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1. Your gut bacteria might help protect you from high blood pressure.
By Anne Trafton at MIT News
2. Graduating to the couch: How high schools are letting down students with disabilities.
By Jackie Mader and Sarah Butrymowicz in the Hechinger Report
3. Google and Facebook are bringing back an old tradition: the company town.
By Luke Stangel in CXO Magazine
4. We’re learning more about the importance of a diverse teaching force.
By David Figlio at the Brookings Institution
5. To catch poachers and save the species, decoy sea turtle eggs are getting a GPS upgrade.
By Adele Peters in Fast Company

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