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from The Atlantic Magazine
You’re Likely to Get the Coronavirus
Most cases are not life-threatening, which is also what makes the virus a historic challenge to contain.
from BBC News (UK)
Have we murdered the apostrophe?
Last year, the Apostrophe Protection Society was disbanded, having supposedly failed in its mission. But what is the correct use of the grammatical mark anyway.
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from HumanProgress.org Education Website
How to Think About Our Problems
Our species has evolved to see the glass of human existence as half empty. To plan for problems ahead, such as droughts, was a better survival strategy than expecting an eternity of bountiful harvests. Here I attempt to outline different types of problems that we will face in the future and evaluate the degree of “alarm” with which those problems should be treated.
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from Institute for the Study of War (blog)
The Kremlin is successfully posturing as a legitimate, impartial mediator for the war in Donbas despite being a belligerent in the conflict. Claims that the Kremlin-initiated peace process is stabilizing the war in Donbas misrepresent the reality of the Kremlin’s actions and objectives. The Kremlin exploited Ukraine’s goodwill withdrawal of troops from portions of the front lines and continues to consolidate control over proxies in eastern Ukraine. Ukrainian officials are advancing Kremlin-initiated peace processes while the Kremlin continues to pursue its objectives of regaining control of Ukraine’s decision-making and removing international constraints on Russian President Vladimir Putin’s ambitions.
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from Orthodox Christianity – orthochristian.com
Religious Organization in Moscow, Russia
On January 31, the US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo visited Kiev, and met with the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky, and the head of the [schismatic] Orthodox Church of Ukraine (OCU), Metropolitan Epiphany Dumenko. This meeting took place against the backdrop of a calm on the Ukrainian church front: the number of seizures of churches by schismatics decreased, Epiphany stopped making inflammatory statements and calling for the "return" of the Lavras for a while. The Ukrainian Orthodox people even began to say that the OCU isn’t acting the same. But Pompeo’s visit could mean a powerful signal for a return to Poroshenko’s politics on the church issue.
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from PBS (& affiliates)
Russia wants to watch Americans “tear ourselves apart” as the United States heads toward elections, an FBI official warned Monday. David Porter, an assistant section chief with the FBI’s Foreign Influence Task Force, accused Russia of conducting brazen operations aimed at spreading disinformation, exploiting lines of division in society and sowing doubt about the integrity of U.S. elections and the ability of its leaders to govern effectively. ... Porter did not address ... whether Russia had a preference for particular candidates. But he said Russia was generally engaged in “information confrontation” aimed at blurring fact from fiction, eroding American confidence in democratic institutions and driving wedges into society’s fracture lines. “The primary objective is not to create a particular version of the truth but rather cloud the truth and erode our ability to find it, creating a sentiment that no narrative or news source can be trusted at all.”
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from The Spokesman-Review
Newspaper in Spokane, Washington
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