goes to court all the debtor needs to say is that they have a right to review the alleged original signed contract stipulatin g the terms of the agreement. Without this, it is all heresy as to any interest rates or late fees or that the debt even exists at all! It also failed to talk about dealing with creditors or collection s persons on the phone. If you want a more complete interview please contact me. Thank you. See More 
Angie Flanagan-HerzbergerI am disappointed to see poor research being done in regards to vaccines. Spreading the lies that the flu vaccine is saf...e for pregnant women, that it can't cause neurologic al damage, that ALL the ingredient s are safe, that deaths related to the flu vaccine are exaggerate d has made me lose faith in the only news media source I had any faith in. Clearly my mistake. Good job swallowing the kool-aid and passing it along, NPR. See More 
Christopher MillerI listen to NPR every day. My biggest complaint is that my local station plays Bluegrass music three evenings a week an...d I can't find any alternative NPR station which offers news/ talk radio at that time instead. My second biggest complaint is that I they talk about the same tired subjects over and over and over and over and over day after day - I must have heard about gay marriage issues and ebola more than a thousand times each, yet, not ONCE have I heard about an issue that is perhaps the single most important issue for the future of the American People: overturning Citizen's United. Shame shame SHAME on NPR for not giving major coverage to this most important issue!!!
I get so tired of hearing about Ebola, Ukraine, Gay Marriage, Israel/Gaza Strip over and over and over, day after day. I understand , these are all very important and significan t issues but hearing them so so often, is a form of torture. See More
Witnesses in the Canadian capital, Ottawa, say a gunman shot at least one person near the National War Memorial, then ran into the main Parliament building, where dozens of shots were fired. Ottawa police say shots were also fired at a nearby shopping mall. Stay tuned here for updates: http://n.pr/1t5cl5J
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A lot of computing pioneers were women. And for decades, the number of women studying computer science was growing faster than the number of men.
But in 1984, the percentage of women in computer science flattened, and then plunged, even a...s the share of women in other technical and professional fields kept rising.
What happened?
Here's a good starting place: The number started falling at roughly the same time that personal computers began showing up in U.S. homes. Those early computers weren't much more than toys marketed almost entirely to men and boys.
Movies like “Weird Science,” Revenge of the Nerds” and “War Games” all came out in the ‘80s. The plot summaries are almost interchangeable: awkward geek boy genius uses tech savvy to triumph over adversity and win girl.
The idea that computers are for boys became a narrative. It helped define who geeks were, and it created techie culture.
In the 1990s, research showed that families were much more likely to buy computers for boys than for girls — even when their girls were really interested in computers.
This was a big deal when those kids got to college.
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But in 1984, the percentage of women in computer science flattened, and then plunged, even a...s the share of women in other technical and professional fields kept rising.
What happened?
Here's a good starting place: The number started falling at roughly the same time that personal computers began showing up in U.S. homes. Those early computers weren't much more than toys marketed almost entirely to men and boys.
Movies like “Weird Science,” Revenge of the Nerds” and “War Games” all came out in the ‘80s. The plot summaries are almost interchangeable: awkward geek boy genius uses tech savvy to triumph over adversity and win girl.
The idea that computers are for boys became a narrative. It helped define who geeks were, and it created techie culture.
In the 1990s, research showed that families were much more likely to buy computers for boys than for girls — even when their girls were really interested in computers.
This was a big deal when those kids got to college.
http://n.pr/1uF0He8 See More
Former Washington Post reporter David Remnick, now editor of The New Yorker, on what Bradlee gave his reporters:
"They have to have somebody behind them telling them it's OK, because there are all these people out there saying it's not; all these governments and PR people saying it's not. You need somebody behind you saying, 'Keep at it,' and that was Bradlee's message in a thousand different ways."
"They have to have somebody behind them telling them it's OK, because there are all these people out there saying it's not; all these governments and PR people saying it's not. You need somebody behind you saying, 'Keep at it,' and that was Bradlee's message in a thousand different ways."
Ironically, taxi-drivers now claim discrimination, because the ride-share services aren't subject to the same government regulations.
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For comparison, the nation as a whole earned a D+.
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How much chaos and conflict could your city experience before you'd move away?
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Here's why there were protesters for the opening of an opera at the New York Met last night, even as the show got a standing ovation.
In the mid-'80s, more than 35 percent of computer scientists were women. That figure is now below 20 percent.
On how he got a death row case overturned:
"They did coerce the witnesses to testify falsely against him and for some bizarre reason tape-recorded some of these sessions. So you hear this tape where the witness is saying, 'You want me to f...rame an innocent man for murder? I don't feel right about that.' The police officer is saying, 'Well, if you don't do it, we're going to put you on death row, too.'
"They actually did put the testifying witness on death row for a period of time until he agreed to testify against Mr. McMillian. Other witnesses were given money in exchange for their false testimony. ... It took us six years to get a court to ultimately overturn the conviction. I think it speaks to this resistance we have in this country to confronting our errors, to confronting our mistakes." See More
"They did coerce the witnesses to testify falsely against him and for some bizarre reason tape-recorded some of these sessions. So you hear this tape where the witness is saying, 'You want me to f...rame an innocent man for murder? I don't feel right about that.' The police officer is saying, 'Well, if you don't do it, we're going to put you on death row, too.'
"They actually did put the testifying witness on death row for a period of time until he agreed to testify against Mr. McMillian. Other witnesses were given money in exchange for their false testimony. ... It took us six years to get a court to ultimately overturn the conviction. I think it speaks to this resistance we have in this country to confronting our errors, to confronting our mistakes." See More
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