Saturday, December 14, 2019

In the news, Saturday, November 30, 2019


________

NOV 29      INDEX      DEC 01
________


________

from Daily Wire
RIGHT BIAS, MIXED, American news and opinion website

‘Unprecedented’: Iran Kills Hundreds Of Unarmed Protesters, Quran Expert Warns It May Kill Thousands In Crackdown
A brutal crackdown by the Iranian government has left at least 180 demonstrators dead after they participated in protests that were initially sparked by an unexpected increase in fuel prices. “Altogether, from 180 to 450 people, and possibly more, were killed in four days of intense violence after the gasoline price increase was announced on Nov. 15, with at least 2,000 wounded and 7,000 detained, according to international rights organizations, opposition groups and local journalists,” The New York Times reported.

________

from HumanProgress.org  Education Website

Heroes of Progress, Pt. 32: Benjamin Rubin
This week our hero is Benjamin Rubin, the American microbiologist who invented the bifurcated needle. Rubin’s bifurcated needle was instrumental in the World Health Organization’s 1980 campaign that led to the full eradication of smallpox, the only infectious disease to achieve that distinction. In the mid-1970s, Rubin’s bifurcated needle administered more than 200 million vaccinations annually. It is estimated to have saved more than one hundred million lives and prevented hundreds of millions more people from contracting smallpox.

________



from The Spokesman-Review
Newspaper in Spokane, Washington

Sue Lani Madsen: Expansion of shopping holidays clutters the calendar
Did you celebrate Black Friday or Buy Nothing Day this year? Both holidays are informally scheduled on the Friday after Thanksgiving on the expanding seasonal calendar of named days.

________


No comments:

Post a Comment