(2022-08-28). Want to End the Teacher Shortage? Start Valuing Education. commondreams.org Too many lawmakers are happy to dole out subsidies for the rich and corporations while resisting pay increases for educators.
(2022-08-28). Mayo Clinic Minute: Helping your child with back-to-school anxiety. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Most kids are eager for the last day of school and the start of summer vacation. But this time of year, there are many students who might not look forward to returning to the classroom, in part because of separation anxiety. Watch: The Mayo Clinic Minute youtu.be/C_wvC0NAgy8 Journalists: Broadcast-quality video (1: 07) is in the downloads at the end of this post. Please courtesy: "Mayo Clinic News Network." Read the script. By the time the first…
(2022-08-28). Science Saturday: Mayo innovation, research at forefront of World War II victory. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org A photograph taken from the air of "G-Whiz," the Mayo Clinic Dauntless Dive Bomber plane used for testing the G-suit and other innovations. If you watched "Top Gun: Maverick" this summer, you saw a fictional portrayal of how fighter pilots can perform incredible aerial maneuvers at high G-forces, or the force of gravity. Here's the story about the role Mayo Clinic had in enabling pilots to reach those heights and possibly win a war. In…
(2022-08-28). National Institutes of Health renews Mayo Clinic's $48 million Clinical and Translational Science Award. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org ROCHESTER, Minn. — Mayo Clinic announced today that its Center for Clinical and Translational Science has successfully renewed funding for its research grant from the National Institutes of Health National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences for five more years. The funding award, totaling $48.2 million, is one of Mayo's largest NIH grants, supporting research and education across the institution at that aims to accelerate innovation to improve patient care and health for all people. "We…
(2022-08-28). We Can Do So Much More on Student Loan Forgiveness. indybay.org Education should be free…
(2022-08-28). Top 100 Chinese brands reach 1.24 trln USD in overall value in 2022: report. ecns.cn The total value of the top 100 Chinese brands surpassed the 1-trillion-U.S. dollar threshold for the second consecutive year and reached 1.24 trillion dollars in 2022, according to a report released by the international market research firm, Kantar, on Thursday.
(2022-08-28). Mayo Clinic Minute: The 3 best ways to keep kids healthy when heading back to school. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Making sure kids are prepared to head back to school means more than just getting them the school supplies they need. Caregivers also will want to make sure their students are on track to have a healthy school year and help them avoid many viral illnesses that tend to circulate when young people gather in classrooms and day care facilities.In this Mayo Clinic Minute, Dr. Nipunie Rajapakse, a pediatric infectious diseases specialist at Mayo Clinic's Children's…
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(2022-08-27). 5 Ways to Teach About Structural Racism in Polarized Times. commondreams.org Use a solutionary approach to turn controversy into learning and action.
(2022-08-27). Ignorant and Stupid Politicians Committed to Nuclear War: The Unthinkable: "Money and Mistakes" are the Driving Force behind World History. globalresearch.ca Nuclear War against both China and Russia is contemplated: | "At no point since the first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima on August 6th, 1945, has humanity been closer to the unthinkable. All the safeguards of the Cold War …
(2022-08-27). An All Out "No Nuclear War Appeal" to the Leaders of the Nine Nuclear Weapon States. globalresearch.ca This article was first published on August 28, 2020 | *** | Initiative of the No War No NATO Campaign: | We, the people of good will, of all walks of life, living on all continents and professing different creeds and religions, direct …
(2022-08-27). Iran non-oil exports exceed $44bn in current administration. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Aug. 27 (MNA) — Statistics showed that Iran's non-oil exports value from August 23, 2021 to June 21, 2022 topped $44 billion, showing a hike as compared to the same period of last year.
