Missouri Democratic congressional candidate Cori Bush gives her victory speech at her campaign office on August 4, 2020 in St. Louis, Missouri. Bush, an activist backed by the progressive group Justice Democrats, defeated 10-term incumbent Rep. William Lacy Clay (D-MO) in Tuesday’s primary election to become the first black woman elected to represent the state of Missouri in congress. (Photo: Michael B. Thomas/Getty Images)
Things are pretty bleak. The Trump administration is petering out in the most predictable way, screaming about a fictional election conspiracy and continuing to ignore a deadly pandemic. The United States is basically averaging a 9/11 every day at this point. I’m old enough to remember when people made a big deal about how they’d “never forget” the magnitude of that tragedy. Less than 20 years later, here we are. At the time I type this, there’s still no new stimulus deal. Almost 8 million people have fallen into poverty since June, the largest
December 17, 2020 at 11:00 am
In 2008, miners off the coast of Namibia stumbled upon buried treasure: a sunken Portuguese ship known as the
Bom Jesus, which went missing on its way to India in 1533. The trading ship bore a trove of gold and silver coins and other valuable materials. But to a team of archaeologists and biologists, the
Bom Jesus’ most precious cargo was a haul of more than 100 elephant tusks the largest archaeological cargo of African ivory ever discovered.
Genetic and chemical analyses have now traced those tusks back to several distinct herds of forest elephants that once roamed West Africa. “It is by far the most detailed and comprehensive attempt to source [archaeological] elephant ivory,” says Paul Lane, an archaeologist at the University of Cambridge not involved in the work.
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Sewanee: The University of the South finished the in-person portion of the fall semester with 16 positive cases among students.
The liberal arts college in Tennessee credits its relatively low case numbers to weekly required COVID testing for the approximately 1,600 students on campus combined with a “bubble” approach that largely prohibited students from leaving campus except for essential activities such as medical appointments. Students had to formally request approval from the dean of students office for any off-campus trips, and a student caught violating the rules by breaching the bubble and leaving the campus without permission, or hosting a guest from off campus, would have to leave campus to quarantine for two weeks and be retested before rejoining the bubble.
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In a truly unprecedented semester, full of losses, exhaustion and frustration, colleges learned more about how to keep students, staff and faculty safe amid the ongoing pandemic. While most colleges have not reached the frequency and magnitude of testing for COVID-19 that some experts recommend, it appears that levels of testing did increase over the course of the semester.
Only 22 percent of colleges surveyed for a recent report from the American College Health Association said they required students to be tested before arrival at the beginning of the semester. About 37 percent said they required testing at arrival.
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