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Year: 2022

  • Prof Patty
  • April 14, 2022April 14, 2022

Slideshow: A Visual Guide to Cataracts

 Medically Reviewed by Whitney Seltman, OD on June 15, 2020 A cataract is a progressive, painless clouding of the natural, internal lens of the eye. Cataracts block light, makin

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  • Prof Patty
  • April 14, 2022April 14, 2022

5 Best Jeans to Flatter and Fit Any Woman’s Body Type

Here’s where to get them and how much they cost. By Kim Marcum Jeans are to Americans what the beret is to the French and the thong to Brazilians. They define us. They unite us. They speak t

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  • Prof Patty
  • April 14, 2022April 14, 2022

Mental Health Among African American Women

Erica Martin Richards, M.D., Ph.D. It’s true that everyone experiences temporary periods of sadness, and times of worry and nervousness. But what about when those feelings won’t go away? Too of

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  • Prof Patty
  • April 14, 2022April 14, 2022

Weird sounds and smells in your home you should never ignore

Updated Dec 3, 2021  By Francesa Singer Weird smells and strange noises are a part of life. The problem is that when those smells and sounds happen inside your home, they can mean trouble. And th

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  • Prof Patty
  • April 14, 2022April 14, 2022

Your Feelings Are No Excuse

Acclaimed novelist, essayist, and poet Margaret Atwood was awarded the 2022 Hitchens Prize. Her full remarks from the Prize ceremony can be read on The Atlantic’s website

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  • Prof Patty
  • April 14, 2022April 14, 2022

Serena Williams: What my life-threatening experience taught me about giving birth

By Serena Williams I almost died after giving birth to my daughter, Olympia. Yet I consider myself fortunate. While I had a pretty easy pregnancy, my daughter was born by emergency C-section a

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  • Prof Patty
  • April 4, 2022April 4, 2022

What’s On My Reading List (2/22)

A Sunlit Weapon: A Novel (Maisie Dobbs, 17) by Jacqueline Winspear The Choice: The Dragon Heart Legacy, Book 3 (The Dragon Heart Legacy, 3) by Nora Roberts Goliath by Tochi Onyebuchi Black Cake by

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  • Kintsugi
  • April 4, 2022April 4, 2022

Perspectives on Ukraine

The Economist Brookings The Guardian Center for American Progress Wall Street Journal Council on Foreign Relations The New Yorker Cato New Republic Bloomberg (video) Foreign policy think tanks

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  • Kintsugi
  • April 4, 2022April 4, 2022

If You Have This in Your Wallet, It Could Be Hurting Your Credit Score

By Lynnette Khalfani-Cox March 25, 2022 Credit cards can be handy financial tools that build your credit score and tide you over in emergencies. But as life changes, so do your credit nee

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  • Kintsugi
  • April 4, 2022April 4, 2022

Turkey Meatloaf

Ingredients 1 tablespoon olive oil 1 large onion, chopped (1 1/2 cups) 2 garlic cloves, minced ¾ teaspoon salt, divided ½ teaspoon pepper, divided 1 ½ tablespoons Worcestershire sauce ⅓ cup

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  • Kintsugi
  • April 4, 2022April 4, 2022

What White Men Say in Our Absence

By Elaine Hsieh Chou When I graduated from college, I moved to Taipei to teach ESL. One afternoon on the train, I overheard two white men discussing Asian women with an unfiltered openness ach

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  • Kintsugi
  • April 4, 2022April 4, 2022

Prayer’s immediate impact

Is prayer effective in the face of conflict? A military veteran explores how acknowledging everyone’s God-given ability to value and do good can make a real difference in hostile situations. Marc

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  • Kintsugi
  • April 4, 2022April 4, 2022

Sweet Pineapple Casserole

TOTAL TIME: Prep: 10 min. Bake: 1-1/4 hours YIELD: 10-12 servings. Ingredients 2 large eggs, beaten 2 cans (20 ounces each) unsweetened crushed pineapple, undrained 1 cup sugar 1/4 c

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  • Kintsugi
  • April 4, 2022April 4, 2022

These are the 20 most common passwords leaked on the dark web — make sure none of them are yours

By Tom Huddleston Jr. Lookout, which makes cloud security apps for mobile devices, noted in a December blog post that, on average, 80% of consumers have had their emails leaked onto the d

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  • Kintsugi
  • April 4, 2022April 4, 2022

Three Black soldiers executed by Confederates are finally being honored in Virginia

By Gillian Brockell “We captured three Negro soldiers, the first we had seen,” Private Byrd Willis wrote on May 8, 1864. “They were taken out on the road side and shot and their bodies l

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NY Times

  • Zelensky to Meet With European Leaders as Ukraine Peace Talks Drag On
  • Thailand Launches Airstrikes on Cambodia in New Wave of Violence
  • Trump Hosts the Kennedy Center Honors, Breaking Tradition
  • United Nations Cuts Its 2026 Emergency Aid Budget in Half
  • Dogs in Kimonos: Japan Reinvents a Children’s Holiday With Pets in Mind

NPR

  • Hunters encouraged to trade lead bullets for copper to protect scavenging animals
  • Light from satellites will ruin majority of some space telescope images, study says
  • Elephant seals remember their enemies
  • This High Arctic rhino may change what we know about ancient animal migrations
  • Your glitchy video calls may make people mistrust you

The Progressive

  • The Education Experiment Gone Wrong
  • Go Tell It on the Mountain: Genocide is Wrong
  • Trump’s War on ‘Narcoterrorism’ Is a Smokescreen
  • In ‘Wicked,’ and in Life, Politics Is Messy Business
  • A Quiet Revolution Is Improving Schools

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FactCheck.org

  • Vaccine Panel, Voting to Change Hepatitis B Shot for Newborns, Shares Misleading Information
  • Pentagon Inspector General Report Not ‘Total Exoneration’ for Hegseth
  • Examining Trump’s Pardon of Former Honduran President Convicted of Trafficking Drugs to U.S.
  • Unpacking the FDA’s Black Friday Vaccine Memo
  • Q&A on Vetting of Accused National Guard Shooter

Snopes.com

  • Chart linking Democrat-led cities to higher violent crime is misleading
  • Did Bette Midler declare $68M Netflix investment on live TV?
  • 15 rumors about Erika Kirk, investigated
  • Rumor claims California law requires kids up to 16 to use booster seats. That's mostly false
  • Pete Hegseth's tattoos have raised eyebrows. Here's what we know about their meaning

Tradeoffs

  • A New Kind of Primary Care Comes to America
  • One Economist’s Plan to Blow Up America’s Health Insurance System
  • Homeless Camp Sweeps Can Harm Health. Some Cities Are Trying a New Way.
  • Rising Costs, Fewer Choices: What’s Up with Medicare Drug Plans?
  • The Quiet Cuts Making ACA Enrollment Harder

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