That April 10 nearly six years ago was one of Jaime Contreras’s defining moments. People arrived on the Mall by the tens of thousands, waving American flags and chanting in Spanish, “Yes, we can!” Contreras, 37, still vividly remembers the vigor of more than a quarter of a million people demanding immigration reform. Read full article > >

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Voice behind efforts for Md. Dream Act began activism as a teenage immigrant

Thirty years ago, a young and floppy-haired Steve Jobs made a rare lobbying effort in Washington to get more Apple computers into classrooms. The effort paid off: Apple got tax breaks for donating computers to schools, a charitable effort that won over educators and made the Apple II and the Mac the first computers used by millions of children. Read full article > >

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MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. — On Monday, Mitt Romney finally got the Jon Huntsman endorsement he thought he’d been promised long ago. Six years ago, after a private dinner with their wives, Romney came away believing he would have Huntsman’s backing for president, according to a Romney adviser. Romney was so sure of the then-Utah governor’s support that he asked him to write position papers on China, a country Huntsman knows well. Romney even shared internal strategy with him. Read full article > >

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Huntsman’s endorsement of Romney underscores strained relationship

A former senior policeman calls for the murder of an Asian waiter in Lanarkshire more than 13 years ago to be re-investigated.

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Call to reopen 1998 murder case

Groceries today cost 13 times less than 150 years ago, according to a study from The Grocer magazine.

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Groceries ‘cheaper than in 1862′

LONDON – A judge sentenced two white men to at least 14 years in prison on Wednesday for killing a black teenager 18 years ago, a case that exposed racism in Scotland Yard and prompted discussions about race relations in Britain. Gary Dobson, 36, and David Norris, 35, were sentenced to at least 15 years and two months and 14 years and three months in prison respectively for the murder. Read full article > >

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2 men sentenced in race-based 1993 murder in Britain

The solicitor for the family of 15-year-old Daniel Hegarty who was shot dead by a soldier almost 40 years ago has said they are “overwhelmed” by the findings of an inquest jury.

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One day some years ago, I complimented my wife on a new shirt she was wearing. “I like that shade of pink,” I said, to pitiless laughter. My daughter was quickly summoned. “Dad thinks this is pink,” the wife said, and more hilarity ensued. The consensus of the women was that the shirt was “coral,” although some sentiment was expressed for “persimmon.” But there was agreement on the utter incorrectness of “pink.” It was as though I had pronounced a watermelon to be a kangaroo. Read full article > >

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The regulator which inspects hospitals and care homes in England has “struggled” since its creation two years ago, a report says.

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Hospital regulator ‘struggling’

NASA officials were asked some years ago to catalogue the number of technical actions and successful communications necessary to fly a spacecraft safely from Earth to Mars. The number: about 10,000. And that was for an orbiter, as opposed to a lander such as the Mars Science Laboratory , which requires an additional and very demanding descent through the thin Martian atmosphere to the surface. Read full article > >

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Landing on Mars is hard, but another mission to the Red Planet is about to begin

NASA officials were asked some years ago to catalogue the number of technical actions and successful communications necessary to fly a spacecraft safely from Earth to Mars. The number: about 10,000. And that was for an orbiter, as opposed to a lander such as the Mars Science Laboratory , which requires an additional and very demanding descent through the thin Martian atmosphere to the surface. Read full article > >

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Landing on Mars is hard, but another mission to the Red Planet is about to begin

When They Might Be Giants first appeared on the musical landscape 25 years ago, to call them outliers would be wholly insufficient. Armed with their trademark literary preoccupations, indelible melodies and deranged dada-esque touches, the band’s strangeness was nearly Martian in scale. In terms of commercial prospects, their timing could scarcely have been worse. Read full article > >

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They Might Be Giants, still at large

The trial of two men accused of murdering black teenager Stephen Lawrence 18 years ago begins in front of an Old Bailey jury.

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Jury sworn in for Lawrence trial

Legendary Penn State football coach Joe Paterno said, “ I did what I was supposed to .” In fact, nobody at Penn State did what basic human decency requires — and as a result, according to prosecutors, an alleged sexual predator who could have been stopped years ago was allowed to continue molesting young boys. Read full article > >

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In Penn State’s scandal, where was the leadership?

Fifty years ago this fall, civil rights groups protested the opening of D.C. Stadium, whose most important tenants — the Washington Redskins — were the last National Football League team to remain segregated. A half-century after many area sports fans boycotted the team for racial reasons, the Redskins have an unrivaled hold on Washington’s black community . Read full article > >

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Black fans have grown to love the Redskins