Something to Know - 10 July

1.  The streets of Cairo - a war zone - from the New Yorker:

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/newsdesk/2013/07/after-the-shooting-in-cairo.html?mbid=nl_Daily%20(281)

2.  We know that Republican-controlled state legislatures are gradually dismantling the foundation of women's rights and taking apart long-established progressive establishments.  Now, in North Carolina, they are ripping up the basic fabric of what used to be a forward-looking state:

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/10/opinion/the-decline-of-north-carolina.html?emc=eta1&pagewanted=print

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Juan

I'm not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did.  

-- Yogi Berra