#Teacher at posh NJ prep school quits over critical race theory

#Teacher at posh NJ prep school quits over critical race theory

“#Teacher at posh NJ prep school quits over critical race theory” An English teacher has resigned from a top New Jersey prep school that is using critical race theory to create a “hostile culture of conformity and fear” — causing white and male students to believe they are “oppressors,” she said. Dana Stangel-Plowe accused the Dwight-Englewood School…

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#US has withdrawn over half of its forces from Afghanistan

#US has withdrawn over half of its forces from Afghanistan

“#US has withdrawn over half of its forces from Afghanistan” The US has withdrawn more than 50 percent of its forces from Afghanistan, the Pentagon estimated Tuesday. The announcement came from US Central Command, which estimated that it had “completed greater than 50 percent of the entire retrograde process.” Specifically, the Pentagon said it had “retrograded…

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#24,000-year-old, frozen ‘zombie’ worms brought back to life

#24,000-year-old, frozen ‘zombie’ worms brought back to life

“#24,000-year-old, frozen ‘zombie’ worms brought back to life” This might make you squirm. Russian scientists have resurrected “zombie” worms that had been frozen for 24,000 years in the Arctic. The microscopic, multicellular animals — called bdelloid rotifers — have inhabited freshwater environments for some 50 million years. Other studies on rotifers have shown that the…

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#Two-year-old found dead at Harlem homeless shelter

#Two-year-old found dead at Harlem homeless shelter

“#Two-year-old found dead at Harlem homeless shelter” A 2-year-old girl was found dead inside a homeless shelter in Harlem, police said Tuesday. The toddler, identified as Mariya Huebler, was found unconscious and unresponsive just before 11:45 p.m. Monday at 30 Hamilton Place in Hamilton Heights, cops said. The shelter is run by nonprofit Help USA…

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#Inside the 1991 Clio Awards debacle, 30 years on

#Inside the 1991 Clio Awards debacle, 30 years on

“#Inside the 1991 Clio Awards debacle, 30 years on” On June 13, 1991, the prestigious Clio Awards for excellence in the advertising industry was a night to remember – for all the wrong reasons. Unlike the dignified affairs of previous years, the banquet at New York’s Manhattan Center studios descended into what journalist Trip Gabriel…

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#New dinosaur species discovered in Australia

#New dinosaur species discovered in Australia

“#New dinosaur species discovered in Australia” Scientists have confirmed the discovery of a new dinosaur species in Australia, one of the largest found in the world, more than a decade after cattle farmers first uncovered bones of the animal. The plant-eating sauropod lived in the Cretaceous period between 92 million and 96 million years ago…

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#When vaccines and re-emergence were just as daunting

#When vaccines and re-emergence were just as daunting

“#When vaccines and re-emergence were just as daunting” CINCINNATI — The COVID-19 pandemic and the distribution of the vaccines that will prevent it have surfaced haunting memories for Americans who lived through an earlier time when the country was swept by a virus that, for so long, appeared to have no cure or way to…

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#Scientists saving endangered salmon with CRISPR

#Scientists saving endangered salmon with CRISPR

“#Scientists saving endangered salmon with CRISPR” ANTIOCH, California, June 7 – A gene-editing tool that has led to new cancer therapies and a rapid test for COVID-19 is now helping scientists find endangered species of salmon in the San Francisco Bay. The CRISPR-based Sherlock tool can identify four types of Chinook salmon, including Sacramento winter-run and Central Valley spring-run, which are both protected under the federal Endangered Species Act. “The…

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