(2022-08-27). The Terrifying Research Nuclear Powers Don't Want You To See. popularresistance.org Humanity is, according to United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, "just one misunderstanding, one miscalculation away from nuclear annihilation." The warning , made at the Tenth Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, arrives at a time of alarmingly heightened tensions around the world. Just a few days after Guterres made that statement, Nature Food published a harrowing scientific paper that drove home the UN Secretary General's message: "Global food insecurity and famine from the reduced crop, marine fishery and livestock production due to climate d…
(2022-08-27). Haiti: Beware of Washington's Trap! orinocotribune.com By Berthony Dupont — Aug 24, 2022 | The United States uses its puppet, the Organization of American States, to continue destabilizing Haiti. | The Haitian political crisis is a concrete example of cynical manipulation by the imperialist powers. Is it an examination of conscience that the Organization of American States (OAS) has just carried out, when in the last Communiqué of the General Secretariat on Haiti, it acknowledged that the international presence in Haiti was only a "strategy of erroneous policy"? | What compelled the hemispheric organization to make such revelations? "The last 20 years of the in…
(2022-08-27). Contra Costa County Educators move towards a potential strike over pay and class sizes. wsws.org Potential strike of 90 teachers, who educate students with mental and physical disabilities, after working in unsafe conditions for months.
(2022-08-27). Assad on Nazism and the Empire of Lies. marktaliano.net Read more: Western-supported Nazism, Money-Laundering and Attacks on Real Journalism/ Report by Tara Reade Nazi Atrocities at Odessa — 8 Years On Global ResearchGlobal Research Centre for Research on Globalization…
(2022-08-27). The Congressional Research Service Suggests Continuing The Carrot-And-Stick Approach To India. oneworld.press This schizophrenic policy shows that the US still doesn't respect India as the international equal that it is under international law but instead considers it to be a vassal-in-waiting that its policymakers are convinced will inevitably submit to their unipolar hegemony if they just continue pressuring it.
(2022-08-27). Teachers Suspect Mayor Tried To Fire Them For Opposing New Scrapyard. popularresistance.org Chicago, Illinois – In late July, Lauren Bianchi and Chuck Stark, two teachers at George Washington High School on the Southeast Side of Chicago, were on the verge of losing their jobs. In what Chicago Teachers Union officers suspect was an act of retaliation from Mayor Lori Lightfoot, Chicago Public Schools recommended that Bianchi and Stark be fired for their involvement in the student-, teacher-, and community-led effort to stop the relocation of the General Iron metal shredder from the wealthy Northside neighborhood of Lincoln Park to a site half a mile from their school. With the union and their community be…
(2022-08-27). HKUST scientists identify key blood protein for simpler treatment for Alzheimer's disease. ecns.cn The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) on Thursday announced the identification of a blood protein vital in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease (AD), paving the way for a simpler treatment of the neurodegenerative illness.
(2022-08-27). New defense systems to be joined Air Defense Combat Org. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Aug. 27 (MNA) — The Head of the Army's Air Defense Research and Self-Sufficiency Jihad Organization said that new sophisticated defense systems will be joined the Army Air Defense Combat Organization.
(2022-08-27). Kent School District teachers strike for pay rise, smaller class sizes. wsws.org Teachers at Kent Public Schools have launched a strike with overwhelming public support to struggle against inadequate wages, unmanageable class sizes, worsening school and living conditions, and the mass spread of COVID-19.
(2022-08-27). Severance: Employees undergo surgery to separate work and home life. wsws.org Employees at a mysterious technology and pharmaceutical corporation have their memories severed to divide their work and personal lives in this science-fiction meets dark-comedy thriller.
(2022-08-27). Chinese Company Ships Crude From Venezuela, Defying US Sanctions. orinocotribune.com China has entrusted a defense-focused state firm to ship Venezuelan crude oil, in a clear defiance of US sanctions against Venezuela. | Since November 2020, China Aerospace Science and Industry Corp (CASIC) has been in charge of transporting millions of barrels of Venezuelan oil as part of a deal to offset Caracas' debt to Beijing. This was reported as an exclusive by British news agency Startin…
(2022-08-27). Conversaciones con Fidel Castro: Los Peligros de una Guerra Nuclear. globalizacion.ca 
Nota Introductoria | A partir del 12 de octubre de 2010 hasta el día 15 del mismo mes, sostuve amplias y detalladas conversaciones con Fidel Castro en La Habana relacionadas con los peligros de una guerra nuclear, la crisis económica mundial …