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A strange phenomenon has just been uncovered by observers of the college applications scene: Based on reports from college admissions officers, it appears that some affluent parents who can well afford to pay full tuition as well as room & board, are adopting the strategy of giving up custody...

Two thousand subjects 70 years of age and older were followed for five years to see whether their level of activity in 5 areas--reading books, computer use, social activities, playing games, craft activities)—was associated with differences in mental functioning. The results showed that hig...

Arturo Casadevall, chair of molecular microbiology and immunology at the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health and his colleagues just issued a report on a deadly fungus, Candida auris, that kills approximately 30% of infected people.

C. auris first appeared in humans in 2009, with ...

Extreme income inequality is at the root of the anti-China protests in Hong Kong. Hong Kong represents perhaps the developed world’s most extreme case of income inequality. Rents in Hong Kong are even higher than rent paid by denizens in New York City and San Francisco. And, given that the ...

The Chinese communist regime’s explanation for the Hong Kong riots during the summer of 2019 is that “Black Hand” of U.S. provocateurs is at work. These are baseless accusations characteristic of autocratic regimes that have caused the social upheavals themselves.

In H...

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has taken a first step towards weakening the 1973 Endangered Species Act.

The new regulations will make it much easier to remove species from the Endangered Species list, and current wildlife on the threatened species list (one step down from En...

New efforts by President Trump and his staff to question or undermine the established science of climate change have created a widening rift between the White House on one side, and scientific facts, government agencies, and some leading figures in the president’s own party on the other. Th...

The full role of white women in slavery has long been one of the “slave trade’s best-kept secrets.” “They Were Her Property,” a taut and cogent corrective, by Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers

By Jim Robbins

February 19, 2019

Biologists are searching caves and abandoned mines in the West, hoping to spare many species of the winged creatures from the devastating fungus, white-nose syndrome.

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