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A new snapshot of America’s changing population is providing new fodder in the ongoing debate about whether state and local taxes or, in some cases, the lack of them make a person move from one place to another.
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According to initial results from the 2020 Census, 331.4 million people now live in America. The 7.4% population increase from 2010 was powered mostly by population growth in the South and West, where the growth rates were 10.2% and 9.2%, respectively.
By contrast, the Northeast experienced 4.1% growth, and the Midwest had a 3.1% growth rate.
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Arjun Bhatt gets his hair cut by Dean Shore during the annual Pirates Vs. Cancer fundraiser on ECU’s Health Sciences Campus. | Photos: Cliff Hollis
The COVID-19 pandemic presented a host of challenges for the student organizers of the annual Pirates Vs. Cancer fundraiser this year, but they remained undaunted and still managed to raise more than $13,000 for local pediatric cancer patients.
On Friday afternoon, the popular event during which people have their heads shaved or hair cut for charity returned to ECU s Health Sciences Campus Student Center, but with some noticeable differences.
Zoe Roth, Face behind the “Disaster Girl” Meme, Sells Meme for $500,000 in Online Auction By Pablo Luna / Saturday, 01 May 2021 06:57PM
Zoe Roth, a 21-year-old girl whose photo as a 4-year-old child has taken the internet as a meme storm has earned $500,000 from the sale of the photo. The photo which has come to be known as the “Disaster Girl” shows Zoe grinning at a camera in front of a burning house.
Although the meme has gained notoriety worldwide, and it has been modified several times to portray suffering and disaster, no one knows the name of the 4-year-old girl in the photo until the recent auctioning that fetched half a million dollars.
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Scientists are warning that drinking water supplies in parts of rural West Africa are being contaminated by lead-containing materials used in small community water systems such as boreholes with handpumps and public taps.
They analysed scrapings taken from the plumbing of 61 community water supply systems in Ghana, Mali and Niger. Eighty percent of the tested systems had at least one component that contained lead in excess of international guidance.
Lead is released into the water when the components corrode.
The study, by a research team from the University of Leeds, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Boston University, also took samples of the water from those 61 water distribution systems, and from a further 200 taps and boreholes with handpumps.
Shady Grove Fertility (SGF) Carries on the Jones Institute Legacy of Innovation and Excellence by Opening SGF Jones Institute, and Welcomes Tarita Pakrashi, M.D., M.P.H.
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Hampton Roads region residents looking to build their families now have increased access to highly specialized fertility care complete with state-of-the-art laboratory and procedure center.
SGF Jones Institute will open in the Norfolk location of the EVMS Jones Institute on July 7, 2021, with Tarita Pakrashi, M.D., M.P.H., on board.
“The historical significance of SGF becoming affiliated with the Jones institute is nothing short of remarkable. The Joneses are legends in our field, and we are humbled and honored to be a part of this landmark partnership that will benefit individuals and couples for years and decades to come.”