| 'Chief Wahoo' out: the mascot debate Posted: 15 Mar 2018 01:07 PM PDT !['Chief Wahoo' out: the mascot debate]( "'Chief Wahoo' out: the mascot debate") The announcement in January that the Cleveland Indians will remove the "Chief Wahoo" logo from use on the field has invited a reexamination of sports teams' use of Native American-inspired names and imagery. Research presents arguments against the use of Native American sports mascots, so why does the practice persist? Q: What was behind the decision to remove Chief Wahoo?
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| The race to be a start-up nation Posted: 15 Mar 2018 12:49 PM PDT ![The race to be a start-up nation]( "The race to be a start-up nation") One way to gauge the world's pace of innovation is to measure how many people fear failure in business. In a just-released survey of 44 countries by Amway, about half of 50,000 people interviewed said they would be willing to risk failure if they were to start a business.
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| To revitalize poor suburbs, Paris taps underused resource: women entrepreneurs Posted: 15 Mar 2018 12:43 PM PDT ![To revitalize poor suburbs, Paris taps underused resource: women entrepreneurs]( "To revitalize poor suburbs, Paris taps underused resource: women entrepreneurs") Weaving through her childhood cité – or social housing block – in the Parisian suburb of Villemomble, Hafida Guebli passes a gaping hole where the library used to be. It burned down during the 2005 riots that spilled over from nearby Clichy-sous-Bois and left numerous Paris banlieues in ruin. Ms. Guebli remembers the violence, police brutality, and skepticism of those days.
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| In Kentucky, all sides agree on need for criminal justice reform. But how? Posted: 15 Mar 2018 12:16 PM PDT ![In Kentucky, all sides agree on need for criminal justice reform. But how?]( "In Kentucky, all sides agree on need for criminal justice reform. But how?") In 2009, both Tahiesha Howard and the state of Kentucky were looking for a fresh start. Ms. Howard's childhood was such a blur of dysfunction and addiction she says she couldn't remember her first drink of alcohol. Kentucky, meanwhile, had become a poster child for ineffective and unsustainable mass incarceration – its prison system growing at quadruple the national average despite a consistently low crime rate.
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