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After World War II, when the United States faced increased military and scientific competition from the Soviet Union, selective universities began to assign greater weight to academic factors, includi... 1.000

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Education , History

Simplified: Selective universities began to assign greater weight to academic factors including the SAT after World War II.

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In the early 20th century, colleges considered intangible factors such as character, leadership and athleticism. 1.000

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Education , History

Simplified: Colleges considered intangible factors such as character leadership and athleticism in the early 20th century.

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Those criteria were also often used to depress the representation of certain groups, such as Jewish students. 1.000

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Education , History

Simplified: Those criteria were often used to depress the representation of certain groups.

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In his memoir “Eat a Peach,” which chronicles his rise to fame, David Chang tells the story of an early customer at Noodle Bar who, after eating a crawfish special, suggested that the kitchen serve cr... 1.000

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Person , History

Simplified: David Chang tells story of early customer at Noodle Bar who suggested kitchen serve crustaceans out of shell next time

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The cacio e pepe served a decade ago at Momofuku’s Nishi, in which a housemade chickpea miso dared to replace the umami charge of pecorino, is just another blueprint now for easy weeknight recipes. 1.000

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Food , History

Simplified: Cacio e pepe served a decade ago at Momofuku's Nishi is just another blueprint now for easy weeknight recipes

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Steven Spielberg’s Dive! was once a draw here. 1.000

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Restaurant , History

Simplified: Steven Spielberg's Dive! was once a draw here

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Westfield Century City grew out of an old 20th Century Fox backlot on the West side of Los Angeles in the 1960s. 1.000

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Mall , History

Simplified: Westfield Century City grew out of an old 20th Century Fox backlot in the 1960s

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The free world cared profoundly about names like Solzhenitsyn, Sakharov and Sharansky in the Soviet Union, or Biermann, Havel and Walesa in the captive states of Central Europe. 0.900

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Politics , History

Simplified: The free world cared profoundly about names like Solzhenitsyn Sakharov and Sharansky in the Soviet Union or Biermann Havel and Walesa in the captive s...

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George W. Bush attended a conference of dissidents in Prague in 2007. 1.000

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Politics , History

Simplified: George W Bush attended a conference of dissidents in Prague in 2007

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During Ronald Reagan's 1980 presidential campaign, he pushed for it to be dismantled. 0.950

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Politics , History

Simplified: During Ronald Reagan's 1980 presidential campaign he pushed for it to be dismantled

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Republicans have historically pushed against centralising education policy, believing that it is best left up to individual states and localities. 0.950

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Politics , History

Simplified: Republicans have historically pushed against centralizing education policy believing that it is best left up to individual states and localities

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Conservatives, though, have long sought to eliminate the department, almost from the moment it was established in 1979. 0.950

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Politics , History

Simplified: Conservatives have long sought to eliminate the department almost from the moment it was established in 1979

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The Department of Education opened its doors in 1980. 1.000

👤 Marty West 📋 News Article 🏷️ Education , History

Simplified: The Department of Education opened its doors in 1980.

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The US government has been involved in public education since the 1800s. 0.950

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ History , Education

Simplified: US government has been involved in public education since 1800s

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The Department of Education was not created until the Carter administration. 0.950

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ History , Education

Simplified: Department of Education was not created until Carter administration

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This is bigger than Watergate. 0.950

👤 The author 📋 Podcast 🏷️ Politics , History

Simplified: This is bigger than Watergate

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The blood libel is a notorious antisemitic trope that goes back to medieval Europe, falsely accusing Jews of killing Christians, especially children, to use their blood in religious rituals. 1.000

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ History , Antisemitism

Simplified: Blood libel is an antisemitic trope falsely accusing Jews of killing Christians

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Sheean's account of the 1920s illustrates the conflict's deep root system in the land that Israelis and Palestinians both want and have not found a way, or a will, to share or separate. 1.000

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ History , Conflict

Simplified: Sheean's account illustrates the conflict's deep roots in the land

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But Netanyahu, and many other Israelis and their supporters abroad connected the October attacks to the centuries of persecution Jews suffered in Europe, which culminated with Nazi Germany killing six... 1.000

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ History , Politics

Simplified: Netanyahu connected October attacks to centuries of persecution of Jews in Europe

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By 1929 Vincent Sheean, an American journalist, was describing Jerusalem in a way that is grimly familiar to reporters there almost a century later. 1.000

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ History , Journalism

Simplified: By 1929 Vincent Sheean described Jerusalem in a way familiar to reporters

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