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'At Year Two, TheSkimm Hits 500,000 Subscribers"

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Quoting from the site wsj.com Posted by:Dr Ahmed.M.Shaban Carly Zakin, left, and Danielle Weisberg are co-founders of theSkimm.   Sophie Elgort As morning television news shows struggle to build loyal audiences of women who once started their days with Katie Couric, Jane Pauley and Erma Bombeck, two young former NBC News producers have quietly built a following for their morning news service, theSkimm. TheSkimm is a daily email newsletter that is transmitted to subscribers weekday mornings at about 6 a.m. Eastern Time. It delivers the news of the day along with a short explanation of the context and import in a just-us-girls voice that manages neither to patronize news junkies nor alienate infrequent readers. Earlier this week, for example, it presented this  under its Quote of the Day rubric : “‘I think it’s my job to work with every president –if she is, regrettably, if she obtains the presidency’ — Sen.  John McCain  (R-AZ) yesterday, on Hillz ...

"UNESCO's newest World Heritage sites"

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Quoting from the site  CNN Posted by:Dr Ahmed.M.Shaban (CNN)  -- Did your last vacation include a visit to a masterpiece of human creative genius? Or to an area of exceptional natural beauty and aesthetic importance? If so, you may have visited a spot on the UNESCO World Heritage List, perhaps the most prestigious preservation list in the world. The newest sites include Saudi Arabia's Historic Jeddah, the Gate to Makkah; the Erbil Citadel, a fortified settlement in the autonomous Kurdistan region of Iraq; Japan's Tomioka Silk Mill; the Van Nellefabriek (Van Nelle Factory) in the Netherlands; an initial section of the Silk Roads known as the Routes Network of Tian-Shan Corridor (crossing through Kyrgyzstan, China and Kazakhstan); and the ancient West Bank village of Battir. The UNESCO World Heritage Committee is naming cultural and natural treasures to the organization's prestigious  World Heritage List  during its meetings through June 25 in Qatar...