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Alabama Public Radio is looking into why educated or skilled workers may leave the Gulf coast for other areas. A survey by the Alabama Commission on Higher Education shows low salaries are a key concern. One possible solution is a training program by Airbus. The European airplane builder has its North American manufacturing plant in Mobile. APR Gulf Coast Correspondent Guy Busby reports how Airbus may help keep young people in the area, while creating a home-grown workforce.

Some of the French volunteers who spent 40 days in a cave for science want to go back - team leader  May 05, 2021, 04:59 PM facebook Fred Scheiber/AFP via Getty Images 15 French volunteers emerged from a cave last month after spending 40 days with no external contact. The aim was to see how people behaved with no cues letting them know the time. Some of the volunteers loved it so much they would want to go back, the teams leader told Insider. Some of the volunteer...

Fifteen volunteers have emerged from a cave in the southwest of France after spending 40 days without clocks, phones, or sunlight for a human isolation experiment.

French volunteers who lived in a cave with no phones or sunlight for 40 days say it was great  Apr 25, 2021, 08:28 PM facebook email Volunteers leave the Lombrives cave after spending 40 days in the cave in Ussat-les-Bains, southern of France, on April 24, 2021. Fred Scheiber/AFP via Getty Images French volunteers have emerged from a cave after spending 40 days with no clocks or phones. They took part in the Deep Time project, which explored the limits of human is...

Nidal Eshtayeh/Xinhua/Getty Images Students sit in a classroom on the first day of the new school year at the Al-Amari refugee camp in the West Bank city of Ramallah, Palestine. For many teachers and students, 2020 started out with a sense of normalcy. But that quickly changed as the novel coronavirus began spreading around the world in the first few months of the year. In March, lockdowns forced schools to close, and families transformed their living rooms, bedrooms, and kitchens into makeshi...