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Now he’s alerted me to a new study and related lecture on what he and his co-authors are calling “peak farmland” — an impending stabilization of the amount of land required for food as humanity’s growth spurt plays out. While laying out several important wild cards (expanded farming of biofuels among them), Ausubel and...	<urn:uuid:d30effea-1f5f-4ff1-874d-1ea41dc97c53>	{ "dump": "CC-MAIN-2013-20", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696381249/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092621-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz", "int_score": 3, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9313429594039917, "pii_count": 0, "score": 2.6875, "token_count": ...	Now he’s alerted me to a new study and related lecture on what he and his co-authors are calling “peak farmland” — an impending stabilization of the amount of land required for food as humanity’s growth spurt plays out. While laying out several important wild cards (expanded farming of biofuels among them), Ausubel and...	ddo K. Wernick and Paul E. Waggoner and will be published next year as part of a special supplement to the journal Population and Development Review, published by the Population Council. Drawing on a host of data sets, the authors conclude that a combination of slowing population growth, moderated demand for land-inten...
Taking Play Seriously By ROBIN MARANTZ HENIG Published: February 17, 2008 On a drizzly Tuesday night in late January, 200 people came out to hear a psychiatrist talk rhapsodically about play -- not just the intense, joyous play of children, but play for all people, at all ages, at all times. (All species too; the lectu...	<urn:uuid:316c7af5-14e1-4d0b-9576-753e17ef2cc5>	{ "dump": "CC-MAIN-2013-20", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696381249/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092621-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz", "int_score": 3, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9614589214324951, "pii_count": 0, "score": 2.5625, "token_count": ...	Taking Play Seriously By ROBIN MARANTZ HENIG Published: February 17, 2008 On a drizzly Tuesday night in late January, 200 people came out to hear a psychiatrist talk rhapsodically about play -- not just the intense, joyous play of children, but play for all people, at all ages, at all times. (All species too; the lectu...	at the New York Public Library's main branch on 42nd Street. He created the institute in 1996, after more than 20 years of psychiatric practice and research persuaded him of the dangerous long-term consequences of play deprivation. In a sold-out talk at the library, he and Krista Tippett, host of the public-radio prog...
LESSON PLANS AND TIMES MATERIALS FOR TEACHING: The Academy Awards The Film Industry Film in Language Arts Film in Social Studies/History Film in Fine Arts Technology in Film Lessons on these pages are for grades 6-12, written in consultation with Bank Street College of Education. Each one is paired with a Times article...	<urn:uuid:6ea66825-3d71-4963-bb78-a2cd08b96170>	{ "dump": "CC-MAIN-2013-20", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696381249/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092621-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz", "int_score": 4, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.7954026460647583, "pii_count": 0, "score": 3.671875, "token_count"...	LESSON PLANS AND TIMES MATERIALS FOR TEACHING: The Academy Awards The Film Industry Film in Language Arts Film in Social Studies/History Film in Fine Arts Technology in Film Lessons on these pages are for grades 6-12, written in consultation with Bank Street College of Education. Each one is paired with a Times article...	Present And the Oscar Goes to... Examining and Creating Criteria for Oscar-Worthy Films And the Winner Is... Exploring the Role of the Academy Awards and Film in American Society LESSONS ON THE FILM INDUSTRY: Creating Film Festivals that Inform and Entertain Audiences The Sundance Kids Exploring What Makes the Indepen...
A.J. NesteBatteries at a station on a Philadelphia commuter line capture excess current when trains brake and store the power for use when a train accelerates. A giant battery bank installed by the side of the Southeast Pennsylvania Transit Authority’s subway tracks a little over a month ago is saving about nine megawa...	<urn:uuid:84a0fd6d-8e59-48fe-8697-123a6e44ede3>	{ "dump": "CC-MAIN-2013-20", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699881956/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516102441-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz", "int_score": 3, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9598705172538757, "pii_count": 0, "score": 2.84375, "token_count":...	A.J. NesteBatteries at a station on a Philadelphia commuter line capture excess current when trains brake and store the power for use when a train accelerates. A giant battery bank installed by the side of the Southeast Pennsylvania Transit Authority’s subway tracks a little over a month ago is saving about nine megawa...	, converting torque into current. Before the battery bank was installed, some of that current was returned to the third rail; but if the voltage got too high, it was shunted instead into a giant electric heater under the train, which simply dissipated the energy as heat. Now the battery captures excess current, about 3...
A few months ago we wrote about Kristianstad, Sweden, an area that now uses biomass to generate all of its heat and some of its electricity. That city pioneered use of this renewable technology, and gradually biomass evolved from a niche component of its fuel mix to the backbone of its fuel supply. A number of rural ar...	<urn:uuid:13940d0b-06e8-4997-b246-39c74fa8ce80>	{ "dump": "CC-MAIN-2013-20", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz", "int_score": 3, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9645323753356934, "pii_count": 0, "score": 3.328125, "token_count"...	A few months ago we wrote about Kristianstad, Sweden, an area that now uses biomass to generate all of its heat and some of its electricity. That city pioneered use of this renewable technology, and gradually biomass evolved from a niche component of its fuel mix to the backbone of its fuel supply. A number of rural ar...	in rural America, and Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack is touring the Midwest, seeding biomass projects as he goes. On Friday, the departments of Agriculture and Energy announced that up to $30 million would go toward supporting research and development in advanced biofuels, bioenergy and “high-value biobased product...
