Before this project, the language of the Yukagir was spoken fluently by only seventeen people.

UNESCO: CULTURE

By the time McKeon gavelled his meeting to order, just after ten in the morning, only seventeen members of the House Armed Services Committee (five Democrats and twelve Republicans) had shown up to hear the three former heads of the Joint Chiefs of Staff who had been called to testify.

NEWYORKER: The Force

Smartphones are the biggest culprit, though not the only one: seventeen percent of all gamers have downloaded a gaming app for their phone.

FORBES: US Gaming Population Has Almost Tripled Since 2008

In all the seventeen years the only time he had ever spoken to me with any tenderness if you could call it that was the afternoon of the day before he died.

NPR: Excerpt: The Sherwood Ring

The point to take away: Obama Care will cost well in excess of a trillion dollars but will reduce the number of uninsured only from 36 to 30 million, or by seventeen percent.

FORBES: Government Study Finds Obama Care Leaves Thirty Million Uninsured

Seventeen on them reached number one, a feat topped only by Stevie Wonder and Louis Jordan, and equalled only by Aretha Franklin.

BBC: James Brown

Mundy's letter should be required reading - not only by those who will be responsible in the next few hours for casting votes on legislation that would repeal a seventeen-year-old statutory ban on homosexuals serving in uniform.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Message from a Marine: Don��t Break the Military