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Wal-Mart, Gap skirt the issue
If the horrific garment factory collapse last month in Bangladesh has any silver lining, it is the response from more than 30 of the world's leading apparel companies — including Benetton, PVH, Abercrombie & Fitch, H&M, Inditex (Zara), Marks &...
Tags: Human Rights, Economy, Business and Finance, Politics, Crime, Law and Justice, Companies and Corporations
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'The Real Indies: A Close Look at Orphan Films' takes in strays
Lost works, home movies, industrial films, abandoned technologies and other assorted cinematic ephemera all fall under the umbrella of miscellany known as "orphan film." The strange mix of the odd and slightly sad gets its own festival at the Linwood Dunn...
Tags: Queens (New York City), Independent (Movie Genre), Arts and Culture, Shirley, Movies
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Peter Sagal's 'Constitution USA' hits the road with humor
NEW YORK — If someone told you of a barnstorming TV host who interviewed people around the country about a given subject, you'd say it sounds like a lot of the road-trip reality series that have proliferated on cable TV. But what if that host...
Tags: Paula Poundstone, Bars and Clubs, Crime, Law and Justice, NPR, New Haven (New Haven, Connecticut)
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Herbert Blau dies at 87; theater director helped shape CalArts
Herbert Blau, an influential theater director, theorist and scholar who helped shape CalArts during its early years, died at his home in Seattle on May 3, his 87th birthday. He had cancer, according to the Seattle Times. The Brooklyn, N.Y.-born...
Tags: University of Washington, Colleges and Universities, Arts and Culture, Lincoln Center, Stanford University
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With NPR's 'Wait Wait,' eggheads at the multiplex
NEW YORK -- At about 8 p.m. Thursday night, as moviegoers around the country were lining up to see “Iron Man 3,”an assuredly smaller group was gathering at 600 North American theaters for the live-cinema simulcast of the popular NPR game...
Tags: Iron Man 3 (movie), Paula Poundstone, NPR, Radio, Academy Awards
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Vietnam veterans' new battle: getting disability compensation
Vietnam veteran John Otte did his best to forget the war. He got married, raised two sons and made a career working at credit unions. But as Otte neared retirement, memories of combat flooded back. Starting in 2005, he filed a series of claims with...
Tags: Cleveland State University, Veterans Affairs, Iraq, Wars and Interventions, World War I (1914-1918)
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Christopher Shinn's plays explore what victims do next
NEW YORK — David Mamet has his hustlers, Edward Albee his domestic warriors, Tony Kushner his brilliant self-flagellators. If playwright Christopher Shinn has a signature character, it is the manipulative victim — the half-sympathetic, half-...
Tags: Lower East Side, Iraq, Cancer, Wars and Interventions, Science and Technology
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Steve Van Zandt, Grammy Museum team to put rock in the classroom
The Grammy Museum is partnering with E Street Band member Steve Van Zandt’s Rock and Roll Forever Foundation to promote the use of pop music in junior high and high school classrooms across the country starting this fall. “Rock and Roll:...
Tags: Music, Culture, Cultural Development, Arts and Culture, Bob Dylan
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School meal standards may help students maintain weight
Researchers have found an association between stricter school meal standards and the weight of students, especially those from low-income families. States that require more nutritious school lunches than the federal government mandated were compared...
Tags: U.S. Department of Agriculture, American Medical Association, Obesity, Medical Research, Science and Technology
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Insider-trading scandal poses risks to KPMG's reputation
NEW YORK -- A former senior KPMG auditor's leaks could threaten the reputation of one of the country's biggest accounting firms, industry experts said. Auditors like Scott London, a former senior partner in KPMG's office in Los Angeles, are privy to...
Tags: Accounting and Auditing, Economy, Business and Finance, Finance, Crime, Law and Justice, Insider Trading
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Rich get richer in recovery, but net worth of lower 93% declines
WASHINGTON -- The richest 7% of American families saw their average wealth soar 28% from 2009 to 2011, while the remaining 93% of households lost 4% of their net worth over that same period, according to a new report. The analysis of Census Bureau...Tags: Economy, Business and Finance, Finance, Auto Trends, Bonds, Federal Reserve
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Wealth of nearly all Americans fell after the recession
WASHINGTON — The richest 7% of American families saw their average wealth soar 28% from 2009 to 2011, while the remaining households lost 4% of their net worth over the same period, according to a new report. The analysis of Census Bureau data...
Tags: Economy, Business and Finance, Finance, Bonds, Federal Reserve, Personal Finance
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