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miracle rescue

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jun/10/colombian-children-found-alive-five-weeks-after-amazon-jungle-plane-crash Malnourished and covered in insect bites, four Indigenous children were rescued alive from the #Colombian Amazon on Friday afternoon, 40 days after the plane they were travelling in crashed into the #jungle. In a remarkable feat of resilience, the children survived heavy storms in one of the most inhospitable parts of the country, home […]

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‘I’ve Been Cleaning Houses Professionally for Over 20 Years, and These Are the Filthiest Spots in Your Home’

Danielle Calma May 3, 2023 You clean your kitchen surfaces and bathroom floors, but when was the last time you thought to scrub your faucet heads or clean the dishwasher filter? These are among the dirtiest spaces in your home, but they often go uncleaned because people don’t know they need to be cleaned—or they

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‘Why Do You Still Have Lightning Bugs? Ours Are All Gone.’

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/17/opinion/mosquitoes-lawns-pesticides.html We’ve lost a few trees here over the decades, and our neighborhood has lost uncountably more. But there are still many trees in this yard. Every year we plant new saplings, and together the trees, old and young, make a sanctuary for us all, humans and lightning bugs alike. We leave the leaves where they

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Diversity trainings

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/17/opinion/dei-trainings-effective.html In the case of D.E.I., Dr. Dobbin and Dr. Kalev warn that diversity trainings that are mandatory, or that threaten dominant groups’ sense of belonging or make them feel blamed, may elicit negative backlash or exacerbate pre-existing biases. Many popular contemporary D.E.I. approaches meet these criteria. They often seem geared more toward sparking a

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MLK day

Martin Luther King, Jr., Day, in the United States, holiday (third Monday in January) honoring the achievements of Martin Luther King, Jr. The holiday is similar to holidays set under the Uniform Monday Holiday Act. King was a Baptist minister who advocated the use of nonviolent means to end racial segregation, he first came to

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CT radiation exposure increases brain cancer risk in children

By Kate Madden Yee, AuntMinnie.com staff writer December 12, 2022 — Radiation exposure from CT imaging increases brain cancer risk in children by up to fivefold, depending on the level of exposure, according to research published December 6 in the Lancet Oncology. The findings suggest that it’s crucial to track children’s radiation exposure from CT,

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EXCESSIVE ALCOHOL USE

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/13/well/mind/alcohol-health-effects.html Research published in November revealed that between 2015 and 2019, excessive #alcohol use resulted in roughly 140,000 deaths per year in the United States. About 40 percent of those deaths had acute causes, like car crashes, poisonings and homicides. But the majority were caused by chronic conditions attributed to alcohol, such as #liver disease,

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