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Alaska has long ignored warning signs of a budget crisis. Now, it has no money to fix something that is posing serious health and safety risks to students and staff: crumbling rural schools.

Although a petition to ban all property taxes in the state won't be on the ballot this November, the effort has spurred a debate about how Ohio funds school districts.

Damien Chazelle, who is nominated for an Oscar for his musical La La Land,says songs are"an expression of inner feelings that can't be articulated any other way." Originally broadcast Jan 5, 2017.

As an activist, Clare Hollingworth saved thousands of refugees from Hitler's forces. Then, a few days into her career as a reporter, she uncovered the scoop of a lifetime: Germany was invading Poland.

Love can come from where you least expect it. And while a girl learns from her grandmother how to make her favorite Indian breakfast treat, she finds that food, family and love are often intertwined.

Rocky wowed scientists when he showed he could control his vocal cords much the way people do. His abilities suggest that early humans might have spoken words 10 million years ago.

"If you allow the children to attend school, why can't a parent have the right to vote?" said one parent. Some worry the move will complicate and jeopardize the integrity of the city's elections.

The tech titan's latest device/platform drops into a busy gadget niche that has a big gender gap among early adopters. Still, analysts are expecting more than 10 million sales in the first year.

“This is really pushing the limits of everything we do technology-wise right now.” That’s how Case Western Reserve University professor Mark Griswold described a fall performance by the school’s dance department. “Imagined Odyssey” paired five student performers with a technology the university is adapting for the academic world: HoloLens. A Mixed Reality Experiment For nearly three years, Griswold has been working with Microsoft to develop uses for the product.

A simple, scalable program founded by Dolly Parton reaches children before they enter school: In participating communities, enrolled kids get a free book in the mail every month until they turn 5.