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Washington, February 10 Coffee lovers, rejoice! The new three large, well-known heart disease studies circulated by the American Heart Association suggest that drinking one or more cups of caffeinate

Emily Solari is the coordinator and professor in the Reading Education program in the Department of Curriculum Instruction and Special Education. She received her PhD from University of California, Santa Barbara in Special Education, Disabilities, and Risk Studies with an emphasis in Human Development. Dr. Solari’s scholarship has focused on the prevalence, predictors, and underlying mechanisms that drive reading development with the ultimate goal of developing and testing the efficacy of tar...

Kadhimi forced to make ‘difficult’ decisions as crisis lingers The Iraqi prime minister’s office released a statement saying “the government will continue to make difficult decisions, regardless of the political repercussions, and despite the popular misunderstanding that may result.” Wednesday 10/02/2021 A 2020 file photo of Prime Minister of Iraq Mustafa al-Kadhimi speaking in Berlin. (AP) BAGHDAD – Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi pledged this week to continue making “...

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By Dian Schaffhauser 02/09/21 An international effort is setting out to come up with new ways to help educators and others measure the impact of play on learning and child development. According to the organizers, the tools will be "open source, user friendly, cost effective and designed to be adopted across contexts by local governments, researchers, civil society and other stakeholders." The focus will be on children aged zero to 12, and the toolkit will include resources to support training,...

What’s new? In February 2020, South Sudan’s two main belligerents began forming a unity government pursuant to a peace deal inked a year and a half earlier. But the pact is fragile, smaller conflicts are still ablaze and the threat of return to full-blown civil war remains.  Why does it matter? Forthcoming elections could test the peace deal severely. Looking further ahead, conflict will continue to plague South Sudan until its leaders forge a political system that distributes power mo...

The pandemic may be limiting Valentine's Day options this year... - Abington, PA - The pandemic may be limiting Valentine’s Day options this year, but that doesn’t mean we can’t share our favorite date night spots in the Abington area. When you’re looking for the perfect place for a first date, anniversary or Valentine’s Day, where do you go?

...People walk along the National Mall and the U.S. Capitol in Washington Feb. 8, 2021. (CNS photo/Tyler Orsburn) ...The U.S. Capitol is seen in Washington Jan. 28, 2021, behind steel fencing topped with razor wire. (CNS photo/Leah Millis, Reuters) ...Members of the House of Representatives are seen at the U.S. Capitol in Washington Jan. 6, 2021, hours after police quelled the violence carried out by rioters wh...

‘You witness to our society,’ archbishop tells social ministers Posted Archbishop José H. Gomez of Los Angeles, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, celebrates the opening Mass of the 2021 Catholic Social Ministry Gathering from the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels in Los Angeles Feb. 6. (CNS screen grab/CSMG live-stream) By Mark Pattison Catholic News Service WASHINGTON (CNS) — “You witness to our society,” Archbishop José H. Gomez of Los Angeles, preside...

 E-Mail A team of researchers at New York University will develop new methods and tools aimed at minimizing systemic biases and producing more equitable public policy impacts on such areas as city housing inspections, policing, and courts. Under a $1 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) and Amazon, Computer Science Professor Daniel B. Neill will lead the three-year research project centered on the growing use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) by urban public sector organizati...