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Reading dystopian fiction during the coronavirus pandemic: Genre’s prescience helps imagine a better future Meritocracy

Reading dystopian fiction during the coronavirus pandemic: Genre’s prescience helps imagine a better future

Read part 2 of this examination of the value of dystopian fiction here. “The solar disc was no longer a well-defined sphere, but a wide-expanding ellipse that fanned out the eastern horizon like a colossal fire-ball." Thus unfolds JG Ballard’s masterful 1962 novel The Drowned World, which is about a planet beset by…
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May 5, 2020
Trump to visit Arizona mask plant, Cinco de Mayo, Teacher Appreciation Day: 5 things to know Tuesday eSports

Trump to visit Arizona mask plant, Cinco de Mayo, Teacher Appreciation Day: 5 things to know Tuesday

Editors USA TODAYPublished 9:11 AM EDT May 5, 2020Trump to visit Arizona mask plant amid push to lift coronavirus restrictionsPresident Donald Trump will travel to Phoenix on Tuesday, leaving the confines of Washington for the first time in more than a month as the administration begins pushing states to ease coronavirus restrictions…
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May 5, 2020
Chinese swimmer Sun Yang lodges appeal at Swiss federal court to overturn eight-year ban, says report Doping Test

Chinese swimmer Sun Yang lodges appeal at Swiss federal court to overturn eight-year ban, says report

Banned Chinese swimmer Sun Yang has lodged an appeal at the Swiss federal court in a bid to overturn his eight-year suspension for doping, the Swimming World website reported on Tuesday. Sun was banned by the Switzerland-based Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) in March after the World Anti-Doping Agency…
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May 5, 2020