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FORT WAYNE — Middle school students at schools in Northeast Indiana have showcased their future career dreams through an essay contest that earned them $100 awards and job shadow opportunities.

As the pandemic and lockdowns dragged on and on over the past year, most of us longed only for the day when the world would return to what it was before Covid-19 entered our vocabulary. For others, though, the months of seclusion led them to search for ways they might be able to make the world just a little better place than it was before. Here are a few ideas on improving your little part of the post-pandemic Earth that you could latch onto, or maybe you have some ideas of your own.

THE STANDARD DAVID OGINDE Positive pregnancy test. [Courtesy] A landmark law on abortion was signed in Texas, USA, this past Wednesday. In what may seem like a play of words, Governor Greg Abbott signed a law that would prohibit abortion from as early as six weeks of pregnancy. This was after it was scientifically shown a baby has viable heartbeats at six weeks. Pro-life movements have hailed the move as a breakthrough. Abortionists however argue that six weeks is before some women may even know they are pregnant. However, according to Governor Abbott, the Bill he signed into law was the out...

If you are looking for any silver linings – and they are hard to find – regarding the pandemic, one is the fact that casinos took a breath and evaluated

How someone talks is complicated. It depends on where they’re from, where they spent their formative years, if they moved around, and whether they’re consciously trying to alter how people perceive them. But beneath it all are the regional roots of a person’s speech—those patterns of pronunciation, shaped by long histories of settlement and migration, that can pin an individual down to a surprisingly small patch of the map. Despite this, however, for decades the study of American English left a big territory unexplored on the map. Even as researchers divided northern New Jersey from s...