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Entertainment |
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May 2020 |
| "[The 1938 movie] was fairly accurate for its day, although, in the end, paints a somewhat varnished perspective [of the yellow fever outbreak]." |
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Law & Justice |
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May 2020 |
| "While drunk driving deaths have fallen by half [in the last 40 years], it continues to kill more than 10,000 people a year and remains the No. 1 killer on our nation's roads. These aren't accidents. These are sudden, violent crimes." |
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Psychology |
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May 2020 |
| People usually are not big on slow changes, even those that accompany miracles. Friends advise one another sympathetically during difficult life passages, but no one enjoys those halting, faltering, falling-down baby steps. |
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Education |
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May 2020 |
| ". . . For a large number of colleges, the timing for the coronavirus could not be worse, because many schools--before we even knew what COVID-19 was--already were teetering on the brink as they tried to recover from an earlier financial crisis." |
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Education |
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May 2020 |
| "Just as students and faculty have developed strategies to learn and teach in traditional in-person settings, they will be able to adapt those strategies to online courses through trial, error, and open communication." |
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American Thought |
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May 2020 |
| ". . . It is quite disturbing to witness the eagerness among some governors to outdo one another by announcing shutdowns that extend beyond where anyone claims to know that shutdowns will be necessary." |
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Parting Thoughts |
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May 2020 |
| People deal with fear using the type of worry that jumps from subject to subject, never resting on a place long enough to find a solution or a bearable assessment of risk. It is a mental exercise of thought with a mild degree of emotional distress. |
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Economic Observer |
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May 2020 |
| A combination of uncertainty over when the shutdowns will end, a resulting loss of wealth, the speed and depth of the downturn, and the risk of a new outbreak without a vaccine all are factors affecting the economy bouncing back. |
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Back to Business |
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May 2020 |
| ". . . Not all jobs involve regular interaction with others, and some jobs might be more secure during a pandemic." |
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Business & Finance |
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May 2020 |
| "We cannot control everything that is happening around us, but we can control what we do in the face of it." |
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Science & Technology |
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May 2020 |
| "You wouldn't board an airplane that didn't have regular maintenance, but many buildings don't get an annual checkup." |
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Political Landscape |
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May 2020 |
| "Unless the U.S. radically changes the way we send, receive, and count mail-in ballots, a massive switch to postal voting . . .could lead to the true will of the electorate being nullified." |
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Dollars & Sense |
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May 2020 |
| The pandemic will plague the industry for years--and the airlines' unsustainable model, if not replaced, will require significant decades-long sacrifices by taxpayers, labor, consumers, and other stakeholders, while damaging tourism industry jobs. |
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Education |
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May 2020 |
| How what we know about summer learning loss can guide educators, districts, and parents during current school closures. |
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Medicine & Health |
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May 2020 |
| ". . . In the midst of the current opioid epidemic, many specialists believe the benefits of expanding lifesaving treatments, like methadone and buprenorphine, outweigh the diversion risks of these medications and suggest that they be deregulated." |
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Business & Finance |
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May 2020 |
| "For this recovery to be efficient . . .businesses that have been shuttered temporarily must survive and be ready to reopen once the immediate health threat has passed." |
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Worldwatcher |
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May 2020 |
| "The failure to plan and prepare for mass casualties risks people being buried in mass graves, with few records and little understanding of who died and where the bodies were taken," warns the International Committee of the Red Cross. |
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Eye on Ecology |
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May 2020 |
| NASA has released satellite imagery of reduced nitrogen dioxide--a major air pollutant linked to respiratory infections--in the atmosphere after stay-at-home measures were enacted. Worldwide carbon dioxide emissions are estimated to fall >5% this year. |
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National Affairs |
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May 2020 |
| ". . . Politicians suddenly find themselves not just experts in what market prices are, but what they should be." |
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Science & Technology |
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May 2020 |
| "We have to get an order-of-magnitude understanding of how many people have actually been infected. We really don't know if we've been 10 times off or 100 times off in terms of the cases." |
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Gone Shopping |
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May 2020 |
| "Small Businesses are struggling to survive this pandemic. Some already have closed their doors, not knowing if they will ever open them again." |
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Health Beat |
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May 2020 |
| "[A] new study aims to counteract the lack of data about the community spread of SARS-CoV-2 that has made the virus so challenging to combat." |
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Economics |
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May 2020 |
| In applying the insights of C.S. Lewis, the government's power of the purse under Medicare for All provides justification for a bureaucracy of 'omnipotent moral busibodies' who torment us for our own good without end. |
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Lifestyles Look |
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May 2020 |
| "Fire and water are all the rage right now for outdoor spaces. These elements not only take a space to the next level, they connect the space to its natural surroundings. Even in an urban setting, these elements add a sense of tranquility. . . ." |
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Political Landscape |
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May 2020 |
| America's discord and the coming crisis of the 2020s will lead to . . .remarkably . . .the triumph beyond. |
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Life In America |
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May 2020 |
| We cannot hand our lives over to the government, particularly when the virus has become an opportunity for Congress to pass pork-filled legislation, showboating governors to out-quarantine each other, and tech companies to share cell phone tracking. |
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Words & Images |
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May 2020 |
| "This pandemic has to become the opportunity to change the U.S. from a free, energetic, resourceful individualistic society to an authoritarian, collectivist society of broken souls addicted to government largesse." |
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Going Places |
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May 2020 |
| "The bottom line is this is not a time to look at the bottom line; it is a time to focus on establishing trust and highlighting benefits, as well as keeping current customers engaged and recruiting new ones." |
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Frontier Horizons |
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May 2020 |
| "We often ask children, 'What do you want to be when you grow up?' None of them-- and I mean none of them --say, 'I'd like to grow up to be a blind person.'" |
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National Affairs |
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May 2020 |
| "Bringing back our economy will not happen via some magical legislative sleight-of-hand. Recoveries that restore economic health take time, and this recovery, after an unprecedented shutdown, will take considerable patience and calm." |
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National Affairs |
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May 2020 |
| "A U.S. government strong enough to mobilize all of society's resources against all threats would compel us to depart from our founding traditions, and ultimately would threaten Americans' freedom and prosperity." |
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Public Policy |
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May 2020 |
| "Voters find policies with up-front prevention costs to be less attractive than more-expensive policies that pay large amounts after the fact." |
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