Egyptian Activist Discusses Recent Elections

Throughout the Egyptian revolution, Dalia Zaida was out in the streets, calling for the ouster of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak. Once that change came to Egypt, she and other young revolutionaries founded a new moderate, secular political party. Now it seems that the revolution cleared the way not for secular parties like hers, but for Islamist ones. Melissa Block speaks with Zaida for her reaction to the electoral victories expected for the Muslim Brotherhood and Salafist parties.

Source: http://www.npr.org/2011/12/02/143062999/activist-discusses-egyptian-elections?ft=1&f=1004

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Merkel, Sarkozy Push For Fiscal Change In Eurozone

Time is running out for European leaders to find a way out of their debt crisis and salvage the euro as the single currency for 17 nations. As they prepare for a European Union summit next week, French President Nicolas Sarkozy and German Chancellor Angela Merkel have presented their plans to their respective countries.

Source: http://www.npr.org/2011/12/02/143039967/merkel-sarkozy-push-for-fiscal-change-in-eurozone?ft=1&f=1004

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Unintended Consequences of Racial Preferences

George Will, Wash Post
The Supreme Court faces a discomfiting decision. If it chooses, as it should, to hear a case concerning racial preferences in admissions at the University of Texas, the court will confront evidence of its complicity in harming the supposed beneficiaries of preferences the court has enabled and encouraged.In the 1978 Bakke case concerning preferences in a medical school’s admissions, Justice Lewis Powell, the swing vote on a fractured court, wrote that institutions of higher education have a First Amendment right — academic freedom — to use race as one...

Source: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2011/12/01/unintended_consequences_of_racial_preferences_268300.html

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The Search For Analysts To Make Sense Of 'Big Data'

Businesses' desire to make sense of vast troves of data means mathematicians are in high demand, creating a recruiting war for talented analysts. DJ Patil, a "big data" expert who now recruits for a venture capital firm, compares raw data to clay: shapeless until molded by a gifted mathematician.

Source: http://www.npr.org/2011/11/30/142893065/the-search-for-analysts-to-make-sense-of-big-data?ft=1&f=1007

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Modern Greeks Return To Ancient System Of Barter

Across debt-ridden Greece, people are turning to a simpler form of commerce, using both formal and informal systems of bartering as a means to make ends meet. In places such as the fishing village of Volos, swapping goods and services is also fostering a new sense of community.

Source: http://www.npr.org/2011/11/29/142908549/modern-greeks-return-to-ancient-system-of-barter?ft=1&f=1004

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