aU.S. Connie Barrett, Donald Trump’s nominee for the Supreme Court, went to my all-girls Catholic high school. We wore the same black-and-white plaid skirts and saddle oxfords and walked around the same hall, albeit about a decade apart. As students at St. Mary’s Dominican High School, with education associated with …
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Between 2002 and 2018, the number of 18- to 22-year-olds in the United States who stopped drinking for people with alcoholism increased from 20% to 28%. The percentage of those who are not in school was 30%, up from 24% in 2002. Alcohol abuse has been reduced by almost half …
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The range of reported features is wide. These include abnormal fatigue from physical or mental activity, brain fog, temperature irregularities, rashes, memory problems and insomnia. It seems that the body’s immune response to the coronavirus has hit the nervous system hard, says rehabilitation specialist at the Post-Cowid Care for Mount …
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Every day, more and more people are sharing stories about how COVID has changed their lives so badly – and a subset of people who may never be the same again. One patient said, “I think I have dementia.” New York Times, The chronology of patients suffering from neurological symptoms. …
Read More »In the Empire subway, violent crime is on the rise
It began in the early days of the epidemic in March, when someone set fire inside a subway car, killing the train operator and injuring 16 others. In the months that followed, about 500 subway cars crashed into the Windows 7 line. In August Gust, a man confronted a young …
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