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February 19, 2021
When Paige Huntington of the East Texas town of Jefferson and a graduate student at the University of Texas Health Science Center in Tyler, was crowned National Watermelon Queen at the National Watermelon Convention in February 2020 after a year as Texas Watermelon Queen, it was with the expectation that she would, like her predecessors, spend the year making personal appearances across the country promoting watermelons.
Paige Huntington
Then COVID-19 intervened.
“Over the past year, we have had to adapt our roles in the industry to meet the social requirements of today’s society due to the global pandemic,” said Huntington. “We have had to become solution-based thinkers and come up with different ways to promote our favorite fruit since we aren’t able to do things such as in store promotions and marathons.”
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Steven Bean and Raaga Vemula, both doctors-in-training, met in 2015 before starting medical school. She was amazing and beautiful and then finally, I worked up the courage to talk to her, Bean said. She is literally the most pure-heartedest person I ve met in my life. I literally think she s an angel.
Six years later, both are now working as medical residents nearly two hours away from one another Bean at UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas and Vemula at the University of Texas Health Science Center in Tyler.
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Too Much Light at Night May Raise Odds for Thyroid Cancer
By Cara Murez and Ernie Mundell
HealthDay Reporters
WEDNESDAY, Feb. 10, 2021 (HealthDay News) Though living in a bustling urban area may have its upside, all those nighttime lights could come at a price to your health, new research suggests.
The study, published online recently in
Cancer, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Cancer Society, ties an overabundance of nighttime artificial light with an elevated risk of thyroid cancer. It builds on earlier studies that found an association between higher satellite-measured levels of nighttime light and an elevated breast cancer risk.