The disclosure of the Pentagon Papers four decades ago stands as one of the most significant leaks of classified material in American history. Ever since, in the eyes of the government, the voluminous record of U.S. involvement in Vietnam has remained something else: classified. In the Byzantine realm of government record-keeping, publication of a document in the country’s biggest newspapers, including this one, does not mean declassification. Despite the release of multiple versions of the Pentagon Papers, no complete, fully unredacted text has ever been publicly disclosed. Read full article > >

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All over India , farmers are coming into conflict with the government as it tries to satisfy the country’s insatiable hunger for land for industry, infrastructure and urban housing. And the decades-old way of doing business — the government seizing the land under a British colonial law, paying a token compensation to farmers and then bullying people into submission — just isn’t working any more. Projects worth tens of billions of dollars have been held up as farmers, backed by local politicians and empowered by India’s vibrant television news channels, have found their voice — and said no. Read full article > >

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In India, fresh clashes over rural land as farmers stand up to government

KROTZ SPRINGS, La. — Renee Ledoux cried when the National Guard and sheriff’s deputies showed up at her front door and warned her she needed to get out to avoid water gushing from the Mississippi River after a floodgate was opened for the first time in four decades. But by the 5 p.m. deadline Sunday, the 44-year-old Ledoux and her boyfriend Billy Hanchett decided to ride it out one more night on air mattresses inside the empty home in Krotz Springs. They have a camper they plan to stay in on a friend’s property outside the flood zone. Read full article > >

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Residents in La.’s Cajun country evacuating after floodgate opens for first time in 4 decades

KROTZ SPRINGS, La. — Deputies warned people Sunday to get out as Mississippi River water gushing from a floodgate for the first time in four decades crept ever closer to communities in Louisiana Cajun country, slowly filling a river basin like a giant bathtub. Most residents heeded the warnings and headed for higher ground, even in places where there hasn’t been so much as a trickle, hopeful that the flooding engineered to protect New Orleans and Baton Rouge would be merciful to their way of life. Read full article > >

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As water from open floodgates creeps closer, La. residents in its path are warned: Get out

SANTA CRUZ, Galapagos Islands It’s hard to tell whether Lonesome George, the last known survivor of his giant tortoise species, is truly lonely. The nearly 100-year-old reptile hasn’t spent a day alone in four decades and recently moved in with two new potential girlfriends of a similar species. Read full article > >

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For the Galapagos’ most prized tortoise, many dates, few sparks

DHAKA, Bangladesh — Bangladesh’s highest court on Thursday upheld the government’s decision to remove Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus from his pioneering microfinance agency Grameen Bank. The ruling ends his decades of leadership at the bank he set up to lend money to the poor. A seven-member Supreme Court panel led by the chief justice announced it had dismissed Yunus’ appeal to remain the bank’s managing director. The panel did not give any detailed explanation of its ruling — a process Yunus’ counsel Kamal Hossain strongly criticized, terming it “unprecedented.” Read full article > >

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Cristol Fleming has gone out hunting for the first wildflower blooms of spring for close to four decades. She knows where every tiny bluish clump of rarephacelia can be found, where every fragile yellow trout lily grows.

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Plants’ earlier bloom times hurting some creatures

Ms. Rotolo entered into a romantic relationship with Mr. Dylan in the early 1960s and, in one of the signature images of the decades, walked with him arm-in-arm on the cover of “The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan.”

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ArtsBeat: Suze Rotolo, Muse to Bob Dylan, Dies

Four decades after the Green Revolution, nearly half of Indian children under 6 are malnourished.

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Scientists solve the decades-old mystery of exactly how tiny fleas jump so far and so fast.

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Flea’s jumping ability explained

In the early 1960s, the varsity basketball team and the fraternities at George Washington University were all-white clubs, but change was in the air.

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A judge sentenced a man who hijacked a plane from New York to Cuba four decades ago to 15 years in prison Tuesday, citing the fear that must have spread among passengers and the flight crew when he put a knife to the throat of a flight attendant and a gun to her back and then entered the cockpit.

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Washington — Without naming names or casting blame, Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. called on Republicans and Democrats Friday to put aside their differences and move more quickly to approve qualified nominees to be federal judges. Currently, about 110 judgeships — about one in eight in the federal judiciary — are vacant, and the Senate approved only 60 of President Barack Obama’s court nominees in the past two years. That was the lowest total for a new president in four decades. read more

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The ups and downs of four decades of gadget lust

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Bangkok – A campaign to rid the world of cluster munitions has still to rope in the U.S. government, a major producer and stockpiler of the deadly payload, on the eve of a key global conference in Laos to ban its production and use. The mixed messages that Washington has been sending are expected to hover over the historic cluster munitions conference to be held Nov. 9-12 in Laos, a poverty-stricken South-east Asian country still grappling with the legacy of the bombs dropped by U.S. warplanes four decades ago. read more

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Cluster Munitions Treaty Leaves US Behind