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U.S. Army soldiers board a bus in January 2020 at Fort Bragg, N.C., one of the military bases that will likely see population boosts in their 2020 census counts due to a change to how troops deployed abroad were counted. Chris Seward/AP
Tens of thousands of U.S. service members who were temporarily deployed abroad last year could help shift the balance of power in Congress and the Electoral College toward states with military installations after the release of 2020 census results.
Approximately 97,000 troops were serving stints overseas on Census Day April 1, 2020 Pentagon spokesperson Lisa Lawrence tells NPR. And for last year s national tally, the Census Bureau followed a new policy that counted those deployed troops as residents of the areas from which they were assigned away.
Jacob Venditti is enjoying life again thanks to medication to treat cystic fibrosis
Breakthrough medication helps man resume his favorite activity By Jon Evans | April 22, 2021 at 4:45 PM EDT - Updated April 22 at 8:06 PM
WILMINGTON, N.C. (WECT) - Jacob Venditti’s life has changed dramatically in the past 18 months. If you look at him now, cruising on a skateboard inside an empty cement pool, you wouldn’t know the depths his physical and mental condition reached in 2019, when cystic fibrosis had diminished his lung capacity to 30 percent.
“There was four times when I was admitted to the hospital, with complications between them,” he said during an interview with WECT in December 2019. “I had pneumonia twice. My ankles were swelling up out of nowhere, I couldn’t walk around. That was really scary. Stomach pains that were awful. I was going to emergency room for random things like that. There were moments where I definitely felt like I didn’t want to get out of b
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Greek life is losing members. Here’s why.
From racist slurs to classism, three students share the reasons why they left or dismantled their fraternities and sororities.
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The cliquishness, classism, and racial insensitivities of Greek life have never exactly been hidden.
So it’s no surprise that the racial justice protests in summer 2020 combined with a pandemic affecting all college students has sparked a new wave of anti-Greek sentiment over the past year.
But instead of concerned parents or annoyed neighbors bringing attention to the dangers of fraternities and sororities, it’s
college students who have been at the forefront of the call to abolish them. Students are quick to point out that these are institutions