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At times it seems to be largely a battle between reactionary liberalism and reactive conservatism. Such liberalism circles the wagons to defend existing government programs from challenges (e.g., public education against school-choice voucher programs) or even modest revision (e.g., partial privatization of Social Security). Such conservatism contents itself with moderating enrichments of the entitlement menu (e.g., prescription drugs under Medicare), nibbling at the edges of government’s failures (e.g., Bush’s halfhearted school-choice proposal) and sticking with failures even as evidence against them accumulates (e....

Researchers now think such stories will become more and more common. According to a study published late last month in the journal Science, the real culprit behind much of the rise in infectious diseases around the world may be rising temperatures. Drew Harvell, a biologist at Cornell University, and Andy Dobson, an ecologist at Princeton, surveyed new disease outbreaks and correlated them to data on warming trends. Their report catalogs more than 50 outbreaks that coincided with a rise in temperature....

1. Samsung Galaxy M01 Core The Samsung Galaxy M01 Core is a budget smartphone that runs on the Android 10 – Go Edition. Featuring a quad-core MediaTek MT6739 SoC paired with 1GB/2GB RAM, a 5.3-inch Infinity-V display, and a 16GB/32GB storage space expandable up to 512GB. There is also an 8MP rear camera sensor, a 5MP selfie camera sensor and the battery is 3000mAh battery. The display is at 5.3 inches 720 x 1480 pixels, 18....

Not surprisingly, the people who helped create “Confessions” insist they have nothing to apologize for. Robert Morgenthau, the Manhattan district attorney who turned over the initial confession tapes after a friend at Court TV asked for them, says he’s unconcerned that they’re being used for a profitmaking TV show. “My position is that anything that’s a matter of public record, the media or anybody else is entitled to,” Morgenthau says....

At a time like that, people seek the company of nature because, after all, we are a part of it and things have a tendency to lean towards their roots. The Indian state of Madhya Pradesh is one such root. The inherent natural beauty of the region is as picturesque as it gets. It is a true paradise for the seekers of peace, a sanctuary for the lost to find themselves....

The heroine is a “journalist,” but we never see her at work. Here, complete, is the tale of her interviewing Lt. William Calley about My Lai: “The interview with him had been brief, and in some ways very painful.” And after 26 of these novels, Steel can’t write a sex scene. “She responded to him as she never had to anyone,” goes a typically soft-focus passage. “Everything was different with him....

Working mothers are nothing new in the corporate world. But Governor Mom will be a test case of how well a female elected official can juggle work and family. Swift has dropped some balls before. As lieutenant governor she used state employees to baby-sit her daughter, took a state helicopter to fly home for Thanksgiving and accepted a cushy $25,000 teaching gig at a local university (money’s tight since her husband gave up his job to watch their daughter)....

Nearly 50 years later, Coleman is still in the thick of the fight. But this time, she’s president of the University of Michigan and writing the rule book on how to foster diversity. Last June, Michigan won its own landmark case when the Supreme Court upheld its affirmative-action policy for admitting students to its law school. However, the court struck down Michigan’s undergrad admissions process, which, unlike the law school, awarded extra points to minorities to give them an edge....

Only 14 months after Intel rolled out its Pentium Pro processor, the company has done it again: introduced, gads, yet another chip. This new one is a Pentium processor souped up to better run “media-rich” programs, like graphics-intense games and video, up to four times faster. New machines with the MMX logo are already in stores. But MMX isn’t just flash: the new chip helps multimedia applications work more smoothly and also boosts overall performance by 10 to 20 percent....

It is being launched to coincide with the 2020 Red Bull Rubik’s World Cup, the first digital speedcubing competition. Thanks to Covid-19 most in-person mass gatherings are on hold for the foreeable future, so Red Bull is hosting the brand-new online tournament. But with an analogue piece of equipment like a Rubik’s Cube as the competing hardware, Rubik’s has had to develop a new version. The Connected Cube does will go on pre-order from 18 August at the exclusive price of $49....

Now we do. Last week in the journal Nature, White’s team announced that three skulls–from a man, a child and an adult of uncertain gender, from Afar in Ethiopia–dated to the same era as African Eve’s, making them the oldest known Homo sapiens fossils. They look entirely modern, though subtle differences earned them the subspecies name idaltu (“elder”). The skulls demolish the notion that humans evolved on several continents, interbreeding with Neanderthals, and support the “only in Africa” theory....

In this guide, we’ll cover how to get started with OBS Studio, how to set up a stream with source layers, and how to start your first Twitch stream. How to Install OBS Studio OBS Studio is available for Windows PC, Mac, and Linux and can be downloaded for free from the official website. Visit the OBS Studio website and select Download. Select the download option that matches your operating system: Windows, Mac, or Linux....

That would give the government something it sorely needs – a live witness who can describe some of the planning for the worst terrorist attack in U.S. history, and possibly give some insight on the perpetrators’ beliefs and motives as well. Although McVeigh, as this week’s NEWSWEEK interview reveals, has turned out to be a cagey suspect, there is every reason to believe the Feds have charged the right man in the bombing....

While Randolph bridles at the criticism heaped almost reflexively on young blacks, she doesn’t blink at what her fifth graders face along South State Street. The housing projects are overrun by gang members. Families are fractured. Drug dealers fire their weapons for terror and sport. But that’s old news; her job is building a new world, even if that means getting between two girls fighting in a hallway. It was the kind of challenge her DePaul instructors had told her to expect....

The logic as to why a conservative and not a liberal is probably to blame for the leak stems first from our knowledge that Chief Justice Roberts was, at the time of the leak, still trying to convince at least one other member of the conservative majority to support a more measured decision that would not have overtly overruled Roe but that would have upheld Mississippi’s 15 week abortion ban....

Thankfully the series managed to find its footing in the third episode. Everything began to settle in, and the story finally found the perfect balance between romance and comedy while moving the story forward at the same time. So can this fourth episode keep the momentum going? RELATED: Spring 2022 Preview: A Couple of Cuckoos Previously On A Couple of Cuckoos Nagi and Erika are forced to live together in the same house by their parents....

The developer, Behvaiour Interactive, seems to have trademarked the title “Hooked on You: A Dead by Daylight Dating Sim”. Yes, this is not a hoax. There’s even an official page for the trademark on the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) site. It was filed on February 16, 2022. Dead by Daylight + dating sim = odd combo For those unaware, Dead by Daylight is a survival horror multiplayer title....

People who work or live in buildings with water damage sometimes complain of “black mold” or “toxic mold.” Instead of the mold is toxic, it’s more likely the mold is causing allergies. Mold typically grows in homes that experience water damage. Importantly, buildings with water damage have been shown to be linked to sick building syndrome, which causes nonspecific symptoms such as fever, fatigue, and nausea. What Is Mold? The term “mold” refers to multicellular fungi which grow as a mat composed of intertwined microscopic filaments....