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Steven Adams on Living in NBA Bubble: ‘This Is Not Syria, It’s Not That Hard’ Syria

Steven Adams on Living in NBA Bubble: ‘This Is Not Syria, It’s Not That Hard’

Michael Dwyer/Associated PressDon't count Steven Adams among the NBA players who will be complaining about bubble life."Let's be clear: This is not Syria. It's not that hard ... We're living at a bloody resort," Adams told reporters Monday. "Everyone is going to complain, everyone has their own preferences, nothing too…
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July 20, 2020
The Terrible Consequences of Australia’s Uber-Bushfires Bushfire

The Terrible Consequences of Australia’s Uber-Bushfires

Australia’s apocalyptic bushfires earlier this year weren’t just unprecedented in their scale and ferocity—they weren’t even supposed to be possible yet. Over the past 20 years, the average percentage of Australia’s “temperate broadleaf and mixed” forests—lots of eucalyptus, basically—that burned each year was 1 percent. During the 2019-2020 fire season,…
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July 20, 2020
Battery Breakthrough to Give Flight to Electric Aircraft and Boost Long-Range Electric Cars Electric Car

Battery Breakthrough to Give Flight to Electric Aircraft and Boost Long-Range Electric Cars

Researchers at Berkeley Lab and Carnegie Mellon University have designed new solid electrolytes that light the path to wider electrification of transportation. Credit: Courtesy of Jinsoo Kim New battery technology developed at Berkeley Lab could give flight to electric aircraft and supercharge safe, long-range electric cars. In the pursuit of…
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July 20, 2020
Innovation at the core of COVID-19 response: If refugees can’t reach health services, health services will come to them Refugees

Innovation at the core of COVID-19 response: If refugees can’t reach health services, health services will come to them

WHO Turkey implementing Partner Doctors Worldwide Pelşin Ülgen, a psychosocial services expert from the Istanbul Refugee Health Training Centre For many refugees who have fled from war-torn Syria to Turkey, the European Union-funded Refugee Health Training Centres remain a vital access point to primary health care. But the Centres saw…
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July 20, 2020
Opinion: As football looks more and more unlikely, Europe shows us what could have been Hooliganism

Opinion: As football looks more and more unlikely, Europe shows us what could have been

Nancy Armour   | USA TODAY German soccer officials will gladly share their knowledge and experiences, even their medical protocols, with other sports that want to resume playing. The one thing they can’t share? A sound government strategy to contain the COVID-19 pandemic and communal buy-in of protective measures.As the chances of…
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July 20, 2020
New Ukraine central bank governor promises to maintain independence and rate cuts Ukraine

New Ukraine central bank governor promises to maintain independence and rate cuts

KYIV, July 20 (Reuters) - Ukraine’s new Central Bank Governor Kyrylo Shevchenko on Monday promised to maintain the independence of the central bank, continue interest rate cuts and cooperation with the International Monetary Fund. He was speaking alongside President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, who also stressed the central bank’s independence. Shevchenko was…
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July 20, 2020