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Philadelphia educator Rosita Johnson recognized by South African government
August 21, 2018In a career spanning decades, Rosita Johnson has distinguished herself as an advocate for quality public education on two continents.
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China builds an ‘Ecological Civilization’ while the world burns
August 21, 2018Chinese efforts to curb harmful emissions have been recognized around the world including by leaders of groups like the Environmental Defense Fund here in the U.S..
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Colombia and U.S. implicated in plot to kill Venezuelan president
August 21, 2018From Bogota to Miami, more names are popping up in the list of accomplices in the Maduro assassination attempt.
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‘Yiddish Glory’ CD records Jewish pain and resistance in World War II
August 20, 2018Even as WWII was still raging, a group of Soviet Yiddish scholars undertook an ambitious project of preserving Jewish culture of the 1940s while and soon after it was created. Linguists, folklorists, and historians joined to...
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This week in history: The Oslo Accord, 1993
August 20, 2018Negotiations concerning the agreement were conducted secretly in Oslo, Norway, and completed 25 years ago, on August 20, 1993.
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