South Korea’s education ministry reported last Wednesday that the nation was allocating more than $110 million for the transition to long-term remote learning. The money primarily will go to transforming classrooms and standard textbooks into formats more conducive to the digital age. Choi Won-hwi, a leader in the government division that supervises educational instruction, told...
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COVID CASES DROP, SCHOOLS STILL PANIC
As Labor Day weekend ended, states across America reported a total of less than 25,000 new cases of the coronavirus, marking the smallest total in three months, while deaths from COVID-19 dropped to the lowest level since 20 July, according to the Wall Street Journal analysis of Johns Hopkins University research. Yet, COVID Fear and...
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IRISH: ON TIME, USE CLOCK TO EAT
To date, just under 2,000 people have died in Ireland from COVID-19 in a country of about five million or 0.03 percent. As in the U.K., France, and Spain, the Irish have seen a rise in coronavirus cases. How dramatic a spike? Last Tuesday, there were 30 new cases. But that tiny number was high...
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GREEN TIME, NOT SCREEN TIME, BOOSTS CHILDREN’S MENTAL HEALTH
Children’s and teens’ mental health varies according to the amount of time they spend outdoors versus in front of screens, according to new research from the University of Adelaide. The researchers reviewed 186 studies and found the more time young people spend in nature, the better their psychological health, while the more time spent staring...
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ARTIFICIAL PANCREAS MANAGES TYPE 1 DIABETES
Children born with type 1 diabetes can’t produce insulin from their pancreases to process sugar. Fewer than one in five of these children can manage their condition effectively. They’re subject to a lifetime of insulin injections, detailed dietary management, and a range of future health risks. But now clinical trials at four U.S. pediatric diabetes...
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GLOBAL ECONOMIC TRENDS
CHOPPY RECOVERY AHEAD, CANADA’S CENTRAL BANKS WARNS. Canada’s economy will show a surge of strength in this quarter, but the ensuing recovery will be slow and unsteady, the nation’s central bank has warned. Household spending was stronger than expected over the summer, presaging a more robust third quarter than analysts had forecast as consumers vent...
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THE MIGHTY WALKING STICK
There can be no doubt that the handgun is the ultimate weapon of self-defense. The ability to go legally armed with a handgun, however, is severely restricted in many cities. Thus, it is necessary for citizens who reside in urban areas where they cannot carry handguns look to other options for self-defense. Unarmed close combat...
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FEDERAL JUDGE RULES PENNSYLVANIA WOLF’S COVID RESTRICTIONS UNCONSTITUTIONAL
A federal judge appointed by President Trump ruled Monday that the coronavirus restrictions put into place by Governor Tom Wolf, the Pennsylvania Democrat, were unconstitutional, arbitrary, and overreaching. A lawyer for the plaintiffs in the suit, which included four Pennsylvania counties, said the ruling means statewide restrictions can no longer be enforced. U.S. District Judge...
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EUROPE: “SECOND WAVE” ANXIETY
After easing draconian COVID lockdown measures that were imposed in many countries across Europe this past winter and spring, with virus cases on the rise again, a number of countries are re-locking down. As noted by the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, the virus cases are overwhelmingly mild and hospitalizations and deaths linked...
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ERADICATION OF THE MIDDLE CLASS
Today, we are amid a destructive transpiring of events that will accelerate into the eradication of America’s middle class. For over a decade, the U.S. middle class has been robbed of TRILLIONS of dollars in wealth accumulation via the mechanism of suppressed rates by the Federal Reserve’s efforts to prop up the stock market. Because...