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“Glen, is that you?” The frail-looking woman lying in the hospital bed beside a dim light said to the man at her bedside. He had been hoping she would wake up and talk to him; it had been a few days since she seemed strong enough. “No, honey, I’m Ellis. Glen’s father. Don’t you remember me?” “I don’t …
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Refugiados sírios en Rio de Janeiro. Wikimedia Commons. The Global Compact for Migration should foster a common understanding on the main causes that force people to leave their countries of origin, and how to mitigate them. The document also provides protection and guarantees for the rights of those who migrate, as well as the need …
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Theologian, playwright, and novelist G.K. Chesterton inspired a slew of 20th-century personalities including C.S. Lewis, George Bernard Shaw, and even Mahatma Gandhi. His criticism and writings on Catholicism were matched, in sum, by his detective stories that featured the recurring sleuth Father Brown and the criminal Flambeau. In “The Flying Stars,” an improvisational parlor game …
It was too early to eat ice cream when I pulled into Velvet Cream, better known locally as “The Dip,” in Hernando, Mississippi. But I had some anyway. Because at 29 years, 10 months, and 23 days, I had made it to my 50th state, just under the wire of my 30th birthday. It felt …
Trespassing Forbidden, Military Zone. Wikimedia Commons. All Rights Reserved. There was a time when thinking in terms of the National Security Doctrine was the thing to do, now it's the National Insecurity Doctrine. According to this new creed, the enemy today is a network of interconnected actors who operate domestically as part of a global …
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Click:全国楼凤论坛 On May 9, Ginai Seabron made history at her university. The 22-year-old from Richmond became the very first black person to ever graduate with a degree in nanoscience at Virginia Tech. She is also the only black nanoscientist in the state of Virginia, according to an NBC News affiliate report. When the school informed …
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Riding the rails on a vintage train may be the ultimate joy ride, an irresistible combination of adventure, history, and romance. America’s scenic railroads curve through wine country, back country, mountains, and river valleys. You never know what’s around the bend, but on these seven lines, count on something spectacular. While you can usually get …
After dark on Saturday night one could stand on the first tee of the golf course and see the country club windows as a yellow expanse over a very black and wavy ocean. The waves of this ocean, so to speak, were the heads of many curious caddies, a few of the more ingenious chauffeurs, …
Traditionally, clothing and beauty lines have always defined light-skin-toned undergarments as “nude.” So, unless you look like Gwyneth Paltrow, it was nearly impossible to find a nude-colored garment that matched your skin tone. The idea that nude only applied to fair-skinned people is one of many ways that people of color have been marginalized by the fashion industry. …