Scientists have long projected that areas north and south of the tropics will grow drier in a warming world –- from the Middle East through the European Riviera to the American Southwest, from sub-Saharan Africa to parts of Australia. These regions are too far from the equator to benefit from the moist columns of heate...	<urn:uuid:71855304-2f8a-4425-8945-02a9b90be1ae>	{ "dump": "CC-MAIN-2013-20", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706499548/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516121459-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz", "int_score": 3, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9223676919937134, "pii_count": 0, "score": 3.078125, "token_count"...	Scientists have long projected that areas north and south of the tropics will grow drier in a warming world –- from the Middle East through the European Riviera to the American Southwest, from sub-Saharan Africa to parts of Australia. These regions are too far from the equator to benefit from the moist columns of heate...	measured a rapid recent expansion of desert-like barrenness in the subtropical oceans –- in places where surface waters have also been steadily warming. There could be a link to human-driven climate change, but it’s too soon to tell, the scientists said. [UPDATED below, 3/6, 1 p..m] Read more…
The thick durable sea ice that routinely cloaked much of the Arctic Ocean in colder decades in the 20th century is increasingly relegated to a few clotted places along northern Canada and Greenland, according to the latest satellite analysis of the warming region. The following video gives you a fascinating view of one...	<urn:uuid:4e953074-259f-4363-a1d9-ec3bbe891cc4>	{ "dump": "CC-MAIN-2013-20", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704132298/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113532-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz", "int_score": 3, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9514726400375366, "pii_count": 0, "score": 3.359375, "token_count"...	The thick durable sea ice that routinely cloaked much of the Arctic Ocean in colder decades in the 20th century is increasingly relegated to a few clotted places along northern Canada and Greenland, according to the latest satellite analysis of the warming region. The following video gives you a fascinating view of one...	a new state in which seasonal ice, which forms in winter and melts in the summer, dominates. This is the main reason biologists have concerns for the long-term welfare of polar bears, which have a harder time sustaining their weight and reproducing when summertime ice is thin. At the same time, the shift bodes well fo...
The rare greenback cutthroat trout, Colorado’s state fish, is even more imperiled than scientists thought, a new study suggests. By analyzing DNA sampled from cutthroat trout specimens pickled in ethanol for 150 years, comparing it with the genes of today’s cutthroat populations, and cross-referencing more than 40,000 ...	<urn:uuid:ca711742-a3fe-43e7-b0e2-17d456553713>	{ "dump": "CC-MAIN-2013-20", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706890813/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516122130-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz", "int_score": 4, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9536575078964233, "pii_count": 0, "score": 3.640625, "token_count"...	The rare greenback cutthroat trout, Colorado’s state fish, is even more imperiled than scientists thought, a new study suggests. By analyzing DNA sampled from cutthroat trout specimens pickled in ethanol for 150 years, comparing it with the genes of today’s cutthroat populations, and cross-referencing more than 40,000 ...	populations were far more extensive and began earlier than previously recognized. Between 1885 and 1953, state and federal agencies stocked more than 750 million brook trout, rainbow trout and cutthroat trout from hatcheries into streams and lakes in Colorado, the researchers found. The study, published on Monday in t...
Exotic pests are nothing new. The hemlock wooly adelgid, which has turned woods from green to brown from the Poconos to the Great Smoky Mountains, arrived 70 years ago on a single hemlock a Virginia landowner imported for his Japanese-style garden. But while federal agriculture officials struggle with adelgid and other...	<urn:uuid:c5256b95-2b54-4524-9ae9-61e691102f84>	{ "dump": "CC-MAIN-2013-20", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696383156/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092623-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz", "int_score": 3, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9557695388793945, "pii_count": 0, "score": 3.21875, "token_count":...	Exotic pests are nothing new. The hemlock wooly adelgid, which has turned woods from green to brown from the Poconos to the Great Smoky Mountains, arrived 70 years ago on a single hemlock a Virginia landowner imported for his Japanese-style garden. But while federal agriculture officials struggle with adelgid and other...	and even cut roses from the Netherlands, are under consideration by federal officials, said Faith Campbell, a senior policy representative for the conservancy. Europe is just one part of the $500 million international plant exporting business that has producers from Colombia to China sending more than three billion pl...
Emily Cox and Henry Rathvon provide the Second Sunday acrostic puzzles every second week. If you think that’s all they do, you need to read my interview with them from last year. This weekend we are treated to one of their Cryptic Crosswords. I try to be careful writing about these puzzles because I’d rather not give t...	<urn:uuid:b2f69596-5687-49bf-9ec9-4da59cafa5d8>	{ "dump": "CC-MAIN-2013-20", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700958435/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516104238-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz", "int_score": 3, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9537226557731628, "pii_count": 0, "score": 2.53125, "token_count":...	Emily Cox and Henry Rathvon provide the Second Sunday acrostic puzzles every second week. If you think that’s all they do, you need to read my interview with them from last year. This weekend we are treated to one of their Cryptic Crosswords. I try to be careful writing about these puzzles because I’d rather not give t...	’re on your own. 1 Across is “From stem to stern, tossed in the Sound (10).” The parenthetical number at the end tells us the number of letters in the answer. The trick to these puzzles is realizing that, for most clues, there are two parts that each point to the same answer. Often is it difficult to separate those par...
