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Welcome everyone to High times from the 302 where we talk about some comic book movie news (rumors, casting, etc.) and also take a deep dive into the lore and history behind your favorite comic characters from Marvel and DC and so much more......

Bringing together the most influential scholars in the field, the fifth edition of this best-selling book provides unrivaled coverage of international relations theories and arguments.

On February 28, 2013, after pleading guilty to violating the Intelligence Identities Protection Act, John Kiriakou began serving a 30 month prison sentence. His crime: blowing the whistle on the CIA's use of torture on al Qaeda prisoners. Doing Time Like a Spy is Kiriakou's memoir of his 23 months in prison. Using 20 life skills he learned in CIA operational training, he was able to keep himself safe and at the top of the prison social heap. It is at once a searing journal of daily prison life and an alternately funny and heartbreaking commentary on the federal prison system.

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"A High-Stakes Bet: Turning Google Assistant into a 'Star Trek' Computer" is from the September 28, 2016 Technology section of The New York Times. It was written by Farhad Manjoo and narrated by Fleet Cooper.

Can one of the most promising — and troubled — technologies for fighting global warming survive during the administration of Donald Trump?

"High-Stakes Test for Carbon Capture" is from the January 02, 2017 Science section of The New York Times. It was written by John Schwartz and narrated by Fleet Cooper.

Hal Brands argues that a better understanding of Eurasia's strategic geography can illuminate the contours of rivalry and conflict in today's world. The Eurasian Century explains how revolutions in technology and warfare, and the rise of toxic ideologies of conquest, made Eurasia the center of twentieth-century geopolitics—with pressing implications for the struggles that will define the twenty-first.

"The High Costs of Not Offering Paid Sick Leave" is from the October 31, 2016 The Upshot section of The New York Times. It was written by Austin Frakt and narrated by Keith Sellon-Wright.

"High Earners Vote Republican? Maybe Not This Election" is from the October 22, 2016 Business section of The New York Times. It was written by Robert Frank and narrated by Paul Ryden.

"High Lead Levels Found at More Newark Schools" is from the April 1, 2016 US section of The New York Times. It was written by Patrick Mcgeehan and narrated by Caroline Miller.

"High Winds Leave Thousands of Homes without Power" is from the April 3, 2016 US section of The New York Times. It was written by Andy Newman and narrated by Caroline Miller.

"The High Fees You Don't See Can Hurt You" is from the April 22, 2016 Business section of The New York Times. It was written by Jeff Sommer and narrated by Paul Ryden.

In the United States, politics has become increasingly nationalized in recent years as voter decision-making is now driven by partisan or national political forces rather than the attributes of individual candidates. Indeed, voters now seem more concerned with which of the two national parties will be in power across all levels of government as opposed to which candidate will represent them individually. Nationalized Politics asks and answers the question, "how has nationalization influenced elections across different political eras?"

In this “sometimes painful, always compelling story of a high-school dropout” (Peter Goldman), Christopher Zara breaks down his winding journey from dropout to journalist and the impact that his background had in the world of privilege. Boldly honest, wryly funny, and utterly open-hearted...

Beginning at the turn of the century, and ending only with communism’s collapse, the US government and major elements in the wider society undertook an unrelenting effort to suppress and criminalize domestic communism.

"A Multitude of Fans, with a High Regard for Broadway" is from the Arts section of The New York Times. It was written by Michael Paulson and narrated by Kristi Burns.

The Contagion Next Time articulates the foundational forces shaping health in our society and how we can strengthen them to prevent the next outbreak from becoming a pandemic. Because while no one could have predicted that a pandemic would strike when it did, we did know that a pandemic would strike, sooner or later. We're still not ready for the next pandemic. But we can be - we must be.

When he woke up in jail in Fairfax County, Virginia, in 2015, Tim Murtaugh had no way of knowing he'd be a senior leader on the reelection campaign for the president of the United States less than four years later.

"China, Sweltering, Doles out Subsidies for High Heat" is from the July 13, 2016, World section of The New York Times. It was written by Didi Kirsten Tatlow and narrated by Sam Scholl.

Throughout the post-Mao reform era, China has championed the principle of sovereign state control, which holds that states should not intervene in the affairs of other states. Yet, as Tim Nicholas Rühlig argues in China's Foreign Policy Contradictions, in recent years they have not actually acted this way. Chinese foreign policy actions fail to match up with official rhetoric, and these inconsistencies - in combination with China's growing power - will have dramatic effects on the future shape of international order.