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The Daily Universe Many students are dealing with loss of motivation and focus because of online school during the pandemic leading to a feeling called “languishing.” (Addie Blacker) As a student in her golden years of college, the pandemic has left me feeling quite stuck. I keep making plans to accomplish my dreams but COVID-19 keeps getting in the way. I have never struggled with depression or anxiety before and have always been a very positive, optimistic person. But suddenly during...

The Atlantic The Atlantic Daily: Why Millennials Can’t Grow Up As the oldest hit 40 (and the youngest turn 25), their experiences are fragmenting by race and class. Then: How much credence should Americans give to the lab-leak hypothesis? The Atlantic Every weekday evening, our editors guide you through the biggest stories of the day, help you discover new ideas, and surprise you with moments of delight. Subscribe to get this delivered to your inbox. Millennials risk becoming a lost generatio...

Inside the Hotel du Cap, The South Of France’s Legendary Celebrity Getaway “From Marlene Dietrich to Madonna, the hotel has [always] been a home away from home for the super-famous.” Author: Slim Aarons, from Hotel du Cap-Eden-Roc: A Timeless Legend on the French Riviera, Flammarion, 2021 For a century and a half, the Hotel du Cap, on the southern-most tip of Cap d’Antibes on France’s Côte d’Azur, has been the preferred playground for iconic figures of every decade—“fr...

Hackerspaid $5M The Colonial Pipeline crisis is, of course, a reminder of the vulnerability of our aging physical infrastructures to cyberattacks, some of them by such governmental enemies as Putin’s Russia, others by criminal gangs working with the knowledge and cooperation of such dictatorships, be they Russia, China, North Korea or Iran (all of whom work in varying degrees to weaken the West.)   The Colonial mess, exacerbated by panic buying in some places, which has caused gas stations i...

Moonlight Drive Shakes Up Women’s Fiction Readers with Inspiring Rock n Roll Love Story Set during the decadent 1980s rock music scene, this A.R. Hadley novel engages readers with themes of love and redemption. BriefingWire.com, 5/15/2021 - DAYTONA BEACH, Fla.—Author A.R. Hadley released her new novel, Moonlight Drive, this week. This work of womens fiction enthralls readers with a challenging and compelling love story set in the decade...

World War I remembrance and a forgotten Macomb song The McDonough County Voice The establishment of a new World War I memorial park in Washington, D.C. has once again brought that controversial conflict to national attention. The Great War (as it has been called) was also discussed several years ago, in 2017, on the 100th anniversary of American involvement in that war, which left about 8.5 million soldiers dead, from various countries—including some 116,500 Americans. (Millions of European c...

1 May 2021 • 5:00pm The Thiepval Commonwealth Memorial, which commemorates British and Commonwealth soldiers killed in the 1916 Somme Offensive  Credit: Francois Mori / POOL / AFP Could the First World War have been brought to a negotiated peace before the armistice of November 1918? Could the Armageddon on the Western Front possibly have been ended without victory on either side in late 1916 or early 1917, and the Great Powers return to peace, with millions of young lives saved? In other wo...

Students & Covid in Greece : “Tell me where this ends” In Greece a lockdown has been in force since early November and universities are closed since February 2020. The so-called “Gen Z”, who had endured a 10-year economic crisis has been renamed “generation Covid” or even “quarantine generation”, reports Kostas Zafeiropoulos in Athens. Published on 29 April 2021 at 16:51 Bohemian Rhapsody Mama, Ι just killed a man. Ι didn’t stay inside in bed, I walked past him, now he’s ...

In this bi-weekly series reviewing classic science fiction and fantasy books, Alan Brown looks at the front lines and frontiers of the field; books about soldiers and spacers, scientists and engineers, explorers and adventurers. Stories full of what Shakespeare used to refer to as “alarums and excursions”: battles, chases, clashes, and the stuff of excitement. It might seem counterintuitive, but there are many books about warfare that take a comedic approach. This is probably rooted in the ...

A word of advice to anyone preparing for post-vaccination, “real-world” social interaction again: practice your dinner party small talk. I learned this the hard way last week at a small, intimate dinner at CytyByrd, a cafe inside the Salt Lake City and County Building. It had been a long time since most of us mingled with strangers, and a lot of us didn’t quite know what to do with ourselves less than six feet apart. (Well, at least I didn’t.) Some of the guests were having less of a ha...