The Energy Information Administration has released “World Shale Gas Resources,” an important commissioned report providing an assessment of how much natural gas is locked in shale deposits in 14 regions around the world. (Here’s its overview of shale gas in the United States.) Here’s a map of the surveyed regions: The ...	<urn:uuid:e1b7dd08-a139-4bde-b349-0c94b5f585d9>	{ "dump": "CC-MAIN-2013-20", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704392896/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113952-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz", "int_score": 3, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9554693698883057, "pii_count": 0, "score": 2.640625, "token_count"...	The Energy Information Administration has released “World Shale Gas Resources,” an important commissioned report providing an assessment of how much natural gas is locked in shale deposits in 14 regions around the world. (Here’s its overview of shale gas in the United States.) Here’s a map of the surveyed regions: The ...	diverted to making biofuels. I sent the following query to a batch of people immersed in assessing and/or developing the world’s energy menu but it’s a query for you, as well, of course (I’ve tweaked it to remove some e-mail shorthand): I would greatly appreciate some reflection from you on the new shale gas assessmen...
Disunion follows the Civil War as it unfolded. In a violent denouement to the enormous set-piece battles of Second Bull Run and Antietam in the summer of 1862, that fall cavalry clashes raged across Northern Virginia. In dozens of farm villages and crossroads communities, roving bands of Union and Confederate horsemen ...	<urn:uuid:343b4892-0ccf-489d-b464-b39631388e03>	{ "dump": "CC-MAIN-2013-20", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704392896/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113952-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz", "int_score": 3, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9807292222976685, "pii_count": 0, "score": 2.71875, "token_count":...	Disunion follows the Civil War as it unfolded. In a violent denouement to the enormous set-piece battles of Second Bull Run and Antietam in the summer of 1862, that fall cavalry clashes raged across Northern Virginia. In dozens of farm villages and crossroads communities, roving bands of Union and Confederate horsemen ...	and 10 of his men. The Yankees charged the outnumbered rebels, but the rebels “gallantly met the onset, falling back slowly to a narrow lane, stubbornly contesting the ground,” reported an unidentified Confederate in a pamphlet published during the war. The mingled sounds of battle were heard by the main body of Georg...
According to Japan’s Asahi Shimbun, cleanup crews working near the ruined Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, “dumped soil and leaves contaminated with radioactive fallout into rivers.” CROOKED CLEANUP (1): Radioactive waste dumped into rivers during decontamination work in Fukushima http://t.co/vZ7BFMC9 A team of journal...	<urn:uuid:83ddf3d1-9838-44ef-bc4f-9c0bce34a71d>	{ "dump": "CC-MAIN-2013-20", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704392896/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113952-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz", "int_score": 3, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9775893092155457, "pii_count": 0, "score": 2.515625, "token_count"...	According to Japan’s Asahi Shimbun, cleanup crews working near the ruined Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, “dumped soil and leaves contaminated with radioactive fallout into rivers.” CROOKED CLEANUP (1): Radioactive waste dumped into rivers during decontamination work in Fukushima http://t.co/vZ7BFMC9 A team of journal...	aware that they were breaking rules, the paper reported: From Dec. 11 to 18, four Asahi reporters spent 130 hours observing work at various locations in Fukushima Prefecture. At 13 locations in Naraha, Iitate and Tamura, workers were seen simply dumping collected soil and leaves as well as water used for cleaning rath...
Eleven years ago today, Al Gore, for one important moment, was the most powerful man in our republic. The day before, the Supreme Court, in a 5-4 vote, halted the partial recount of presidential ballots in Florida that Gore had requested. But that did not mean the 2000 presidential election was over. George W. Bush cou...	<urn:uuid:7e75fcc4-8eeb-493e-8492-a15ccfde332c>	{ "dump": "CC-MAIN-2013-20", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368707435344/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516123035-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz", "int_score": 3, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9767981171607971, "pii_count": 0, "score": 3.171875, "token_count"...	Eleven years ago today, Al Gore, for one important moment, was the most powerful man in our republic. The day before, the Supreme Court, in a 5-4 vote, halted the partial recount of presidential ballots in Florida that Gore had requested. But that did not mean the 2000 presidential election was over. George W. Bush cou...	consent is granted comes with the losing candidate’s concession. At this moment, following a hard-fought election where passions have run high, the concession begins the process of reuniting an intensely divided country. Yet this vital service to the nation provided by losing presidential candidates is seldom apprecia...
Developed in partnership with The Bank Street College of Education for grades 6-12. THE COURSE OF THE WAR, 2003-PRESENT Reflecting on Five Years of War in Iraq(3/19/2008) The Voice of a New Generation Examining Iraqi Youth Perspectives (3/5/2008) A Fresh Start? Discussing the Implications of a Resignation at the Depart...	<urn:uuid:c6c432cf-c218-42ca-bc67-099f65f4224a>	{ "dump": "CC-MAIN-2013-20", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697380733/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516094300-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz", "int_score": 3, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.7683438062667847, "pii_count": 0, "score": 2.625, "token_count": 1...	Developed in partnership with The Bank Street College of Education for grades 6-12. THE COURSE OF THE WAR, 2003-PRESENT Reflecting on Five Years of War in Iraq(3/19/2008) The Voice of a New Generation Examining Iraqi Youth Perspectives (3/5/2008) A Fresh Start? Discussing the Implications of a Resignation at the Depart...	0/2006) Same News, Different Stories Evaluating Breaking News of Al-Zarqawi's Death (6/9/2006) Examining New Developments in the Iraq War (11/10/2004) Examining Controversies of International Humanitarian Law (10/22/2004) Justice for Whom? Assessing the Reasons to Bring Saddam Hussein to Trial (7/5/2004) Taking Stock o...
