Kathie s Coffee creator honors her Cloquet mom who is fighting pancreatic cancer Through some good restaurant connections, this coffee for a cause was born. December 11, 2020 3:59pm Text size Copy shortlink:
Kym Jolstad has always been a doer.
When she was 12, her father was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. The preteen immediately participated in her first Walk MS to raise money for the National Multiple Sclerosis Society. She did the walk on more than a dozen occasions, raising thousands of dollars.
Last year, when Jolstad s mother, Kathie Kemi of Cloquet, Minn., was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, Jolstad once again sprang into action.
Washington: Not since World War II has a single phenomenon dominated the news worldwide as the COVID-19 pandemic has in 2020. In the United States, a tumultuous presidential election and a wave of protests over racial injustice also drew relentless coverage.
Overshadowed, to an extent, were other dramatic developments. Among them: an apocalyptic explosion in Beirut, the shocking helicopter-crash death of basketball icon Kobe Bryant and his daughter.
Some seemingly epic events early in the year now seem distant, like President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial and the January announcement by Prince Harry and Meghan Markle that they were exiting their prominent roles in Britain’s royal family. Just a few weeks later came the long-awaited Brexit, Britain’s formal withdrawal from the European Union.
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Three University of Pennsylvania researchers have been honored by The Sanford and Sue Greenberg Prize to End Blindness by 2020 for their research, which led to the first Food and Drug Administration-approved gene therapy for a genetic disease. Gustavo D. Aguirre of the School of Veterinary Medicine and Jean Bennett and Albert M. Maguire of the Perelman School of Medicine, together with William Hauswirth of the University of Florida, are recipients of the Outstanding Achievement Prize, awarded in a virtual ceremony.
The four scientists share a $1 million prize, funds that will go to support further laboratory and clinical research that advances vision science. Together, their work going from an animal model of disease to human clinical trials led to an FDA-approved gene therapy for Leber congenital amaurosis (LCA) caused by a mutation in the RPE65 gene, a retinal disease that causes visual impairments beginning in infancy. Now commercialized and used routinely, this treatme
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Yale law librarian s top 10 quotes of the year include 1 by Justice Ginsburg before her death
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
A quote attributed to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg before her death has made a top 10 list of quotes for the year compiled by Yale Law School law librarian Fred Shapiro.
Ginsburg’s granddaughter Clara Spera said Ginsburg dictated this message before she died in September: “My most fervent wish is that I will not be replaced until a new president is installed.”
The quote was No. 6 on the list that Shapiro compiles for the Associated Press, Law.com reports. President Donald Trump did not acquiesce; he quickly nominated Judge Amy Coney Barrett to fill Ginsburg’s seat on the Supreme Court.
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