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In a single year, Covid-19 became a leading cause of death in the United States, rivaling heart disease and cancer, and has driven life expectancy down sharply.

New York Times Service February 23, 2021 WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden urged the nation Monday night to “resist becoming numb to the sorrow” that the novel coronavirus had inflicted, marking the staggering milestone of more than a half-million Americans dead from the pandemic in a solemn ceremony at the White House. The country passed the grim toll around 5 p.m., and bells began tolling at the National Cathedral, resounding across a capital with flags lowered to half-staff. About an hour later, Biden appeared in the Cross Hall of the White House and pulled a card from his jacket pock...

Chuck Haga: Reading and remembering 'good winter' Recalling frosty window panes, inside-out mittens and sledding helps get through the blandness of winter during a global pandemic. Written By: Chuck Haga | × Chuck Haga is a columnist for the Grand Forks Herald. (Eric Hylden/Grand Forks Herald) Winter grinds on. The best of you find brilliant, creative ways to cope, including memoir – recalling in wonderful, evocative detail how things used to be, including winter. Like many of you, I’m trying to read my way through the pandemic, filling the indoor aloneness with the compa...

  [This unedited press release is made available courtesy of Gamasutra and its partnership with notable game PR-related resource Games Press.] FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE REDWOOD CITY – February 11, 2021 – HR GAMES brings the Noble Armada Board Game experience to consoles. Noble Armada: Lost Worlds is a strategy XBOX ONE ® title based on the Noble Armada miniatures game. Set in the Fading Suns Universe, where the suns themselves are dying, humanity battles to revive its lost greatness, or just take what is left. The five great Royal Houses dominate human space as they battle each other for co...

Curious boy who turned into a leading scientist '); PROFESSOR Richard Fortey has never been afraid to get his hands dirty. From selling maggots at his father’s tackle shop to digging up fossils on school fieldwork trips, the award-winning palaeontologist, television presenter and author developed his lifelong love of nature in childhood. Now the 75-year-old is sharing the story of how his formative years helped him to reach the top of his field, including posts at the universities of Oxford and Bristol. Prof Fortey’s ninth book, A Curious Boy: The Making of a Scientist, which is release...