Note: This lesson was originally published on an older version of The Learning Network; the link to the related Times article will take you to a page on the old site. Teaching ideas based on New York Times content. Overview of Lesson Plan: In this lesson, students use prototypical fantasy themes to create an original r...	<urn:uuid:32f50486-ddfc-4bb0-a712-3a1c0b23b5c2>	{ "dump": "CC-MAIN-2013-20", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701459211/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105059-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz", "int_score": 4, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9152565598487854, "pii_count": 0, "score": 4.125, "token_count": 2...	Note: This lesson was originally published on an older version of The Learning Network; the link to the related Times article will take you to a page on the old site. Teaching ideas based on New York Times content. Overview of Lesson Plan: In this lesson, students use prototypical fantasy themes to create an original r...	movie “Dungeons and Dragons” by reading and discussing the article “‘Dungeons and Dragons’: After D and D, You May Need R and R.” 3. As a class, create the outline for a role-playing game based on their own community. 4. In groups, create character profiles for the game. 5. Write a dialogue between two of the characte...
More women are obtaining Ph.D.’s in science than ever before, but those women — largely because of pressures from having a family — are far more likely than their male counterparts to “leak” out of the research science pipeline before obtaining tenure at a college or university. That’s the conclusion of a study by rese...	<urn:uuid:782ce4b1-9ec2-47c5-8645-42f0d3d0f083>	{ "dump": "CC-MAIN-2013-20", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704713110/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516114513-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz", "int_score": 3, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9735641479492188, "pii_count": 0, "score": 2.703125, "token_count"...	More women are obtaining Ph.D.’s in science than ever before, but those women — largely because of pressures from having a family — are far more likely than their male counterparts to “leak” out of the research science pipeline before obtaining tenure at a college or university. That’s the conclusion of a study by rese...	5 percent less likely to enter a tenure-track position after receiving a Ph.D. in science than are married men with young children and Ph.D.’s in science. Not only that, the married women with young children are 28 percent less likely than women without children to achieve tenure in the sciences. Moreover, women Ph.D.’...
Jane Brody on health and aging. Since the start of the 21st century, Americans have made great progress in controlling high blood pressure, though it remains a leading cause of heart attacks, strokes, congestive heart failure and kidney disease. Now 48 percent of the more than 76 million adults with hypertension have i...	<urn:uuid:468fe9ed-e37d-429a-9a3c-27f1ca29cb6d>	{ "dump": "CC-MAIN-2013-20", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704713110/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516114513-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz", "int_score": 3, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9559580087661743, "pii_count": 0, "score": 2.859375, "token_count"...	Jane Brody on health and aging. Since the start of the 21st century, Americans have made great progress in controlling high blood pressure, though it remains a leading cause of heart attacks, strokes, congestive heart failure and kidney disease. Now 48 percent of the more than 76 million adults with hypertension have i...	drugs available to normalize blood pressure, why are so many people still at increased risk of disease, disability and premature death? Hypertension experts offer a few common, and correctable, reasons: Jane Brody speaks about hypertension. ¶ About 20 percent of affected adults don’t know they have high blood pressure...
Soon he came upon a peasant singing and scything. ‘You there, varlet,’ said Shrek. ‘Why so blithe?’” – William Steig, “Shrek” “Shrek” inspired me to let the words fly around my children. Nope, I’m not talking about the movie “Shrek”, but about William Steig’s wonderful picture book “Shrek.” And I’m not talking about us...	<urn:uuid:c31a219c-9082-458a-831a-2e410d0378a2>	{ "dump": "CC-MAIN-2013-20", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708142388/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516124222-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz", "int_score": 3, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9699143171310425, "pii_count": 0, "score": 2.671875, "token_count"...	Soon he came upon a peasant singing and scything. ‘You there, varlet,’ said Shrek. ‘Why so blithe?’” – William Steig, “Shrek” “Shrek” inspired me to let the words fly around my children. Nope, I’m not talking about the movie “Shrek”, but about William Steig’s wonderful picture book “Shrek.” And I’m not talking about us...	why Steig had included phrases like “shady copse,” “churlish knave,” “rosy wens,” and “fusty fens.” Had he picked words at random from a dictionary and challenged himself to work them into his story? Did he have pet underused words that he was determined to bring back into favor? (I myself have waged a losing campaign...
The coming Congressional debate over fiscal policy is sure to feature a wide array of proposals, some of which would hit certain taxpayers harder than others. But one idea being floated by Congressional negotiators, as described in an article by The New York Times’s Jonathan Weisman on Thursday, is hard to defend from ...	<urn:uuid:36d8419f-4497-47ca-b501-a38010070fdf>	{ "dump": "CC-MAIN-2013-20", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697974692/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095254-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz", "int_score": 3, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9784982800483704, "pii_count": 0, "score": 3.046875, "token_count"...	The coming Congressional debate over fiscal policy is sure to feature a wide array of proposals, some of which would hit certain taxpayers harder than others. But one idea being floated by Congressional negotiators, as described in an article by The New York Times’s Jonathan Weisman on Thursday, is hard to defend from ...	. The math behind these calculations is not all that complicated. It’s just a matter of understanding how marginal tax rates work. Take an American who earns $400,000 a year in taxable income. (This is roughly the threshold at which a taxpayer reaches the top 1 percent of households.) The top marginal federal income ta...
