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Reflections on the Extraordinary Life of Sheldon Adelson | Opinion Matt Brooks
, Executive director, Republican Jewish Coalition On 1/15/21 at 5:30 AM EST
Horatio Alger wrote rags-to-riches stories in the 1800s about poor boys who became wealthy through pluck, luck and good deeds. Sheldon Adelson did him one better, actually living a rags-to-riches story rooted in hard work, vision, courage and good deeds. With Sheldon s passing, we have lost not only a remarkably successful business leader and an extraordinary philanthropist, but someone I was privileged to call a dear mentor and friend.
It is well known that Sheldon came from humble beginnings, as the child of immigrants living in Boston s Dorchester neighborhood. More than 80 years later, he still viewed the world through the eyes of a poor kid from Dorchester. As one of the richest men in America, he could afford the finest wines and any luxury foods he desired. But those who knew him knew that the best ti
Sheldon Adelson, who was as famous for the hundreds of millions he donated to the Republican Party as he was for his luxury hotels, casinos and convention centers on the Las Vegas Strip, died Monday after a battle with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma.
Fluidigm s FDA-EUA Authorized Saliva-based SARS-CoV-2 RT-PCR Assay - Now for use in India ANI | Updated: Dec 24, 2020 17:27 IST
New Delhi [India], December 24 (ANI/NewsVoir): It s been a year now since the first few human cases of COVID-19 infection were reported amidst the busy wholesale food market of China s Wuhan city. The disease caused by SARS-CoV-2 virus, thought to have its origin in Bats, soon spread to cause worldwide outbreaks & escalated to a global pandemic. The latest statistics indicate 46.5 Million cases reported to date worldwide with the global mortality rate around 2.5% and India ranking second at 8.23M cases till date.
COVID-19 has brought with it the need for SARS-CoV-2 tracking, surveillance & diagnosis. Countries that adopted testing strategies early on were able to test, track & isolate individuals that showed disease symptoms & hence were better able to contain the disease spread. While antibody testing was initially