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Natural shoreline barriers on US coasts play a key role in protecting coastal communities from storms like Hurricane Dorian
This satellite image, taken on Tuesday, Sept. 3, 2019 and provided by National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, shows Hurricane Dorian moving off the east coast of Florida in the Atlantic Ocean. NOAA via AP

Natural shoreline barriers on US coasts play a key role in protecting coastal communities from storms like Hurricane Dorian

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New study led by Northeastern University researcher finds first-time investors are better off picking stocks at random
A new study co-authored by Yakov Bart, an associate professor of marketing at Northeastern, finds that first-time investors are failing to diversify their assets, and thus putting themselves at greater financial risk. These investors may be better off, he says, picking stocks at random instead. Photo by iStock

New study led by Northeastern University researcher finds first-time investors are better off picking stocks at random

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India has a plan to deport millions of Muslim immigrants. Here’s why it’s failing.

India has a plan to deport millions of Muslim immigrants. Here’s why it’s failing.

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The federal deficit is expected to reach $1 trillion by 2020. Here’s what that means.
Lights illuminate the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 21, 2018. The budget deficit—the gap between what the government spends and what it takes in through taxes and other sources of revenue—is expected to reach $960 billion for this fiscal year, which ends on Sept. 30. The deficit will widen to $1 trillion by fiscal year 2020. AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite

The federal deficit is expected to reach $1 trillion by 2020. Here’s what that means.

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What’s really at stake in the trade war between the US and China?

What’s really at stake in the trade war between the US and China?

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The Amazon rainforest has been burning for weeks. Here’s why that matters.
Neri dos Santos Silva watches an encroaching fire threat after digging trenches to keep the flames from spreading to the farm he works on, in the Nova Santa Helena municipality, in the state of Mato Grosso, Brazil, on Friday, Aug. 23, 2019. Under increasing international pressure to contain fires sweeping parts of the Amazon, Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro recently authorized use of the military to battle the massive blazes. AP Photo/Leo Correa

The Amazon rainforest has been burning for weeks. Here’s why that matters.

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What we can learn from the backlash to The New York Times’ 1619 Project, a history of slavery in America
Stock photo of the The New York Times Magazine on Aug. 20, 2019. Photo by Matthew Modoono/Northeastern University

What we can learn from the backlash to The New York Times’ 1619 Project, a history of slavery in America

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Why does China have Uighur ‘re-education camps’? And are they really shutting down?

Why does China have Uighur ‘re-education camps’? And are they really shutting down?

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The story behind the data on mass murder in the United States

The story behind the data on mass murder in the United States

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After the shooting in El Paso, 8chan has been implicated in three mass shootings. Should regulators step in?

After the shooting in El Paso, 8chan has been implicated in three mass shootings. Should regulators step in?

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Will ‘red flag’ gun laws prevent mass shootings?

Will ‘red flag’ gun laws prevent mass shootings?

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Toni Morrison ‘has done for the modern novel what Shakespeare did for theater’

Toni Morrison ‘has done for the modern novel what Shakespeare did for theater’

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