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Shoot for the Moon: A Conversation with Apollo 13 Commander Jim Lovell Moon Mission

Shoot for the Moon: A Conversation with Apollo 13 Commander Jim Lovell

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April 13, 2020
Western Wall Priestly Blessing Has Only 10 Worshipers, Including U.S. Envoy Jerusalem Controversy

Western Wall Priestly Blessing Has Only 10 Worshipers, Including U.S. Envoy

JERUSALEM – The traditional priestly blessing of the Passover holiday occurred at the Western Wall in Jerusalem’s Old City on Sunday morning with only 10 worshipers present, including U.S. ambassador to Israel David Friedman, in keeping with the coronavirus restrictions.On the second intermediate day of the festivals of Passover and…
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April 13, 2020
Trip Report: Singapore Airlines Business Class SQ878 B787-10 – SIN to TPE (Singapore to Taipei) Singapore

Trip Report: Singapore Airlines Business Class SQ878 B787-10 – SIN to TPE (Singapore to Taipei)

Airline: Singapore Airlines | Aircraft: 787-10 | Class: Business | Flight: SQ878 (SIN-TPE)When I visited Taipei last month, I did not realise that it would be my last trip in a while. Non-essential travel (essentially personal trips that I love to take over weekends) is no longer possible due to the spread of the COVID-19…
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April 13, 2020
Lack of Internet Access in Southeast Asia Poses Challenges for Students to Study Online Amid COVID-19 Pandemic Computers in School

Lack of Internet Access in Southeast Asia Poses Challenges for Students to Study Online Amid COVID-19 Pandemic

— By Nuurrianti Jalli Governments and companies across the world have responded to the COVID-19 pandemic with cancellations of public events and closures of offices, restaurants, museums, schools and universities to avoid masses from gathering as the highly contagious pneumonia-like disease can spread from one person to another. As of…
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April 13, 2020
Israel’s coronavirus death toll exceeds 100, including former Chief Rabbi Bakshi-Doron Jerusalem Controversy

Israel’s coronavirus death toll exceeds 100, including former Chief Rabbi Bakshi-Doron

This article is no longer being updated. Follow our live updates here. As the highly contagious coronavirus spreads around the world, Israel and the Palestinians struggle to contain a local outbreak that has virtually halted daily life and led to tens of thousands of people entering quarantine. ■ 12,591 Israelis have…
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April 13, 2020
COVID-19 | An opportunity to shift the focus from megacities to small towns Protectionism

COVID-19 | An opportunity to shift the focus from megacities to small towns

Somya Mathur, Badri Narayanan Gopalakrishnan and Upmanyu Bhardwaj A pathogen has the power to reboot the massive economies from an era of globalisation to that of regionalism, protectionism, scepticism and localisation. The COVID-19 outbreak has also given a peek into the vulnerabilities of global economic order.As nearly half of the…
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April 13, 2020
Donovan: ‘I waited to see if Greta Thunberg’s generation would have their own songwriters’ Nuclear Disarmament

Donovan: ‘I waited to see if Greta Thunberg’s generation would have their own songwriters’

Donovan, born Donovan Phillips Leitch in Scotland in 1946, was famous enough before he was 18 for the world to be on first-name terms with him. You don’t have to be a boomer to remember Mellow Yellow, although it may help if you want to remember his famous stand-off with…
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April 13, 2020