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The Rev. Dr. Kejuane Artez Bates was a big man with big responsibilities. The arrival of the novel coronavirus in Vidalia, Louisiana, was another burden on a body already breaking under the load. Bates was in his 10th year with the Vidalia Police Department, assigned as a resource officer to the upper elementary school. But with classrooms indefinitely closed, he was back on patrol duty and, like most people in those early days of the pandemic, unprotected by a mask. On Friday, March 20, he was coughing and his nose was bleeding. The next day, he couldn’t get out of bed.
21 DECEMBER 2020
Close your eyes. What colour is a river? The perfect blue we can see in our imagination is not usually reflected in reality, where rivers can run green, brown, yellow, and more.
These different hues are not superficial. The colour of rivers reflects the health of natural waterways, which means simply looking at a river can give us an idea of how its water is faring in terms of things like pollution, sediment, and algae.
But while people have been judging water quality in rivers based on their colour for untold generations, scientists haven t widely used river colour itself as a visual proxy for gauging the health of macro-scale river networks – which could be a missed opportunity, researchers think.
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University of North Carolina Suspends Three Frats Linked to Drug Bust
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill campus. Photo: unc.edu
December 22, 2020
In the latest update to the North Carolina college drug bust, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC) suspended three fraternities discovered to have been linked to the case. Federal prosecutors say the frats were behind the supply of large amounts of drugs into three college campuses.
UNC Chancellor
Kevin Guskeiwicz said the results of the investigation led the university to take “swift action” against behavior that he believes poses a threat to students and public health. UNC’s recognition of Phi Gamma Delta, Kappa Sigma, and Beta Theta Pi fraternities has been suspended “due to the alleged activity cited in the ongoing investigation.”
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