journalist and author
Journalist and author of The Unthinkable: Who Survives When Disaster Strikes--and Why and The Smartest Kids in the World -- and How They Got That Way; former contributor to Time magazine
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Amanda Ripley
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FROM Amanda Ripley
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The Upwardly Mobile Barista Last summer, Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz made headlines with a big promise: he announced his company would team up with Arizona State University to help Starbucks employees finish college . Starbucks got a ton of press from the announcement, but has the program lived up to its many vaulted promises of giving baristas access to the American dream? Does it have anything new to offer to the debate about how best to support people who struggle to pay for college and often fail to graduate? Journalist Amanda Ripley wrote about " The Upwardly Mobile Barista " in this month's Atlantic magazine.
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Are America's Public Schools Too Much About Sports? A public school in New Jersey fields 18 sports teams in a year, including golf and bowling. The campus has lush grass fields, six tennis courts and an athletic Hall of Fame. That’s not unusual in American schools, but what are the tradeoffs?
Which Way, L.A.?
H1N1: What You Need to Know, What You Need to Do By early next week, the first batch of some 250 million swine flu vaccine treatments will be available free, paid for by the American government. In an unprecedented preventive campaign, health officials are trying to blunt the impact of the H1N1 virus, or swine flu, as it’s commonly called. But symptoms are described as a mild influenza. Is the public overreacting? Is the media getting the story right? What do you need to know? What do you need to do?
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H1N1: What You Need to Know, What You Need to Do By early next week, the first batch of some 250 million swine flu vaccine treatments will be available free, paid for by the American government. In an unprecedented preventive campaign, health officials are trying to blunt the impact of the H1N1 virus, or swine flu, as it’s commonly called. But symptoms are described as a mild influenza. Is the public overreacting? Is the media getting the story right? What do you need to know? What do you need to do?
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Terrorism and tweets, hate speech and murder Just days before an election, Britain is coping with a rash of deadly terrorism, and Prime Minister Theresa May is on the defensive. And again today, President Trump has tweeted criticism of the Mayor of London. Later, a double murder in Portland, Oregon has revealed the ugly past of a supposedly “progressive” city. One immediate question: is “hate speech” protected by the First Amendment?
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