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Wednesday, December 5 2012

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    America's Changing Relationship with International Law | Lessons Learned from the Oslo Accords | Paris Opens Europe's First Gay-Friendly Mosque | "My Friend Dahmer": The Education of ... (episode)

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    • America's Changing Relationship with International Law December 5, 2012

      The vote to ratify the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities failed in the Senate yesterday by six votes. In recent years, American lawmakers and judges...

    • Paris Opens Europe's First Gay-Friendly Mosque December 5, 2012

      Despite a long tradition of condemning homosexuality in Islam, Europe's first gay-friendly mosque opened last week in Paris. Similar efforts have also begun in the United States. Ludo...

    • Young Latino Readers Search for Themselves in Books December 5, 2012

      Latino students now make up almost 25 percent of the country's public school population. But despite their numbers, young Latino readers still aren't seeing themselves in the books th...

    • Expanding the Sign Language Lexicon for Science December 5, 2012

      Regardless of the state of the law, people with disabilities have been finding their own way in the able-bodied world for some time. For example, in a highly technical field where ter...

    • 'My Friend Dahmer': The Education of a Serial killer December 5, 2012

      Serial killer Jeffery Dahmer was arrested in 1991 and charged with murdering 17 people. Derf Backderf went to school with Jeffrey Dahmer. After Dahmer's death, he finally sat down t...

    • What Are the New Deadly Sins? December 5, 2012

      Wrath, greed, sloth, pride, lust, envy, and gluttony. Why has Pope Gregory I's 650 AD list of deadly sins endured all these years later? Alex Clark, co-editor of “The Seven Deadly Sin...