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Fast Company Chris Gayomali	No Indictment In The Eric Garner Choke-Hold Death, Which Was Caught On Video On Wednesday, a New York grand jury in Staten Island elected not to indict Daniel Pantaleo, the white police officer who put Eric Garner into the choke hold that caused his death.
Fast Company Neal Ungerleider	What Cops And Other Law Enforcement Officials Think About #CrimingWhileWhite The viral flood of responses under the hashtag #CrimingWhileWhite purport to tell of times crimes (ranging from the petty to the serious with everything in-between) that were ignored or forgiven by law enforcement.
Fast Company Rebecca Greenfield	This Is What America Is Saying About Eric Garner Americans swiftly took to social media to call for reform and organize demonstrations via the hashtags #ShutItDown, #DieIn, and #BlackLivesMatter.
Chemistry World December 3, 2014 Rebecca Trager	DuPont quantifies scale of deadly chemical leak DuPont has quantified the amount of methyl mercaptan that leaked from its plant in La Porte, US, last month, killing four workers.
Chemistry World December 2, 2014 Rebecca Trager	US moves to tighten ozone limits The US Environmental Protection Agency has proposed tightening air quality standards for ground-level ozone, a constituent of smog. Industry groups said the new measures were too stringent.
Information Today December 2, 2014	UNESCO's Creative Cities Network Gains Members UNESCO announced that 28 cities from 19 countries joined its Creative Cities Network, which aims to foster cooperation among cities around the world for sustainable development purposes.
CRM December 2014 Marshall Lager	The Age of Entitled Consumers What hath consumerism wrought? Consumer culture is changing our behavior for the worse, and possibly destroying the planet in the bargain.
Chemistry World December 1, 2014 Rebecca Trager	Hard questions after litany of forensic failures at US labs At least five high profile cases of serious malpractice at US forensic crime labs have come to light in the last two years.
Chemistry World November 28, 2014 Matthew Gunther	Graphene's showdown with the man with the golden gun Engineers in the US have created a miniature shooting range to show that multilayer graphene, 10 to 100nm thick, may make excellent body armor.
Chemistry World November 27, 2014 Tim Wogan	Cool idea for zero-carbon air conditioning that requires no power source A surface that cools in direct sunlight without a power source has been demonstrated by US researchers
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