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November 17, 2015 btwuser 0

Russian Jet Crash Suspicious Last month, a Russian airliner exploded over the Sinai Peninsula in Egypt. All 224 passengers were killed. Unlike the Malaysian plane […]

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November 6, 2015 btwuser 0

Robotic Cars Face Experimental Ethics A couple of years ago, btw brought you a story about driverless cars. Spearheaded by Google X, the experimental division […]

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October 31, 2015 btwuser 0

The Impact of Defective Airbags Back in the summer, btw brought you a story regarding recalls, specifically citing faulty airbags manufactured by the Japanese company […]

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October 23, 2015 btwuser 0

Two-Dollar Photo Worth Millions If you’ve ever seen the PBS television show Antiques Roadshow, you know that there is a lot of old stuff out […]

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October 15, 2015 btwuser 0

Historic Flooding in the Carolinas When Hurricane Joaquin, which originated in the Caribbean, did not reach landfall on the eastern coast of the United States, […]

Secretary of Education Arne Duncan sits with Eric Simmons in his first grade classroom at Shoal Creek Elementary in San Diego, Calif., March 23, 2011. (Official White House Photo by Chuck Kennedy). (Official White House Photo by Chuck Kennedy). https://www.whitehouse.gov/photos-and-video/photogallery/secretary-education-arne-duncan-travels-california.

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October 12, 2015 btwuser 0

Russian Air Strikes in Syria As ISIS continues to threaten in Syria, Russia has acted on its own with air strikes. A coalition against ISIS—which […]

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October 2, 2015 btwuser 0

Boehner Resigns as Speaker The last five years has been a tumultuous one for Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives John Boehner. But the […]

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September 25, 2015 btwuser 0

Teaching Toddlers to Code? New York City mayor Bill de Blasio recently announced an overhaul of his city’s public school system. One of these initiatives […]

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September 20, 2015 btwuser 0

Heads-up Displays: Safety Measure or Distraction? As technology continues to evolve at increasingly higher rates, especially in automobiles, safety advocates struggle to keep up. Many […]

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September 14, 2015 btwuser 0

Texas Abortion Clinic Controversy Some forty years after the 1973 Roe v. Wade Supreme Court ruling, legalized abortion continues to be a heated topic,  In […]