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Global Coalition to Counter ISIL: The Coalition at One Year
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- Written by State Department
Washington, DC - In the year since the formation of the Global Coalition to Counter ISIL we have made progress on our campaign to degrade and defeat this unprecedented terrorist scourge. As we have acknowledged from the beginning, this will be a long-term campaign. But the situation one year ago was dire: ISIL, also known by its Arabic acronym Da’esh, had advanced across Iraq and was threatening Erbil, Kirkuk and Baghdad. Additional attacks against the Yezidi people appeared imminent. Since that time, despite inevitable setbacks, the Coalition has followed through on its comprehensive, strategic approach, and has proven its ability to constrain Da’esh’s freedom of movement in Iraq and Syria.
Democracy still holds promise globally, though in retreat for now
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- Written by Clifton B. Parker
Stanford, California - Democracy has faltered around the world due to an inevitable slowdown, the lack of democratic conditions in some countries, and autocrats who seek to neutralize the liberating effects of technology, a Stanford professor says.
Distinctive contexts critical to how children learn words
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- Written by Clifton B. Parker
Stanford, California - Children learn words best when they are used in a context that is coherent and distinctive, new Stanford research shows.
Study indicates school meals may expose children to unsafe levels of BPA
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- Written by Paige Miller
Stanford, California - Federal standards for school meals are intended to keep kids healthy. But with emphasis solely on nutrition, schools are missing another component critical to students' health – exposure to toxic chemicals, according to a study led by Jennifer Hartle, a postdoctoral researcher at the Stanford Prevention Research Center.
Stanford engineers invent transparent coating that cools solar cells to boost efficiency
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- Written by Glen Martin
Stanford, California - Every time you stroll outside you emit energy into the universe: Heat from the top of your head radiates into space as infrared light.
Privacy is doomed
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- Written by UCBerkeley
Berkeley, California - Surveillance and privacy are waging a full-on arms race as technology advances, says Jeffrey MacKie-Mason, UC Berkeley’s incoming university librarian and chief digital scholarship officer. And surveillance is winning.
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