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from CNN
2,000 Native American remains, which sat at a university for 50 years, will soon go home
For decades, the remains of thousands of Native Americans have been resting at a university in Tennessee. But this spring, they will finally go home. Archaeologists unearthed more than 2,000 Arikara and Mandan ancestral remains in South Dakota during the mid-20th century as part of the Missouri River Basin Survey, according to a November Federal Register report. The goal of the survey was to preserve objects that would otherwise be destroyed by an upcoming construction project.
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from Fox News (& affiliates)
Untraceable coronavirus clusters emerge outside Asia, worrying health officials
In South Korea, Singapore and Iran, clusters of infections are leading to a jump in cases of the new viral illness outside China. But it’s not the numbers that are worrying experts: It's that increasingly they can't trace where the clusters started. World Health Organization officials said China's crackdown on parts of the country bought time for the rest of the world to prepare for the new virus. But as hot spots emerge around the globe, trouble finding each source — the first patient who sparks every new cluster — might signal the disease has begun spreading too widely for tried-and-true public health steps to stamp it out. The outbreak will also rock the Chinese economy and send shockwaves to the U.S. and the rest of the world, an economist nicknamed Dr. Doom for his dire, but accurate, predictions said. The virus has already led to the lockdown of more than 60 million people and caused scores of companies to temporarily shutter or reduce operations in the country, bringing the world’s second-largest economy to a grinding halt.
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Don’t buy China’s story: The coronavirus may have leaked from a lab
Xi didn’t actually admit that the coronavirus now devastating large swaths of China had escaped from one of the country’s bioresearch labs. But the very next day, evidence emerged suggesting that this is exactly what happened, as the Chinese Ministry of Science and Technology released a new directive titled: “Instructions on strengthening biosecurity management in microbiology labs that handle advanced viruses like the novel coronavirus.”
note: Facebook has labeled this "False Information / Checked by independent fact-checkers", with a link to health feedback The determination that the NY Post article has false information may be premature.
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from New York Post
RIGHT-CENTER BIAS, MIXED, Newspaper in New York
RIGHT-CENTER BIAS, MIXED, Newspaper in New York
Don’t buy China’s story: The coronavirus may have leaked from a lab
Xi didn’t actually admit that the coronavirus now devastating large swaths of China had escaped from one of the country’s bioresearch labs. But the very next day, evidence emerged suggesting that this is exactly what happened, as the Chinese Ministry of Science and Technology released a new directive titled: “Instructions on strengthening biosecurity management in microbiology labs that handle advanced viruses like the novel coronavirus.”
note: Facebook has labeled this "False Information / Checked by independent fact-checkers", with a link to health feedback The determination that the NY Post article has false information may be premature.
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from The Spokesman-Review
Newspaper in Spokane, Washington
Sue Lani Madsen: Collapsing buildings a sign of stress in rural Eastern Washington
When a tree falls in a wild forest, philosophers argue whether it makes a sound. When a building collapses in a small town, does anyone hear it? Margie Hall, executive director for the Lincoln County Economic Development Council, certainly has. Four times in less than six years in eastern Lincoln County. It’s an alarming trend. First to fall was a two-story brick building in downtown Sprague. That was June 2014. A few years later, a wood framed grain elevator collapsed overnight in Edwall and had to be pulled down. Last month a century-old two-story former auto repair shop sprawled into U.S. Highway 2 in Reardan. And then another old commercial building in Lincoln County – location withheld to deter gawkers – lost its back wall to disintegrating masonry and a soggy foundation. It’s still there, a zombie building in an already tiny remnant of a business district.
North Idaho looks to keep time in sync with Washington
If SB 1267 becomes law, northern and southern Idaho could eventually be in the same time zone four months of year, from November to early March. Currently, southern Idaho is on Mountain time, while northern Idaho is on Pacific time, an hour earlier. The dividing line is “Time Zone Bridge” in Riggins
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Sue Lani Madsen: Collapsing buildings a sign of stress in rural Eastern Washington
When a tree falls in a wild forest, philosophers argue whether it makes a sound. When a building collapses in a small town, does anyone hear it? Margie Hall, executive director for the Lincoln County Economic Development Council, certainly has. Four times in less than six years in eastern Lincoln County. It’s an alarming trend. First to fall was a two-story brick building in downtown Sprague. That was June 2014. A few years later, a wood framed grain elevator collapsed overnight in Edwall and had to be pulled down. Last month a century-old two-story former auto repair shop sprawled into U.S. Highway 2 in Reardan. And then another old commercial building in Lincoln County – location withheld to deter gawkers – lost its back wall to disintegrating masonry and a soggy foundation. It’s still there, a zombie building in an already tiny remnant of a business district.
North Idaho looks to keep time in sync with Washington
If SB 1267 becomes law, northern and southern Idaho could eventually be in the same time zone four months of year, from November to early March. Currently, southern Idaho is on Mountain time, while northern Idaho is on Pacific time, an hour earlier. The dividing line is “Time Zone Bridge” in Riggins
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