Though women have been breaking gender barriers for decades, the playing fields still aren’t level. Read about Lisa Leslie’s fight to gain support for the Women’s National Basketball Association (WNBA) and other women’s professional sports.
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Climate Change Is Inevitable — It’s Time to Adapt
Scientists assert that climate change is inevitable. The good news, however, is that humans can adapt to it. Read this article to learn one writer’s opinion about how we can do that.
Teen Refugee: Prince Charming Is Dead
A 14-year-old refugee from Syria to Lebanon, Cayanne speaks candidly about what it felt like to have her childhood stolen by war. Read her story, and watch the video of her interview.
Library of Congress Digs into 170 Billion Tweets
The largest library in the world, the Library of Congress includes in its collections millions of books, recordings, photographs, and manuscripts. Here, you can find some of the earliest stories written in America. But the Library isn’t just preserving the nation’s oldest stories. Now it is collecting billions of 140-character tweets!