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  • How Country Music Speaks for Everyday Americans

    How Country Music Speaks for Everyday Americans0

    Taylor Swift may be the hottest ticket this summer, but her listeners don’t share her country roots. That space has been captured by a series of anthems singing the blue-collar blues, songs that are a lot closer to—and a lot more correct—about what is bugging everyday Americans. American music has always been an echo chamber

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  • How Corn Kernels Could Hold the Key to Beating Cancer

    How Corn Kernels Could Hold the Key to Beating Cancer0

    Driving down a country highway in the Midwest can seem an endless ribbon flanked by green walls of corn, neatly planted in stately rows. But who would guess that a plant that feeds a planet might hold clues that could help us better understand, or perhaps cure, insidious human diseases? Recent research from Dr. Mark

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  • How Complaining Makes Us More Miserable, Ineffectual, and Insecure

    How Complaining Makes Us More Miserable, Ineffectual, and Insecure0

    The Harvard Business Review reports “a majority of employees spend 10 or more hours per month complaining — or listening to others complain — about their bosses or upper management. Even more amazing, almost a third spend 20 hours or more per month doing so.” Only voiced complaints were measured and reported in the study.

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  • How Colleges Drag Out Degree Programs Longer than Necessary

    How Colleges Drag Out Degree Programs Longer than Necessary0

    In recent years, a growing number of colleges have been rolling out accelerated 3-year degree plans. New York University is one of the latest and most prestigious to do so. According to Inside Higher Ed, the move comes in an effort to trim costs and make college more affordable for students: “New York University unveiled

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  • How Colleges Are Ripping Off a Generation of Ill-Prepared Students

    How Colleges Are Ripping Off a Generation of Ill-Prepared Students0

    Earlier this month, the 2017 National Assessment of Educational Progress, aka the nation’s “report card,” was released. It’s not a pretty story. Only 37 percent of 12th-graders tested proficient or better in reading, and only 25 percent did so in math. Among black students, only 17 percent tested proficient or better in reading, and just

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  • How College Students Really Feel About Free Speech on Campus

    How College Students Really Feel About Free Speech on Campus0

    A new survey finding that college students generally support free speech also shows what for some is a worrisome divide over what students value more: an “inclusive society” that “welcomes diverse groups” or protecting “the extremes of free speech.” The Knight Foundation’s  “Free Expressions of College Campuses” report polled students over the course of three

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