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High-Speed Rail Buzz Overpowers Daily Chug Of Freight Trains

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Business

High-Speed Rail Buzz Overpowers Daily Chug Of Freight Trains

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11 min

High-Speed Rail Buzz Overpowers Daily Chug Of Freight Trains

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From The Inner City: Leading A New Generation Of Muslim Americans

Rami Nashashibi, fourth from left, claps as he marches with IMAN leaders during a May Day immigration rally in Chicago in 2007. Courtesy Inner-City Muslim Action Network hide caption

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Religion

From The Inner City: Leading A New Generation Of Muslim Americans

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5 min

From The Inner City: Leading A New Generation Of Muslim Americans

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Pentametron Reveals Unintended Poetry of Twitter Users

Iambic pentameter, a type of poetic line which Shakespeare often wrote, appears on Twitter as well. A program called Pentametron collects such tweets and turns them into poetry. Source image: AP hide caption

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Poetry

Pentametron Reveals Unintended Poetry of Twitter Users

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4 min

Pentametron Reveals Unintended Poetry of Twitter Users

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Jonas Kaufmann On Wagner: 'It's Like A Drug Sometimes'

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Deceptive Cadence

Jonas Kaufmann On Wagner: 'It's Like A Drug Sometimes'

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9 min

Jonas Kaufmann On Wagner: 'It's Like A Drug Sometimes'

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