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Protests May Have Spread Coronavirus, Some Cities Admit
Officials in Los Angeles, Seattle, and Miami-Dade County, Fla., have acknowledged that anti-police protests and riots may have led to increased spread of the coronavirus, according to a Fox News report.
All three cities have experienced an uptick in coronavirus cases after weeks of protesting sparked by the ...
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Protests May Have Spread Coronavirus, Some Cities Admit
Officials in Los Angeles, Seattle, and Miami-Dade County, Fla., have acknowledged that anti-police protests and riots may have led to increased spread of the coronavirus, according to a Fox News report.
All three cities have experienced an uptick in coronavirus cases after weeks of protesting sparked by the ...
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If You Want to Rename a Site Named after a Confederate Figure . . .
The folks who want to rename landmarks currently named after Confederate generals and leaders are going about it all wrong -- that is, if they really want to convince people to rename those landmarks.
Most human beings, and particularly most Americans, are instinctively resistant to any message in the vein of, ...
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If You Want to Rename a Site Named after a Confederate Figure . . .
The folks who want to rename landmarks currently named after Confederate generals and leaders are going about it all wrong -- that is, if they really want to convince people to rename those landmarks.
Most human beings, and particularly most Americans, are instinctively resistant to any message in the vein of, ...
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Research: One Group Spread 65 Percent of All COVID-19 Cases across US
Thousands of travelers carried the coronavirus from New York around the United States in early March, triggering most of the new cases that erupted nationwide.
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Research: One Group Spread 65 Percent of All COVID-19 Cases across US
Thousands of travelers carried the coronavirus from New York around the United States in early March, triggering most of the new cases that erupted nationwide.
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Quadriplegic Father with Coronavirus Died after Austin Hospital Opted to End Treatment
A quadriplegic father of five, 46-year-old Michael Hickson, died last month after he was diagnosed with coronavirus and the Austin hospital treating him concluded he had little “quality of life” left and halted his treatment.
Hickson became a quadriplegic after he went into cardiac arrest in 2017 while he ...
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Quadriplegic Father with Coronavirus Died after Austin Hospital Opted to End Treatment
A quadriplegic father of five, 46-year-old Michael Hickson, died last month after he was diagnosed with coronavirus and the Austin hospital treating him concluded he had little “quality of life” left and halted his treatment.
Hickson became a quadriplegic after he went into cardiac arrest in 2017 while he ...
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Universities Sowing the Seeds of Their Own Obsolescence
When mobs tore down a statue of Ulysses S. Grant and defaced a monument to African-American veterans of the Civil War, many people wondered whether the protesters had ever learned anything in high school or college.
Did any of these iconoclasts know the difference between Grant and Robert E. Lee? Could they ...
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Universities Sowing the Seeds of Their Own Obsolescence
When mobs tore down a statue of Ulysses S. Grant and defaced a monument to African-American veterans of the Civil War, many people wondered whether the protesters had ever learned anything in high school or college.
Did any of these iconoclasts know the difference between Grant and Robert E. Lee? Could they ...
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A Data Double Take: Police Shootings
In a recent article, social scientist Patrick Ball revisited his and Kristian Lum’s 2015 study, which made a compelling argument for the underreporting of lethal police shootings by the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS). Lum and Ball’s study may be old, but it bears revisiting amid debates over the American ...
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A Data Double Take: Police Shootings
In a recent article, social scientist Patrick Ball revisited his and Kristian Lum’s 2015 study, which made a compelling argument for the underreporting of lethal police shootings by the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS). Lum and Ball’s study may be old, but it bears revisiting amid debates over the American ...
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Harvard to Implement Online Learning for All Students, Tuition Remains $50,000
Harvard University has announced it will implement online learning for all courses during the coming academic year, while tuition for the Ivy League school will remain about $50,000.
Up to 40 percent of undergraduate students will be cleared to live on campus this fall, including all incoming freshmen, ...
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Harvard to Implement Online Learning for All Students, Tuition Remains $50,000
Harvard University has announced it will implement online learning for all courses during the coming academic year, while tuition for the Ivy League school will remain about $50,000.
Up to 40 percent of undergraduate students will be cleared to live on campus this fall, including all incoming freshmen, ...
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How Many Jeffrey Epsteins Are There?
Goodman Brown was a young, pious man, from a family of “honest men and good Christians since the days of the martyrs,” when he first discovered that the society around him was full of evil hiding in plain sight. Brown, the main character of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s 1835 short story “Young Goodman Brown,” ...
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How Many Jeffrey Epsteins Are There?
Goodman Brown was a young, pious man, from a family of “honest men and good Christians since the days of the martyrs,” when he first discovered that the society around him was full of evil hiding in plain sight. Brown, the main character of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s 1835 short story “Young Goodman Brown,” ...
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How Long Will Margaret Sanger Last?
Much of the radical Left is at present consumed by a feverish desire to erase from U.S. history anyone whom they’ve deemed in some way insufficiently loyal to the progressive creed of 2020. The statue-toppling brigades have exercised little discretion in determining which of our leaders are no longer fit for ...
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How Long Will Margaret Sanger Last?
Much of the radical Left is at present consumed by a feverish desire to erase from U.S. history anyone whom they’ve deemed in some way insufficiently loyal to the progressive creed of 2020. The statue-toppling brigades have exercised little discretion in determining which of our leaders are no longer fit for ...
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The Audacity of a New Kind of Hope
‘Who are we?” “What are we here for?” These are some of the most fundamental questions of our lives. And they can lead to a bit of a crisis these days, as there is so much uncertainty. Those questions are about more than each one of us as an individual. As statues are being torn down, the question of who ...
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The Audacity of a New Kind of Hope
‘Who are we?” “What are we here for?” These are some of the most fundamental questions of our lives. And they can lead to a bit of a crisis these days, as there is so much uncertainty. Those questions are about more than each one of us as an individual. As statues are being torn down, the question of who ...
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