Scientists have designed a brain implant that sharpened decision making and restored lost mental capacity in monkeys, providing the first demonstration in primates of the sort of brain prosthesis that could eventually help people with damage from dementia, strokes or other brain injuries. The device, though years away ...	<urn:uuid:aa5e6000-2d56-42f8-b2c7-88299f5a4609>	{ "dump": "CC-MAIN-2013-20", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701852492/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105732-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz", "int_score": 4, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9529841542243958, "pii_count": 0, "score": 3.71875, "token_count":...	Scientists have designed a brain implant that sharpened decision making and restored lost mental capacity in monkeys, providing the first demonstration in primates of the sort of brain prosthesis that could eventually help people with damage from dementia, strokes or other brain injuries. The device, though years away ...	computer cursors. The new paper, led by researchers at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center and the University of Southern California, describes a device that improves brain function internally, by fine-tuning communication among neurons. Previous studies have shown that a neural implant can do this for memory in rodent...
Updated with more Inaugural resources: Jan. 22, 2013 Though President Obama actually took the oath of office on Jan. 20, public inaugural celebrations take place on Jan. 21, the same day that Martin Luther King will be celebrated this year. In honor of both of these occasions, this will be our only post on Monday. Belo...	<urn:uuid:c8a85900-4da2-44ec-ab58-f20e40f8ebb1>	{ "dump": "CC-MAIN-2013-20", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705195219/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115315-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz", "int_score": 3, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.8603190183639526, "pii_count": 0, "score": 3.171875, "token_count"...	Updated with more Inaugural resources: Jan. 22, 2013 Though President Obama actually took the oath of office on Jan. 20, public inaugural celebrations take place on Jan. 21, the same day that Martin Luther King will be celebrated this year. In honor of both of these occasions, this will be our only post on Monday. Belo...	ask weekly in our What’s Going On in This Picture? series to any one of them to think more about what is depicted, why and who. Below, more from The Learning Network about Martin Luther King, Jr. and the civil rights movement — each with links to historic Times articles, lesson plans, crosswords, Student Opinion quest...
Disunion follows the Civil War as it unfolded. Disunion follows the Civil War as it unfolded. But in Virginia, Confederates were having a summer of unprecedented successes. Stonewall Jackson humiliated five different federal commanders in the Shenandoah Valley and at the Battle of Cedar Mountain. Robert E. Lee had stym...	<urn:uuid:101cb34f-ac32-4cf5-be5b-c669ee211cb5>	{ "dump": "CC-MAIN-2013-20", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708766848/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125246-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz", "int_score": 4, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9683234691619873, "pii_count": 0, "score": 4.03125, "token_count":...	Disunion follows the Civil War as it unfolded. Disunion follows the Civil War as it unfolded. But in Virginia, Confederates were having a summer of unprecedented successes. Stonewall Jackson humiliated five different federal commanders in the Shenandoah Valley and at the Battle of Cedar Mountain. Robert E. Lee had stym...	border states lying astride the Ohio River, was about to become the next front. Beginning in the mid-18th century, the Ohio River was one of the great highways of North America. Tens of thousands of people used it to float westward down from the Appalachian Mountains into the interior of the continent. The region fill...
Flip-flops are a mainstay of summertime footwear, but they can be painfully bad for your feet and legs, new research shows. Researchers from Auburn University in Alabama studied the biomechanics of the flip-flop and determined that wearing thong-style flip-flops can result in sore feet, ankles and legs. “We found that ...	<urn:uuid:aeec4719-68d8-40f3-bfc4-39c80b07c21a>	{ "dump": "CC-MAIN-2013-20", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708766848/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125246-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz", "int_score": 3, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9670243263244629, "pii_count": 0, "score": 2.875, "token_count": 3...	Flip-flops are a mainstay of summertime footwear, but they can be painfully bad for your feet and legs, new research shows. Researchers from Auburn University in Alabama studied the biomechanics of the flip-flop and determined that wearing thong-style flip-flops can result in sore feet, ankles and legs. “We found that ...	of Sports Medicine in Indianapolis. For the study, the researchers recruited 39 college-age men and women and asked them to wear flip-flops or athletic shoes. They then had them walk a platform that measured vertical force as their feet hit the ground. A video camera measured stride length and limb angles. Flip-flop w...
In an era when almost every energy technology is unpopular with somebody, the people who don’t want wind turbines, generating stations or new transmission lines installed in their neighborhoods often raise the idea of improving energy efficiency as an alternative. That argument is particularly common in New York State ...	<urn:uuid:4cda4899-535c-49d1-ba21-2625b4bde643>	{ "dump": "CC-MAIN-2013-20", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698207393/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095647-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz", "int_score": 3, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9636873006820679, "pii_count": 0, "score": 3.34375, "token_count":...	In an era when almost every energy technology is unpopular with somebody, the people who don’t want wind turbines, generating stations or new transmission lines installed in their neighborhoods often raise the idea of improving energy efficiency as an alternative. That argument is particularly common in New York State ...	presents contrarian views on environmentalism and energy conservation, found that despite stringent efforts to use less energy, Japan emitted 4 percent more carbon dioxide in November 2011 than it did in the same month the previous year. After a quake and tsunami in March 2011 led to three meltdowns at the Fukushima n...
