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August 15, 2015

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Tianjin residents left homeless by Thursday's massive port explosion stay in an emergency shelter as officials try to determine the cause of the blast that killed at least 56 people. Source: Getty Coming Up They All Want to Be the Education Candidate Do they need schooling? Owing at least $1.27 trillion in student debt, today's college grads need little reminder of the problem all would-be presidents are expected to address. Jeb Bush, Scott Walker, Chris Christie and other GOP candidates will be speaking at the New Hampshire summit on Wednesday about their plans to improve K-12 education. Meanwhile, Walker and Hillary Clinton have been sparring over higher education, with Clinton's plan to simplify loan repayment and improve public funding being compared to the Wisconsin governor's draconian university cuts.  Think Progress, Slate, Education Summits Share With Friends:

Story of the Week China Suffers Currency Crisis, Then Disaster They're waiting for the smoke to clear. Beijing's central bank guided the value of the yuan down against the greenback for three days, ending Friday, in an apparent bid to shore up exports. The devaluation boosted fears of weakness in Asia's biggest market. Thursday's massive chemical blast in the northern port city of Tianjin made matters worse, killing 56 and injuring hundreds. The disaster and safety fears it raised — leading to today's evacuation — with charges of mismanagement of toxic chemicals, will likely add to investors' jitters.  The Guardian, Bloomberg, BBC Share With Friends:

Fiscal Minefield Greece? Just Wait Until Ukraine's Bailout Leszek Balcerowicz knows a thing or two about economic imperatives. After helping transform Poland from a cellar dweller to a European Union powerhouse, the former twice-appointed finance minister tells OZY that the U.S. might just be worrying too much about Greece and not enough about Ukraine. He warns that while prone to Greek-style overspending, Ukraine is also four times larger, shares a border with Russia and will provide a test both economically and militarily for the EU and NATO — and therefore America — in the coming years. OZY Share With Friends:

Warriors of Nineveh Christian Soldiers Try to Hold ISIS Back The Dwekh Nawsha aren't your typical Iraqi militiamen. Their flag depicts the Assyrian god of war, they speak Jesus' ancient language, Aramaic, and are a magnet for uninvited U.S. holy warriors. Theirs is one of three Christian forces in Iraqi Kurdistan battling ISIS to protect the Nineveh Plains, where Christians have been beset by invaders since the first century. But local history for believers goes back much earlier, to the long-buried Garden of Eden, where man committed original sin, they say, ensuring today's inhabitants would continue to suffer.  New Republic Share With Friends:

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ISIS leader reportedly raped U.S. hostage Kayla Mueller. (CNN)  Emperor Akihito voices 'deep remorse' for Japan's WW2 acts. (Reuters)  Eurozone ministers seal $96 billion Greek bailout package. (WSJ) sub  Kurdish PKK killed three Turkish soldiers, Ankara says. (DW)   Astronomers find new planet that resembles Jupiter. (USA Today)

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Terra Incongruous Founder of New 'Nation' Tests Boundaries Happy is the country that has no history. Perhaps that's why President Vit Jedlicka is smiling. This April, the Czech native founded the Republic of Liberland, a tiny enclave between Croatia and Serbia that neither country wants. Elected in a 2-0 landslide, Jedlicka, 31, says his libertarian state will "live and let live" while its burgeoning population of 130 finds its own path. But there's trouble on the Danube River's mosquito-infested banks: Another libertarian is trying to take over, and Croatia is losing patience with what it initially labeled "a joke."   NYT Magazine Share With Friends:

Holy Mother Church The Woman Fighting for the Priesthood She's trying to punch her way through the cathedral ceiling. Jacqueline Straub, a German canon law scholar and boxer, wrote a letter to Pope Francis asking that she and other women be allowed to become Catholic priests. She might not effect change for herself — the reply came from his secretary of state and avoided the topic altogether. But her efforts are focused on the future, so that didn't get her down. She'll be satisfied, she says, even if change comes "as I'm dying in my bed as an old woman."  OZY Share With Friends:

Irredeemable Has Juvenile Justice Lost Its Way? Youthful indiscretions are the norm. Eighty to 90 percent of boys admit in surveys to committing jailable offenses, and America's juvenile justice systems aim to take that into consideration. While court records are sealed, offenders as young as 10 can face collateral consequences — amounting to a life sentence of evictions, debt and unemployment — that even their lawyers don't grasp. And for children of migrants, something as minor as shoplifting can lead to deportation to an unfamiliar country. All this fosters marginalization these troubled kids can never put behind them.  The Atlantic Share With Friends:

Saving Cells Anti-Transfusion Faith May Change Surgery It runs in their veins. Jehovah's Witnesses shun transfusions, citing a Biblical injunction against consuming blood. Respecting this requirement, a few hospitals have become proficient at performing surgeries with minimal loss of blood. The patient's own blood is suctioned, filtered and spun to separate and save red cells. Surgeons also run some blood through a storage circuit, reserving it in case of severe bleeding. This thrifty discipline has led these pioneering doctors to try to save patients of all faiths from transfusions, and, increasingly, peers are seeing the light.  New Yorker Share With Friends:

Soft Serve Serena Williams Mulls Life After Tennis So you've made athletic history. Now what? That's just the sort of conversation that Serena Williams is used to, and sometimes she's asking herself the questions, like, "Gosh, is this over?" Far from it. After 16 years, she has the tennis world at her feet, but she didn't expect it to last this long. Following sister Venus' advice, she took design classes and now she's selling a line of clothing on HSN between grand slams. Raised by her father to take on the tennis world, she now seems ready to begin her life off the court.  NYT Magazine Share With Friends:

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