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This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. The average power drill is used for less than 12 minutes over its lifetime. What if you could get access to common tools, so that fixing up your house, even if you're renting, was far less intimidating and costly? That's what the University Heights Tool Library does. And that was the starting point for many neighborhood-boosting projects that Darren Cotton and Aaron Krolikowski are pushing forward. 
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Talks on Greece’s debt are at a crunch point. It could be about to leave the eurozone. But would a Grexit really be so big a deal? John Stepek investigates.
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“The youth are usurped when oligarchy, corruption and elite politics stifle meritocracy. The sudden emergence of small centrist parties led by charismatic young professionals in Greece is testimony that this generation has had enough. But by the time they got their act together, Tsipras was already there.
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75% of Greeks believe the new government is determined to carry out its election pledges and 72% consider the government’s confrontation with the Troika to be right, according to an opinion poll.
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Germany is doing all it can to kill the Syriza revolution in Greece, barely two weeks old.
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Inspired by what has happened in Greece, eager to repeat in Spain, they came in their tens of thousands from all over Spain, to demonstrate their solidarity with their Greek brothers and sisters, to demand an end to austerity, and to show their willingness to overthrow the corrupt political elites.
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Demonstration rallies will be held in all major cities across Greece in support of Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis in today’s crucial emergency meeting of euro zone finance ministers in Brussels.
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Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis, while addressing the Parliament, declared that Greece is on the brink of the post-bailout era and also fixes the mistakes that caused the country’s depression.
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Greece is in the center of media attention across the world this week. Reuters published an article on the possible scenarios that may play out over the next days and Thursday’s EU summit.
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The uncanny quality of the new Greek Syriza government, already evident with the finance minister Varoufakis, is also visible in the new Minister of Labor.
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As Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras continues his whirlwind tour of Europe seeking support for his debt relief policies, the onus is on key EU players to figure out compromises, writes James K. Galbraith.
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