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What We’re Reading: May 15, 2015

By Prindle News Hound

15 May 2015

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Need some reading material for this weekend? Check out these links from members of The Prindle Post staff.

Why it can be so difficult to clean up (Jacquelyn)

Men’s rights activists want to boycott Mad Max (Jacquelyn)

In “Architecture vs. the People” Bryan Finoki analyzes “defensive design” (Christiane)

Finished reading? Listen to this amazing story from NPR about what it takes to lift families out of poverty. (Camille)

Plus: All of the videos in this series are great, but this one on drug arrests is a good place to start. (Christiane)

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