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from CNN
Senate approves $480 billion package to help small businesses and hospitals, expand testing
The Senate passed a roughly $480 billion relief package Tuesday that includes hundreds of billions of dollars in new funding for small businesses hurt by the coronavirus outbreak along with other priorities like money for hospitals and expanded Covid-19 testing. The Senate passed the package by a voice vote, meaning most senators would not need to return to Washington, DC, during the pandemic. The bill goes to the House, which is expected to vote on the package Thursday. The total price tag of the bill is approximately $484 billion, which amounts to the latest unprecedented effort by Washington to prop up the economy on the heels of the $2 trillion rescue package, the $192 billion relief measure and another $8.3 billion plan Congress approved last month. Democratic leaders are already planning for another massive rescue bill.
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from Hoover Institution
Nonprofit Organization in Stanford, California
How To Explain The Western Way Of War
At the start of the sixteenth century, Europe appeared the least impressive of the global civilizations, certainly the least likely to achieve a dominant position in the world. Europe was little more than a conglomeration of small, nasty states and cities, sharing a common religion and a common, ferocious desire to fight each other. Moreover, that common religion was about to be shattered by the Reformation. Despite their own penchant to slaughter each other, the Europeans were under constant pressure from the powerful Ottoman Empire, not only in the Balkans, but in the Mediterranean as well. Yet, within a period of less than three centuries, these quarreling European states would be well on the way to acquiring domination over the globe. By 1750, the Inca and Aztec civilizations in the Americas had collapsed; the Ottomans were in retreat; and throughout Asia, the Europeans seemed unbeatable. How to explain this sudden “rise of the West?”
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Broadcasting & Media Production Company in Ephrata, WA
Dozens of Stemilt fruit workers test positive for coronavirus
Thirty-six fruit workers tested positive for COVID-19 at an isolated East Wenatchee site over the weekend. The testing was done in coordination with Confluence Health. COVID-19 tests were done on a total of 71 team members, half of whom tested positive for the disease. This was the first wide-scale test done in Chelan and Douglas County. Health officials say all 71 subjects were asymptomatic.
from Hoover Institution
Nonprofit Organization in Stanford, California
How To Explain The Western Way Of War
At the start of the sixteenth century, Europe appeared the least impressive of the global civilizations, certainly the least likely to achieve a dominant position in the world. Europe was little more than a conglomeration of small, nasty states and cities, sharing a common religion and a common, ferocious desire to fight each other. Moreover, that common religion was about to be shattered by the Reformation. Despite their own penchant to slaughter each other, the Europeans were under constant pressure from the powerful Ottoman Empire, not only in the Balkans, but in the Mediterranean as well. Yet, within a period of less than three centuries, these quarreling European states would be well on the way to acquiring domination over the globe. By 1750, the Inca and Aztec civilizations in the Americas had collapsed; the Ottomans were in retreat; and throughout Asia, the Europeans seemed unbeatable. How to explain this sudden “rise of the West?”
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from iFIBER One News
Dozens of Stemilt fruit workers test positive for coronavirus
Thirty-six fruit workers tested positive for COVID-19 at an isolated East Wenatchee site over the weekend. The testing was done in coordination with Confluence Health. COVID-19 tests were done on a total of 71 team members, half of whom tested positive for the disease. This was the first wide-scale test done in Chelan and Douglas County. Health officials say all 71 subjects were asymptomatic.
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from Lewiston Tribune
Publisher in Lewiston, IdahoNez Perce County was hot spot for polio
Disease that maimed and killed came through region in waves from 1910 until vaccine widely circulated in the 1950s
The ravages of the Spanish influenza left Idahoans shocked. Fifty percent of cases in the small town of Paris, Idaho, died. The mortality among the state’s Native Americans was 11.5 percent, fourth highest in the nation. The final statewide statistics are unknown to this day, as Idaho did not require reporting until after the influenza had already taken a tight grip on the public’s health. In 1922, residents could finally applaud something. The St. Joseph Hospital nursing school graduated its first class. The White Hospital followed in 1923. However, the pandemic left residents with selective amnesia. That is what pandemics do, overwhelming the consciousness and obscuring other mortal threats. One of those was infantile paralysis, also known as polio. Influenza survivors showed no visible damage.
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from The Spokesman-Review
Newspaper in Spokane, Washington
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