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• 'Chief Wahoo' out: the mascot debate
• The race to be a start-up nation
• To revitalize poor suburbs, Paris taps underused resource: women entrepreneurs
• In Kentucky, all sides agree on need for criminal justice reform. But how?

'Chief Wahoo' out: the mascot debate Posted: 15 Mar 2018 01:07 PM PDT 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?

The race to be a start-up nation Posted: 15 Mar 2018 12:49 PM PDT  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.

To revitalize poor suburbs, Paris taps underused resource: women entrepreneurs Posted: 15 Mar 2018 12:43 PM PDT 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.

In Kentucky, all sides agree on need for criminal justice reform. But how? Posted: 15 Mar 2018 12:16 PM PDT 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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