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Roger Kligler, of North Falmouth and a co-chair of the Cape Cod Action Team of Compassion & Choices, spoke from a doctor’s perspective.

Yuan Longping, whose hybrid rice helped feed the world, dies at 90 Harrison Smith © Chinatopix/AP Rice researcher Yuan Longping, at center in 2017, in a field of hybrid rice in northern China. Yuan Longping, a Chinese scientist who developed strains of hybrid high-yield rice that helped alleviate famine and poverty around the world, enabling farmers to feed a growing planet with fewer resources, died May 22 at a hospital in Changsha, China. He was 90. The cause was multiple organ failure, according to the state-run People’s Daily newspaper. Mr. Yuan had been hospita...

Panel 1 Description: Since the 2020 outbreak of COVID-19, thousands of acts of anti-Asian hate incidents have been reported throughout the United States alone. Acts of physical violence and racism on Asians and people of Asian descent have spread globally as the virus itself spreads. These incidents connect to a long history of anti-Asian racism that has been supported by laws, institutions and representations, along with a long history of resistance by Asian Americans in solidarity with other communities of color. The September 23rd panel at the University of Massachusetts Amherst presented ...