New York Times, By John Tierney, June 30, 1996
PIXABAY image AS THEY PUT ON PLASTIC GLOVES FOR THEIR first litter hunt, the third graders knew what to expect. They knew their garbage. It was part of their science curriculum at Bridges Elementary, a public school on West 17th Street in Manhattan. They had learned the Three R’s — Reduce, Reuse, Recycle — and discussed how to stop their parents from using paper plates. For Earth Day they had read a Scholastic science publication, “Inside the World of Trash.” For homework, they had kept garbage diaries and drawn color-coded charts of their families’ trash. So they were primed for the field experiment on this May afternoon.
“We have to help the earth,” Natasha Newman explained as she and her classmates dashed around the school collecting specimens. Their science teacher, Linnette Aponte, mediated disputes — “I saw that gum wrapper first!” — and supervised the subsequent analysis of data back in the classroom. The students gathered around to watch her dump out their bags on the floor.
Do you see any pattern as I’m emptying it?” Miss Aponte asked.
“Yeah, it stinks.”
“Everybody’s chewing Winterfresh.”
“A lot of paper napkins.”
“It’s disgusting.”
New American, Saturday, 12 September 2020, Written by Dennis Behreandt
The Centers for Disease Control continues to take pains to remind Americans to wear their masks when they are out in public.
A missive from CDC that encouraged COVID safety during the Labor Day holiday says: “Do your part to help slow the spread of COVID-19 this Labor Day weekend. If you go to a park, beach, event or gathering, be sure to” do several things, including: “Wear a mask to protect yourself and others.”
Shooting Illustrated, by Guy J. Sagi -Thursday, August 20, 2020 –
Vista Outdoor CEO Christopher Metz’s quarterly earnings call, which took place earlier this month, indicates the current ammunition shortage may continue at least until 2021—perhaps longer.
The following is from the Dallas Observer
“Barry provided everything for her,” says a family friend, who spoke on condition she wasn’t named.
After her second divorce, she moved in with Tim Georgeff, who performs with her in their band Crush.
According to the ex-couples’ divorce decree, Shelley maintained sole possession of the salon….
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Even for Shelley Ann Luther, defiant owner of Salon à la Mode and America’s viral “hero” of the anti-lockdown right, it’s not a good look when –
For a more complete review of Luther’s fitness to become a Texas Senator go to Dallas Observer, Richie Whitt, May 25, 2020.
Even for Shelley Ann Luther, defiant owner of Salon à la Mode and America’s viral “hero” of the anti-lockdown right, it’s not a good look when …
American Rifleman, by Evan Brune – Wednesday, April 15, 2020
Anti-gun activists jumped on the COVID-19 pandemic as an opportunity to further their agenda, and they’ve found allies in state and local governments across the United States, as seen in this story out of San Francisco. Their efforts have focused largely on the concept of gun buying as a “public-health crisis,” claiming that the record number of people buying guns means there are too many new gun owners with little knowledge of or training in the handling of firearms. Of course, their solution to this “problem” is predictable: have the state prevent people from buying guns.
The National Rifle Association does not believe in implementing controlling measures from above or dictating how people ought to live their lives. Instead, the oldest civil-rights organization in the country offers resources that allow citizens to build their own knowledge base and seek out training on their own time and budget. Exercise of the Second Amendment has no barrier to entry. To this end, the NRA offers different levels of training and information to new gun owners, giving them the tools they need to succeed.
The Mercury News, By Julia Prodis Sulek | jsulek@bayareanewsgroup.com | Bay Area News Group PUBLISHED: | UPDATED: Could 2020 get any worse?
Californians are done with 2020: ‘It’s like a Stephen King novel’
Historic wildfires. Frantic evacuations. Punishing heat waves. The first rolling blackouts in two decades. And that was just this past week.
A coronavirus pandemic that has killed 11,000 Californians, tanked the economy, forced millions out of work and set up epic parent-child battles over online schooling. Violent clashes between police and protesters. Even the odd stuff is ominous, like the guy in Lake Tahoe who tested positive last week for the bubonic plague.
Ebony Brown-Olaseinde with her husband, Segun Olaseinde, and their
twins, Jurnee and Jordan, who were born premature during the pandemic. (John O’Boyle/Saint Barnabas Medical Center)
On a bright October day last fall, Ebony Brown-Olaseinde and her husband, Segun Olaseinde, found out that their longtime dream had finally been realized: They were going to be parents. After three years spent trying to conceive, they had succeeded through in vitro fertilization — and they soon learned that their twins, a boy and a girl, were due in June 2020.
From Inverse, By Emma Betuel –
Photo by Ktsdesign/Science Photo Library/ Getty Images.
The Human Genome Project, which began in the 1990s, was Homo sapiens’ successful attempt to map out the entirety of our species’ DNA. It produced the human reference genome, a finely polished collection of human DNA that’s crucial for genetics research and genetics testing services around the world. Integral as it has been to the science community, two researchers at Johns Hopkins University have discovered that the reference genome is missing a piece or two — well, 296,485,284 base pairs of DNA, to be exact.
American Rifleman, by Mark Keefe, June 26, 2020
Last fall, I reported that Colt Mfg. was no longer supplying its LE6920 carbines to the commercial market. There were a lot of reasons for this, mostly that Colt couldn’t compete with lower-priced makers, and the company was pretty busy with government contracts, both foreign and domestic.
