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The fire burned for four straight days, scorching thousands of acres in the foothills north of Boise. Hundreds of homes were evacuated. Flooding and mudslides threatened the city in the aftermath of the blaze.  This year marks 25 years since the Eighth Street Fire, yet key lessons learned during that time inform how wildfires are fought and planned for even today. That fire forced a reckoning. It was a transformative event. For the past year and half, we have been living through another transformative event — one that will surely impact our lives for the next quarter-century and beyond. T...

Palace admits it ‘must do more’ to improve ethnic diversity among staff Buckingham Palace (PA) Buckingham Palace has published its figures on its levels of ethnic minority staff for the first time as it admitted it “must do more” and is “not where it would like to be” in terms of diversity. The Duke and Duchess of Sussex accused the royal family of racism in their Oprah Winfrey interview last year. Following the bombshell allegations, the royal household has revealed in its annual financial accounts for 2020-2021 that its proportion of ethnic minority employees stands at just 8.5%...

06/16/21 Online student support became a key issue for higher education institutions during the COVID-19 pandemic. Their top priority: providing academic support services such as tutoring or academic advising, according to the 2021 Changing Landscape of Online Education (CHLOE) report. CHLOE is an annual survey of chief online officers about the structure and organization of online learning in United States higher education, conducted by Quality Matters and Eduventures Research. The 2021 survey polled representatives from 422 U.S. colleges and universities, drilling down into the impact of th...

June 5, 2021, 1:50 p.m. ET Credit...Illustration by Giacomo Gambineri Mr. Issenberg the author of “The Engagement: America’s Quarter-Century Struggle Over Same-Sex Marriage.” Anyone looking to understand how same-sex marriage went from legal in one state to the law of the land a decade later should not overlook the small crowd that gathered outside San Diego’s Manchester Grand Hyatt hotel just past noon one Friday in July 2008, holding signs that said, “The Hyatt of hypocrisy.” Those present had been rallied by a retired Republican political operative named Fred ...

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