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Commentary Newsday Tuesday 28 September 2021 - Part II STEPHEN MERRILL, writing for Edutopia hosted by the George Lucas Education Foundation in April, wrote with reference to the covid19 pandemic, “This crisis first exposed, and then cruelly amplified, the inequities bound up in issues of poverty, race, disability and rural…

Can’t see the audio player? Click here to listen. In 2004, 24-year-old Manny Lanza urgently needed surgery for a life-threatening brain condition. But he didn’t have insurance, so his hospital refused to schedule the treatment — until it was too late. Manny died waiting.  In the months that followed, Manny’s parents,…

Treatment with the urate precursor inosine did not result in a significant difference in the rate of clinical disease progression in early Parkinson's disease, the phase III SURE-PD3 trial showed. Clinical progression rates, measured by the Movement Disorder Society Unified Parkinson Disease Rating Scale (MDS-UPDRS) parts I-III, were not significantly…

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Scientists have known for decades that the particulate emissions from ships can have a dramatic effect on low-lying stratocumulus clouds above the ocean. In satellite images, parts of the Earth's oceans are streaked with bright white strips of clouds that correspond to shipping lanes. These artificially brightened clouds are a…

Scientists have known for decades that the particulate emissions from ships can have a dramatic effect on low-lying stratocumulus clouds above the ocean. In satellite images, parts of the Earth's oceans are streaked with bright white strips of clouds that correspond to shipping lanes. These artificially brightened clouds are a…

Letters to the Editor Newsday Tuesday 7 September 2021 THE EDITOR: Like a recurring decimal, I must once again ask whether the issue to be resolved with the firearms debate has been appropriately identified. Unfortunately, TT has moved tangentially to a focus on the grant of firearm user’s licences rather…

A novel liquid biopsy test has been shown to distinguish between patients with neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1) who have benign plexiform neurofibroma (PN) precursor lesions from patients who have malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumors (MPNST), say authors of a multi-institutional cross-sectional study. "Transformation from PN to MPNST is challenging to…

If your mouse cursor is too hard to see comortably, Windows 11 provides several ways to make it stand out. You can make the mouse pointer larger, invert it, or change its color. Here’s how. First, open Windows Settings. The quickest way is by pressing Windows+i on your keyboard. Or…

Fisherfolk oppose demolition of fish pens in Manila Bay, fear loss of livelihood Thousands of fisherfolk—already suffering from the COVID-19 crisis—are at risk of losing livelihood as the national government is set to demolish structures they have built for mussels and oysters farming in the Manila Bay. Members of fishers’…