BRITISH MARKETS FOR COMMODITIES; Results of New Agricultural Wage Scale Still Viewed as Uncertain Wireless to THE NEW YORK TIMES. (); November 23, 1941, , Section Financial and Business, Page F3, Column , words LONDON, Nov. 22 -- The dispute over agricultural wages in Britain was settled this week by the decision of th...	<urn:uuid:c19d526f-aeab-4a1b-b285-106ad6935b39>	{ "dump": "CC-MAIN-2013-20", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698207393/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095647-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz", "int_score": 3, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.8982996940612793, "pii_count": 0, "score": 2.515625, "token_count"...	BRITISH MARKETS FOR COMMODITIES; Results of New Agricultural Wage Scale Still Viewed as Uncertain Wireless to THE NEW YORK TIMES. (); November 23, 1941, , Section Financial and Business, Page F3, Column , words LONDON, Nov. 22 -- The dispute over agricultural wages in Britain was settled this week by the decision of th...	00 annually, lifts the minimums, according to districts, from 60 to 85 per cent above prewar levels.
Does drinking water before a meal help you lose weight? That’s the question explored by Anahad O’Connor in today’s “Really?” column. Dieters have been encouraged to employ this trick for ages, with the reasoning quite simple: the water fills the stomach, thus reducing hunger. But only in recent years have studies borne...	<urn:uuid:64883960-44ce-4f82-9dd9-155186294ef7>	{ "dump": "CC-MAIN-2013-20", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698207393/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095647-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz", "int_score": 3, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9482842683792114, "pii_count": 0, "score": 2.96875, "token_count":...	Does drinking water before a meal help you lose weight? That’s the question explored by Anahad O’Connor in today’s “Really?” column. Dieters have been encouraged to employ this trick for ages, with the reasoning quite simple: the water fills the stomach, thus reducing hunger. But only in recent years have studies borne...	every meal. At the end of the study, the water group had lost an average of 15.5 pounds, compared with 11 pounds in the other group. To learn more, read the full story, “The Claim: Drinking Water Before Meals Aids Weight Loss,” and then please join the discussion below.
In the year after an expert panel’s recommendation that women delay regular breast cancer screenings until age 50, the number of women in their 40s undergoing mammograms slightly declined, a new study shows. The study, carried out by the Mayo Clinic, found a drop of roughly 6 percent in the number of mammograms among t...	<urn:uuid:d1f81412-063c-4796-bc2c-552a3170ed3a>	{ "dump": "CC-MAIN-2013-20", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698207393/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095647-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz", "int_score": 3, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9706381559371948, "pii_count": 0, "score": 2.53125, "token_count":...	In the year after an expert panel’s recommendation that women delay regular breast cancer screenings until age 50, the number of women in their 40s undergoing mammograms slightly declined, a new study shows. The study, carried out by the Mayo Clinic, found a drop of roughly 6 percent in the number of mammograms among t...	4 remained fairly steady, the study found. The recommendations were made in late 2009 by the United States Preventive Services Task Force, a government-appointed group of outside medical experts. The recommendation that women in their 40s forgo routine mammograms stirred particular controversy, in part because of wides...
Jerome Jay Wolken, a biophysicist at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh who delved into the mysteries of sight and light and invented a lens system that gave sight to some legally blind people, died on May 10 at his home in Pittsburgh. He was 82. Dr. Wolken's Light Concentrating Lens System, developed in the 1980...	<urn:uuid:3d3ea825-0a8e-40d7-988b-d35c2e44ff77>	{ "dump": "CC-MAIN-2013-20", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698207393/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095647-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz", "int_score": 3, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9647184610366821, "pii_count": 0, "score": 2.78125, "token_count":...	Jerome Jay Wolken, a biophysicist at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh who delved into the mysteries of sight and light and invented a lens system that gave sight to some legally blind people, died on May 10 at his home in Pittsburgh. He was 82. Dr. Wolken's Light Concentrating Lens System, developed in the 1980...	The system reproduced the lenses that deep-sea creatures adapted over millions of years to see objects at depths of up to 1,500 feet in almost total darkness. The key was a special geometric relationship between the curvature of the top and the curvature of the bottom of the lens. Made of glass or plastic for an eyegla...
The world’s first authorized test in people of a treatment derived from human embryonic stem cells has been cleared to begin by the Food and Drug Administration. The trial will test cells developed by Geron Corporation and the University of California, Irvine in patients with new spinal cord injuries. The F.D.A. had in...	<urn:uuid:2bba8729-8391-4e35-b98e-d2f29ef514d9>	{ "dump": "CC-MAIN-2013-20", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702448584/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516110728-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz", "int_score": 3, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9616110920906067, "pii_count": 0, "score": 2.984375, "token_count"...	The world’s first authorized test in people of a treatment derived from human embryonic stem cells has been cleared to begin by the Food and Drug Administration. The trial will test cells developed by Geron Corporation and the University of California, Irvine in patients with new spinal cord injuries. The F.D.A. had in...	check the purity of its cells. On Friday, the company announced in a press release that the F.D.A. had lifted the hold. Geron shares rose in morning trading. Embryonic stem cells can turn into any type of cell in the body. Scientists envision one day making replacements for injured or diseased tissues to treat a wide ...
