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PostPandemic: Even in a post-pandemic world, will we ever again feel comfortable shaking a hand or kissing a cheek?

Julie Hinds Detroit Free Press There is a wonderful close-up photo of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. speaking from a podium, holding on to it firmly as if he is leaning in to the enormous task ahead. of him. In the new book “That They Lived: African Americans Who Changed the World,” that photo is paired with a portrait of Rochelle Riley’s grandson, Caleb, then 8, who is wearing a similar suit and tie and copying the civil rights icon's pose with an intensity beyond his years. “When he did Martin Luther King and he just got right to the edge of the podium and did it, we were j...

Neighborly Experiences Unprecedented Network Growth in 2020, Plans for Continued Expansion in 2021 News provided by Share this article WACO, Texas, Feb. 9, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Neighborly ®, the world's largest franchisor of home service brands, ended 2020 strong with 382 new franchise agreements awarded, setting new records for signed agreements in three quarters and achieving the company's first franchise development trifecta since 2018 with number of units, revenue and EBITDA goals all surpassed in fourth quarter. Between these impressive franchise development milestones and the organiza...

‘The end of the beginning.’ The dark winter is here and Americans see no end To the 28-year-old high school teacher, the expectation of a return to relative normalcy that came with mass coronavirus vaccination efforts is fading fast. “There was that sense of hope and then, all of a sudden — I’m not saying that it’s been dashed — but it feels like everything is still up in the air,” said the public school teacher, who asked that his name not be used. “No matter how much we want it to end … there’s still so much we don’t know,” he said of the pandemic.

Alyssa L. Miller / Creative Commons Yale University's Dr. Nicholas Christakis explores what it means to live in a time of pandemic. He looks at historical epidemics and current medical and social research to help us understand the potential long-term impact COVID-19 will have on people and culture.  Greek mythology holds that the arrows of plague Apollo shot down upon the Greeks led to great death and suffering. The plague that has brought death and pain over this past year was not brought by an angry god, but an infinitesimal virus that has wreaked global havoc and exposed the best ...