October 9, 2015
Sidney’s Picks: Elephants, Planned Parenthood, and the Nobel Prize
Photo credit:
Diana Robinson, Creative Commons.
The Best of the Week’s News
- “Wal-Mart is the embodiment of our broken economic system,” says AFL-CIO president Richard Trumka.
- New York City teacher speaks out against the burden of standardized testing.
- GOP probe of Planned Parenthood finds no evidence of wrong-doing.
- A newly-discovered gene accounts for elephants’ enviably low cancer rates.
- A Russian journalist who chronicled Chernobyl wins the Nobel Prize in Literature.