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WHO Reverses Course, Endorses Masks to Fight COVID-19 0
- Politics
- April 7, 2020
The World Health Organization now supports the public wearing of masks to prevent the spread of coronavirus. That’s a reversal of its earlier position, reports the South China Morning Post: The World Health Organisation says it supports government initiatives that require or encourage the public wearing of masks, marking a major shift from previous advice amid
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Crying Over Dumped Milk 0
- Economics
- April 6, 2020
Frustrated shoppers have reason to cry over spilled milk. Dairy farmers are dumping millions of gallons of the stuff. Meanwhile, some dairy products are sold out at many grocery stores across the country, due to intense demand for basic household goods amid the coronavirus crisis. USA Today reports on one farm in Wisconsin: “About 7
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Social Distancing Tips From Robinson Crusoe 0
- Culture
- April 6, 2020
He survived the last great plague in London and the city’s Great Fire. He was imprisoned and persecuted for his religious and political views. There was no happy ending for the journalist Daniel Defoe, author of “A Journal of a Plague Year.” When he died in 1731, he was mired in debt and hiding from
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C.S. Lewis on Avoiding the Prayers the Devil Likes 0
- Culture
- April 6, 2020
Holy Week 2019 started like no other with the horrific burning of Notre Dame Cathedral. Holy Week 2020 will be a bit less sensational than its predecessor, but nonetheless, different from anything we’ve ever seen. President Trump acknowledged this in his Palm Sunday coronavirus update, saying: “We may be apart… but we can use this
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China May Be Using COVID to Its Advantage 0
- International
- April 6, 2020
Can it be that after systematically lying to the world for months about the Wuhan coronavirus – about its existence, about its transmission, about its lethality – that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) thinks it can turn this worldwide pandemic to its advantage? Yes. And here’s how. First, China has to rewrite its role in
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School’s Out and It’s Time to Revamp Education 0
- Education
- April 6, 2020
This past weekend, I watched the original version of Red Dawn, the movie about a joint Soviet, Cuban, and Nicaraguan invasion of the United States. A group of teenagers escape to the mountains and resist these invaders. After their first skirmish in which they kill three Russian soldiers, a girl seated by the fire says, “Things
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