12/2/2019: ‘Empty activism’ or appropriate disruption? Unpacking the Harvard-Yale football protest - Pope Francis, In Visit To Hiroshima, Says Possession Of Nuclear Weapons Is 'Immoral'

Today's Article: ‘Empty activism’ or appropriate disruption? Unpacking the Harvard-Yale football protest

From: Deseret News

Readability Score: 12.3

The price of disruption: are some issues important enough to disrupt other people's lives?

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Today's Alternate Article: Pope Francis, In Visit To Hiroshima, Says Possession Of Nuclear Weapons Is 'Immoral'

Readability Score: 9.5

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11/30/2018: California’s housing shortage has companies carving up apartments to lower the rent - Bojangles or Bust: Colts RB Nyheim Hines already has plans for life after football

Today's Article: California’s housing shortage has companies carving up apartments to lower the rent
From: LA Times
Readability Score: 10.4

Amid a sharp rise in housing costs in booming U.S. cities, a growing number of companies say the affordability crisis has become so severe that there’s significant money to be made in offering, if not solutions, at least some relief. Some companies are selling dividing walls or curtains to create new bedrooms. Others are filling rooms with bunk beds.

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Readability Score: 4.9

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3/29/2018: Commentary: The Ideal Female Body Type is Getting Even Harder to Attain - Ex-NFL Player Declines Honor, Says Football 'Destroyed My Life'

Today's Article: Commentary: The Ideal Female Body Type is Getting Even Harder to Attain
From: TheConversation.com
Readability Score: 12.0

A study suggests that women are no longer expected to just be thin in order to be considered beautiful; now they must look muscular as well. Is this a healthy trend promoting health, or an unhealthy, impossible ideal? And check out Today's basic article for an interactive quiz/survey asking students to consider what risks are acceptable in order to attain football fame and fortune.

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Readability Score: 9.3

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8/16/2017: Tech Workers Brace For Seattle's Plan to 'Tax The Rich' - Ravens owner says 'pray for us' over possibility of signing Colin Kaepernick

Today's Article: Tech Workers Brace For Seattle's Plan to 'Tax The Rich'
From: NPR
Readability Score: 11.4

Meeting after work in Seattle's trendy South Lake Union neighborhood, as hundreds of blue-badge workers from Amazon and other companies spilled from their offices last week, the couple spoke for many in Seattle when they disagreed over the fairness of being singled out. 

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Today's Alternate Article: Ravens owner says 'pray for us' over possibility of signing Colin Kaepernick
Readability Score: 7.8

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4/18/2017: Scientists Discover the 'Beautiful' Secret of How Memories Are Made - First Woman on Division II Football Scholarship

Today's Article: Scientists Discover the 'Beautiful' Secret of How Memories Are Made
From: Telegraph
Readability Score: 12.1

They found that the brain “doubles up" by simultaneously making two memories of events.

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Readability Score: 8.3

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11/8/2016:Brain Changes Seen in Kids after One Season of Football - Eagles Move On from Josh Huff Following Arrest

Today's Article: Brain Changes Seen in Kids after One Season of Football
From: CBS News
Readability Score: 11.4

Using imaging scans, researchers spotted “microstructural” changes in the white brain matter of 25 male athletes aged 8 to 13 after a season of football.

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Today's Alternate Article: Eagles Move On from Josh Huff Following Arrest
Readability Score: 8.5

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10/13/2016: As Our Jobs Are Automated, Some Say We'll Need A Guaranteed Basic Income - Ruth Bader Ginsburg Calls Kaepernick Protests ' Dumb and Disrespectful'

Today's Article: As Our Jobs Are Automated, Some Say We'll Need A Guaranteed Basic Income
From: NPR
Readability Score: 10.3

When we talk about the economy, we spend a lot of time talking about jobs — how to create more of them and how to replace the ones being lost.

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Today's Alternate Article: Ruth Bader Ginsburg Calls Kaepernick Protests ' Dumb and Disrespectful'
Readability Score: 8.9

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9/21/2016: Meet the Parents Who Won't Let Their Children Study Literature - NFL Commissioner to Reluctant Football Parents: We're Making the Game Safer

Today's Article: Meet the Parents Who Won't Let Their Children Study Literature
From: Washington Post
Readability Score: 14.0

I found it shocking that some of the brightest students in Virginia had been misled...into thinking that choosing English or history as a major would doom them to lives as impecunious schoolteachers.

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Readability Score: 8.9

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4/28/2016: Race for Latest Class of Nuclear Arms Threatens to Revive Cold War - Blind Since 12, Jake Olson Sees a Path onto the Football Field at USC

Today's Article: Race for Latest Class of Nuclear Arms Threatens to Revive Cold War (11.7)
From: New York Times

The United States, Russia and China are now aggressively pursuing a new generation of smaller, less destructive nuclear weapons.

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Today's Alternate Article: Blind Since 12, Jake Olson Sees a Path onto the Football Field at USC (8.9)

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3/15/2016: Should Hunting of Grizzly Bears Be Allowed Outside Yellowstone? - 7th Grader Says Science Project Disproves 'Deflategate'

Today's Article: Should Hunting of Grizzly Bears Be Allowed Outside Yellowstone? (11.0)
From: Los Angeles Times

A decade after federal wildlife officials tried and failed to remove protections for grizzly bears that live in and near Yellowstone National Park, they are trying again...

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Today's Alternate Article: 7th Grader Says Science Project Disproves 'Deflategate' (7.4)

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3/8/2016: Schools Find Campaign Talk Conflicts with No Bullies Message - The Impact Of 'Concussion': High School Football Player Changes Course

Today's Article: Schools Find Campaign Talk Conflicts with No Bullies Message (11.2)
From: Associated Press

The nasty personal tweets and sound bites of the 2016 Republican presidential campaign are reverberating in classrooms, running counter to anti-bullying policies.

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Today's Alternate Article: The Impact Of 'Concussion': High School Football Player Changes Course (8.9)

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11/16/2015: Missouri Police Solicit Reports on 'Hurtful' Speech, Startling Scholars - Color-blind People Driven Nuts Watching Thursday Night Football

Today's Article: Missouri Police Solicit Reports on 'Hurtful' Speech, Startling Scholars (14.2)
From: U.S. News and World Report

A University of Missouri law professor calls the campus police request 'absolutely jaw-dropping.'

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10/02/2015: Speaker Banned from University over Fears of Offending Islam - Female Kicker Makes Football History at Fort Worth High School

Today's Article: Speaker Banned from University over Fears of Offending Islam (10.0)
From: Coventry Telegraph (UK)

Ex-Muslim, Maryam Namazie, has been banned from campus by the students union which is concerned she could 'incite hatred'

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