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Moguls with hoodies: The blurring line between Silicon Valley and Hollywood
13 hrs, 49 mins ago
The roadshow for the upcoming Facebook IPO, together with the heightened public scrutiny into Facebook's inner workings, has opened our eyes to the ways the Internet business as we know it looks a lot like the entertainment industry
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GWU’s Knapp recalls playing with Chuck Brown
15 hrs, 37 mins ago
Just before Chuck Brown took the stage at a George Washington University Alumni Weekend concert in September, the “Godfather of Go-Go” chatted with GWU President Steven Knapp, who is a percussionist
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The biggest challenge ahead for Facebook after the IPO
16 hrs, 51 mins ago
“A million dollars isn’t cool. You know what’s cool? A billion dollars.”
So goes the famous line from “The Social Network,” when Napster founder Sean Parker (played by Justin Timberlake) begins to educate a young Mark Zuckerberg about Facebook’s potential
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President Obama starts with edge on inaugural Fix Electoral College map
19 hrs, 8 mins ago
President Obama carries a significant, but far from determinative, edge over former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney in the race for 270 electoral votes this fall, according to the first detailed analysis of the map conducted by the Fix
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Silicon Valley needs humanities students
19 hrs, 58 mins ago
Quit your technology job. Get a PhD in the humanities. That’s the way to get ahead in the technology sector
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Paralyzed woman moves robotic arm with her thoughts
16 May 2012
A paralyzed Massachusetts woman picked up a bottle of coffee and sipped from it by moving a robotic arm with her thoughts, researchers reported Wednesday — the latest advance in the race to restore movement to people who have lost control of their muscles
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Trayvon Martin documents reveal new details in shooting
4 hrs, 48 mins ago
Neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman shot Trayvon Martin from a very close range, according to documents a Florida prosecutor released Thursday that indicate a hand-to-hand struggle occurred before the teenager was killed.
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Securities and Exchange Commission faces heat from Democrats over settlements
5 hrs, 4 mins ago
The Securities and Exchange Commission, which polices corporations, can usually count on support from Democrats and a rougher reception from Republicans. But, on Thursday, the agency found an issue on which its traditional friends are its critics and its traditional critics are its friends
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America’s not perfect, but it’s certainly not in decline
5 hrs, 9 mins ago
“Anyone who tells you that America is in decline or that our influence has waned,” said President Obama in his 2012 State of the Union address, “doesn’t know what they’re talking about.”
It was a “rah-rah America!” applause line for a president who needed to get the assembled Republicans out of their seats a few times over the course of the evening
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Obama hopes summit meetings can quiet overseas questions
5 hrs, 17 mins ago
Eager to avoid any setbacks that would distract the president’s attention from the U.S. economy in an election year, the Obama administration hopes to use a pair of summits with foreign leaders this weekend to develop some consensus around an international response to both the European debt crisis and the war in Afghanistan
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D.C. delegate to Congress silenced at hearing
5 hrs, 43 mins ago
Rep. Trent Franks’s district in suburban Phoenix is two time zones away from Washington, a fact not lost on D.C. leaders as the Arizona Republican presided Thursday over the latest in a long series of attempts to control social issues in the nation’s capital.
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U.S. grants visa to Raul Castro’s daughter but denies visit by Cuban academics
5 hrs, 46 mins ago
The Obama administration granted a visa this week to the daughter of Cuban President Raul Castro but rejected visas for nearly a dozen other Cubans to attend an academic conference in California, angering both conservative Cuban American leaders and American scholars seeking to improve U
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Counterterrorism expert sees much to be done
5 hrs, 12 mins ago
Andrew Liepman, who is stepping down Friday as deputy director of the National Counterterrorism Center, has spent much of his tenure monitoring a near-constant stream of threats, including the latest al-Qaeda plot to blow up an airplane with an underwear bomb
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U.S. grants visa to Raul Castro’s daughter but denies visit by Cuban academics
5 hrs, 46 mins ago
The Obama administration granted a visa this week to the daughter of Cuban President Raul Castro but rejected visas for nearly a dozen other Cubans to attend an academic conference in California, angering both conservative Cuban American leaders and American scholars seeking to improve U
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Anti-American rhetoric subsides in Russia
6 hrs, 55 mins ago
The harsh anti-American tone that sounded so loudly here over the past six months has grown quiet, and Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev visits the United States for Friday’s Group of Eight meeting representing a country that has officially declared good U
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FDA bans Korean shellfish from U.S. distribution
11 hrs, 22 mins ago
Consumers should not eat shellfish from South Korea and retailers should stop selling it, federal and state regulators said Thursday
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Probe underway in remote area of Honduras after gunfight involving U.S. drug agents
11 hrs, 34 mins ago
MEXICO CITY — Police and human rights activists headed to an isolated river town along the Honduran coast Thursday to investigate what happened last week during a gun battle that local officials say left four innocent people, including two pregnant women, dead in a drug bust orchestrated by U
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U.S. eases investment ban on Burma
12 hrs, 21 mins ago
The Obama administration announced Thursday that it would ease restrictions on U
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