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1. Watch the gender pay gap start small, then explode over time.
By Jeanna Smialek in Bloomberg Businessweek
2. You can now look up emergency room wait times, hospital noise and more on Yelp.
By Lena H. Sun in the Washington Post
3. Under pressure, Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood might be growing even more extreme.
By Nathan Brown and Michele Dunne at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
4. Do we know how to help teachers get better? Unfortunately, no.
By Dan Weisberg at TNTP
5. Never mind Iran and North Korea. Here’s where the real nuclear danger lies.
By Joe Cirincione in Al Jazeera America

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