In Grussgott v. Milwaukee Jewish Day School, Inc., (7th Cir., Feb. 13, 2018), the U.S. 7th Circuit Court of Appeals held that the ministerial exception applies to prevent a former Hebrew teacher in a Jewish day school from suing for her firing in violation of the Americans With Disabilities Act. ...
Valentine’s Day Remains Controversial In Some Conservative Muslim and Hindu Areas
Again this year, Valentine's Day is countering opposition from conservative religious leaders in some nations. Voice of America reports that Pakistan's Electronic Media Regulatory Authority sent instructions to radio and television stations based on a ruling last year by the Islamabad High Court...
Reading Wikipedia to Answer Open-Domain Questions
This paper proposes to tackle open-domain question answering using Wikipedia as the unique knowledge source: the answer to any factoid question is a text span in a Wikipedia article. This task of machine reading at scale combines the challenges of document retrieval - finding the relevant articles...
The New Health Care: How Dental Inequality Hurts Americans
Lack of dental care through Medicaid not only harms people’s health, but has negative economic implications as well. Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/19/upshot/how-dental-inequality-hurts-americans.html?partner=rss
Trending: Most Sunscreens Can Harm Coral Reefs. What Should Travelers Do?
Avoiding non-biodegradable sunscreen may be the one solution to coral bleaching travelers have the most immediate and direct influence over. Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/19/travel/most-sunscreens-can-harm-coral-reefs-what-should-travelers-do.html?partner=rss
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