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Date: 17 February 2015
By THE NEW YORK TIMES
Get recommendations from New York Times reporters and editors, highlighting great stories from around the web. Today, great reads from Dan Wakin, John Schwartz and others.
A 2015. február 17. egy kedd volt a ♒ csillagjegy alatt. Ez volt az év 47 napja. Az Egyesült Államok elnöke Barack Obama volt.
Ha ezen a napon születtél, akkor 11 éves vagy. Az utolsó születésnapod 2026. február 17., kedd, 100 napja volt. A következő születésnapod 2027. február 17., szerda napon lesz, 264 nap múlva. 4 118 napot élt, vagy körülbelül 98 855 órát, vagy körülbelül 5 931 317 percet vagy körülbelül 355 879 020 másodpercet.
Date: 17 February 2015
By THE NEW YORK TIMES
Get recommendations from New York Times reporters and editors, highlighting great stories from around the web. Today, great reads from Dan Wakin, John Schwartz and others.
Date: 17 February 2015
By ANAND GIRIDHARADAS
Anand GIRIDHARADAS
Date: 17 February 2015
By TAIMOOR SHAH and JOSEPH GOLDSTEIN
Taimoor SHAH
Afghan spy agency accidentally provides wrong photograph to news organizations following airstrike killing of prominent Islamic State recruiter Mullah Abdul Rauf Khadim; man in photograph is actually Kandahar resident Shawali Khan, who is attempting to quietly readjust to life following 12 years of detention at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba; Khan's lawyers brought mistake to attention of news organizations.
Date: 18 February 2015
By FLORENCE FABRICANT
Florence FABRICANT
“Food programming has grown up,” said the former “Top Chef” judge.
Date: 17 February 2015
By SAM ROBERTS
Sam ROBERTS
Arnaud de Borchgrave, storied foreign correspondent known for his bell-ringing scoops throughout the Cold War decades, dies at age 88.
Date: 17 February 2015
By DENISE GRADY
Denise GRADY
News Analysis; legal experts say that states, not federal government, have power to compel citizens to vaccinate their children, though most allow exceptions and only require vaccinations for children entering school; some health experts have urged states to clamp down on exemptions or institute fines in order to encourage more vaccinations, particularly in light of measles outbreak.
Date: 17 February 2015
Do network news operations, with their high-priced anchors, have a future?
Date: 17 February 2015
By JUSTIN GILLIS
Justin GILLIS
Justin Gillis By Degrees column notes circulation of petition asking news media to abandon use of term 'skeptics' for those who discount global warming and to instead refer to such people as 'deniers'; petition points to power of words and labels in climate debate, with dissenters protesting that term 'deniers' is deliberate attempt to link them to Holocaust deniers.
Date: 18 February 2015
By KATHERINE SCHULTEN
Katherine SCHULTEN
How did a prosthetic hand change Dawson Riverman’s life?