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Suddenly losing your hair? The culprit could be your prescription medications By Cynthia E. Keen at AARP Like turning gray, hair loss can be a natural part of aging. But alopecia, the medical term for hair loss, is a complex condition with many variations, from slow-progressing balding (referred to as male- or female-pattern hair loss) to more rapid…

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President Biden revealed the first full-color image taken by NASA’s $10 billion James Webb Space Telescope, which can capture the highest quality and most detailed pictures of space of any telescope ever built. The telescope snapped the sharpest and deepest picture of our universe to date, showing a mess of galaxies that no human has seen before.…

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This day in history: ‘Disco Demolition Night’ On this day in 1979, nearly 50,000 people packed Comiskey Park on the southwest side of Chicago to watch local DJ and notorious disco hater Steve Dahl blow up a bunch of disco records in between a White Sox doubleheader. “Disco Demolition Night” remains one of the seminal…

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Houston, Tx The Children’s Museum of Houston 1500 Binz, Houston, TX 77004 713-522-1138 Houston Museum of Natural Science 5555 Hermann Park Dr., Houston, TX 77030 713-639-4629 The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, The Caroline Wiess Law Building, 1001 Bissonnet St. The Audrey Jones Beck Building, 5601 Main St., Houston, TX 77005 713-639-7300 South Carolina Columbia…

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Sift together 2 cups flour, 1 cup sugar, 2 heaping teaspoons baking powder, a tiny pinch of salt, and 2 tiny pinches of baking soda. Set aside. In a microwave-safe bowl or measuring cup, melt 1 stick of unsalted butter. Add 1 cup of milk, 1 large or extra-large egg, and 1 teaspoon vanilla paste…

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Kate Daniels/ Ilona Andrews Parable Series/Octavia Butler Brown Sisters/Talia Hibbert Benjamin January/Barbara Hambly Sookie Stackhouse/Charlaine Harris Jack Reacher/Lee Child (and Andrew Child) Elouise Norton/Rachel Howzell Hall Mercy Thompson/Patricia Briggs Gabriel Allon/Daniel Silva Broken Earth Trilogy/ N K Jemisin Ladies No. 1 Detective Agency/Alexander McCall Smith Easy Rollins/Walter Mosley Chief Inspector Gamache/Louise Penny Anita Blake/ Laurell…

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The sovereign citizen movement is a loose grouping of primarily American litigants, activists, tax protesters, financial scheme promoters, and conspiracy theorists, who claim to be answerable only to their particular interpretations of the common law and to not be subject to any government statutes or proceedings unless they consent to them. The sovereign citizen movement is one of the main contemporary…

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By Harry Bruinius  Staff writer, Christian Science Monitor June 24, 2022 In a 6-3 majority ruling on Friday, the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, the 1973 decision giving women the right to abortion. In anticipation of the ruling last week, the Monitor interviewed Geoffrey R. Stone, author of the legal history “Sex and the Constitution.”…

Read More A history of American thought on abortion: It’s not what you think