A power failure on July 2, which affected two million people from Canada to Mexico, began with an Idaho transmission line that short-circuited when electricity jumped to a tree that had grown too close, investigators say. The failure in that line, combined with record demands of power during hot weather, led to a rippl...	<urn:uuid:f1a5d9ce-ac61-498e-8d60-4b8d4b86b20e>	{ "dump": "CC-MAIN-2013-20", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702448584/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516110728-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz", "int_score": 3, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9725746512413025, "pii_count": 0, "score": 2.8125, "token_count": ...	A power failure on July 2, which affected two million people from Canada to Mexico, began with an Idaho transmission line that short-circuited when electricity jumped to a tree that had grown too close, investigators say. The failure in that line, combined with record demands of power during hot weather, led to a rippl...	. The tree caused the electricity to arc, or flashover, in a remote area about 100 miles east of the Kinport substation in southeastern Idaho. The Idaho line carries 345,000 volts. The flashover, in combination with several other factors, was enough to trip the first in a series of blackouts. Other factors in the failu...
In a city known for its glass and steel jungles and crisscross of traffic-choked asphalt byways, one building in New York has fended off not just the crush of built-up modernity, but also seemingly time itself. Perched on a lush promontory in Washington Heights, there is the 244-year-old Morris-Jumel Mansion, Manhattan...	<urn:uuid:8eea1216-98b6-47d4-b45a-0d559d6d870e>	{ "dump": "CC-MAIN-2013-20", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368709037764/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125717-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz", "int_score": 3, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9617640376091003, "pii_count": 0, "score": 2.65625, "token_count":...	In a city known for its glass and steel jungles and crisscross of traffic-choked asphalt byways, one building in New York has fended off not just the crush of built-up modernity, but also seemingly time itself. Perched on a lush promontory in Washington Heights, there is the 244-year-old Morris-Jumel Mansion, Manhattan...	. It’s hard to imagine that when it was built, the property’s lot stretched from river to river across Manhattan. As if the house itself wasn’t enough of a window into New York’s past, the Morris-Jumel Mansion Museum is exhibiting dozens of photographs from the site’s past — with modern shots by two photographers right...
Conservationists tend to think of wildlife sanctuaries as the most beneficial possible use for a given piece of land, for air, water and endangered species alike. But what if there is a competing claim from an endangered culture? As I write in The Times, that’s the situation in an area of coastal Georgia called Harris ...	<urn:uuid:e26f57c5-bb21-43d4-be79-f75d95e9110c>	{ "dump": "CC-MAIN-2013-20", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368709037764/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125717-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz", "int_score": 3, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9579761624336243, "pii_count": 0, "score": 3.328125, "token_count"...	Conservationists tend to think of wildlife sanctuaries as the most beneficial possible use for a given piece of land, for air, water and endangered species alike. But what if there is a competing claim from an endangered culture? As I write in The Times, that’s the situation in an area of coastal Georgia called Harris ...	Georgia and nearby states, where isolation helped preserve their distinctive ways of speaking, cooking, boat-building, basket-weaving and storytelling. In the late 1990s, in fact, anthropologists introduced Mary Moran, a former resident of Harris Neck, to villagers in Sierra Leone who sang the same Mende song that Ms....
A new study adds to growing evidence that the complications of diabetes may extend to the brain, causing declines in memory, attention and other cognitive skills. The new research showed that over the course of about a decade, elderly men and women with diabetes — primarily Type 2, the form of the disease related to ob...	<urn:uuid:dc467bef-38fe-4dd2-9e65-656894202250>	{ "dump": "CC-MAIN-2013-20", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698924319/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516100844-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz", "int_score": 3, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9684697985649109, "pii_count": 0, "score": 3.03125, "token_count":...	A new study adds to growing evidence that the complications of diabetes may extend to the brain, causing declines in memory, attention and other cognitive skills. The new research showed that over the course of about a decade, elderly men and women with diabetes — primarily Type 2, the form of the disease related to ob...	later on also deteriorated to a greater extent than those without the disease. “What we’ve shown is a clear association with diabetes and cognitive aging in terms of the slope and the rate of decline on these cognitive tests,” said Dr. Kristine Yaffe, a professor of psychiatry and neurology at the University of Califo...
Through the first three weeks of the season, the number of broken bats has dropped slightly compared to last season, baseball officials said Friday. An average of about .8 bats per game have broken this season compared to about one bat per game last season, said Pat Courtney, a spokesman for Major League Baseball. Unde...	<urn:uuid:df51ffeb-4d99-4abe-a9ea-00b0bae6bd32>	{ "dump": "CC-MAIN-2013-20", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705953421/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120553-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz", "int_score": 3, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9759311676025391, "pii_count": 0, "score": 2.53125, "token_count":...	Through the first three weeks of the season, the number of broken bats has dropped slightly compared to last season, baseball officials said Friday. An average of about .8 bats per game have broken this season compared to about one bat per game last season, said Pat Courtney, a spokesman for Major League Baseball. Unde...	new regulations,” he said in an e-mail message. The companies that have not followed the guidelines will be warned, Courtney said, and they will be barred from supplying bats to major league players if they fail to comply. A study by Major League Baseball last year found that many broken bats had poor-quality slope of...
