Tue 16 February 2021: Basketball legend Michael Jordan is donating $10 million to launch two medical clinics in underserved communities near his hometown in North Carolina, a regional health care system announced Monday. The clinics, which are planned to open in 2022, will provide health services for people who do not have any or adequate […]
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Mon 15 February 2021: Pet dogs are far more likely to play with one another when their owner is present and being attentive, according to a new study, raising the intriguing possibility that they are putting on a show for their owners’ benefit. That our canine companions are keenly attuned to the level of interest […]
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Sun 14 February 2021: An ancient high-production beer factory, possibly the oldest ever discovered, has been unearthed in Egypt, the country’s antiquities ministry said. Researchers pinpointed the site in Abydos, an ancient city located in the desert roughly seven miles west of the Nile River, according to the Egyptian government. Mostafa Waziri, secretary general of […]
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Sat 13 February 2021: It is the classic romantic combination: St. Valentine’s Day in Paris, the city of love, and a gift of red roses. But some Parisian florists are trying to wean customers off the flowers because of their ecological cost. Most roses sold in France in the run-up to St. Valentine’s Day, a peak […]
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Fri 12 February 2021: All the COVID-causing virus circulating in the world right now could easily fit inside a single cola can, according to a calculation by a British mathematician whose sum exposes just how much devastation is caused by minuscule viral particles. Using global rates of new infections with the pandemic disease, coupled with […]
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Tue 09 February 2021: For a small retailer, an empty store can quickly mean an empty bank account. How can a small retail store drive more foot traffic? Here are 50 ideas to try. Spruce up your store sign. Make sure your sign is in good repair (lights working, paint fresh), clearly visible, and easy […]
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Tue 09 February 2021: The US Supreme Court has turned down a claim filed by heirs of Jewish dealers who allege that their families were forced by the Nazis to sell the Guelph Treasure in the 1930s, artnet news has reported. The Guelph Treasure is a collection of medieval devotional objects now valued at upwards of $250 million. In […]
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Mon 08 February 2021: A woman was arrested in Kerala’s Palakkad district for allegedly hacking to death her six-year-old son as a ‘sacrifice to God’, police said today. The woman later called the police and narrated the incident, following which she was arrested, police officials said. Shahida, who is pregnant with fourth child, killed her […]
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Mon 08 February 2021: A teenager who is emerging from a 10-month long coma has no knowledge of the coronavirus pandemic despite having caught the disease twice. Joseph Flavill, 19, suffered a traumatic brain injury when he was hit by the car in the central English town of Burton-on-Trent on March 1 last year, about […]
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Sun 07 February 2021: A meteorologist in the US Navy was pleasantly surprised to recover a wallet he had lost 53 years ago in Antarctica. In October 1967, Paul Grisham shipped out to Antarctica, where he worked as a weather forecaster for a science station and airport on Ross Island. Thirteen months later, he returned […]
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