THE great gardens of the world - the Tivolis, Bellingraths and Sissinghursts - have flourished in latitudes blessed with a genial sun. Yet a mere 6 degrees below the Arctic Circle, where the thin winter sun visits for 6 hours out of 24, is the small and tidy plot of Karl von Linne, known to the botanical world as Carol...	<urn:uuid:c80ce526-dd24-4165-b160-4c05c3baf48f>	{ "dump": "CC-MAIN-2013-20", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705953421/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120553-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz", "int_score": 3, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9603691697120667, "pii_count": 0, "score": 3, "token_count": 775, ...	THE great gardens of the world - the Tivolis, Bellingraths and Sissinghursts - have flourished in latitudes blessed with a genial sun. Yet a mere 6 degrees below the Arctic Circle, where the thin winter sun visits for 6 hours out of 24, is the small and tidy plot of Karl von Linne, known to the botanical world as Carol...	botanical garden, with an accompanying house where he could collect his specimens and, with his wife, raise their five children. Linnaeus proceeded to transform this two-and-a-half-acre patch of cool Swedish soil into a major scientific resource, a genetic living library. In his lifetime, Linnaeus' garden became a pil...
The framers of the United States Constitution so highly valued free speech that they enshrined it in the document’s very first amendment. India, the world’s other mammoth democracy, has a first amendment too, but its intent and meaning are quite the opposite. Lawrence Liang, a legal expert and co-founder of the Alterna...	<urn:uuid:a4ec213c-f5ae-43f0-9123-8c80aa508509>	{ "dump": "CC-MAIN-2013-20", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368710006682/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516131326-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz", "int_score": 3, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9551829695701599, "pii_count": 0, "score": 3.234375, "token_count"...	The framers of the United States Constitution so highly valued free speech that they enshrined it in the document’s very first amendment. India, the world’s other mammoth democracy, has a first amendment too, but its intent and meaning are quite the opposite. Lawrence Liang, a legal expert and co-founder of the Alterna...	to the right to free speech, a right that has been held almost absolute, while in India, the First Amendment refers to the attempt to “strengthen state regulation over free speech.” That distinction is worth remembering when considering the dustup over Communications Minister Kapil Sibal’s call for “pre-screening” of ...
Questions about issues in the news for students 13 and older. Do you make decisions quickly based on incomplete information? Do you lose your temper quickly? Are you easily bored? Do you thrive in conditions that seem chaotic to others, or do you like everything well organized? Read what a Science Times article says ab...	<urn:uuid:87dd15a7-60c8-44d4-907e-af8c883e3af6>	{ "dump": "CC-MAIN-2013-20", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368710006682/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516131326-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz", "int_score": 3, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9328269362449646, "pii_count": 0, "score": 2.8125, "token_count": ...	Questions about issues in the news for students 13 and older. Do you make decisions quickly based on incomplete information? Do you lose your temper quickly? Are you easily bored? Do you thrive in conditions that seem chaotic to others, or do you like everything well organized? Read what a Science Times article says ab...	ty-seeking] with problems like attention deficit disorder, compulsive spending and gambling, alcoholism, drug abuse and criminal behavior. Now, though, after extensively tracking novelty-seekers, researchers are seeing the upside. In the right combination with other traits, it’s a crucial predictor of well-being. “Nove...
Seeing Creation and Evolution in Grand Canyon By JODI WILGOREN Published: October 6, 2005 Tom Vail, who has been leading rafting trips down the Colorado River here for 23 years, corralled his charges under a rocky outcrop at Carbon Creek and pointed out the remarkable 90-degree folds in the cliff overhead. Geologists d...	<urn:uuid:35d7f1eb-66d4-466a-8ae7-dfd0872d03d4>	{ "dump": "CC-MAIN-2013-20", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699273641/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516101433-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz", "int_score": 3, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9563716650009155, "pii_count": 0, "score": 2.578125, "token_count"...	Seeing Creation and Evolution in Grand Canyon By JODI WILGOREN Published: October 6, 2005 Tom Vail, who has been leading rafting trips down the Colorado River here for 23 years, corralled his charges under a rocky outcrop at Carbon Creek and pointed out the remarkable 90-degree folds in the cliff overhead. Geologists d...	0 years ago by the great global flood described in Genesis as God's punishment for humanity's sin. ''You see any cracks in that?'' he asked. ''Instead of bending like that, it should have cracked.'' The material ''had to be soft'' to bend, Mr. Vail said, imagining its formation in the flood. When somebody suggested tha...
Almost every day, it seems, there is another alarming study about the dangers of being fat or a new theory about its causes and cures. Just this week, VH1 announced a new reality show called ''Flab to Fab,'' in which overweight women get a personal staff to whip them into shape. But a growing group of historians and cu...	<urn:uuid:ec43b00d-1827-48ee-9d36-357350b7a536>	{ "dump": "CC-MAIN-2013-20", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699273641/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516101433-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz", "int_score": 3, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9675417542457581, "pii_count": 0, "score": 2.546875, "token_count"...	Almost every day, it seems, there is another alarming study about the dangers of being fat or a new theory about its causes and cures. Just this week, VH1 announced a new reality show called ''Flab to Fab,'' in which overweight women get a personal staff to whip them into shape. But a growing group of historians and cu...	Carthyism and even the eugenics movement. ''We are in a moral panic about obesity,'' said Sander L. Gilman, distinguished professor of liberal arts, sciences and medicine at the University of Illinois in Chicago and the author of ''Fat Boys: A Slim Book,'' published last month by the University of Nebraska Press. ''Peo...