Prolific English filmmaker Michael Winterbottom will write and direct a television series dramatizing British Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic, the producers behind the project announced Friday. The untitled series “will tell the true story of the biggest national and personal crisis facing a government leader since …
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Many fans of The office Let’s say your favorite part of comedy is the epic love story of Jim Halpert (John Krasinski) and Pam Beesly (Jenna Fischer). The relationship between the two was the focus of the show throughout the nine seasons and helped balance the show against the crazy …
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A The CRISPR form is expected to be more secure and possibly more effective than the original has passed its first substantive test. When the CRISPR “base edition” was used to remove two genes associated with cholesterol in monkeys, the animals’ blood levels of LDL (“bad”) cholesterol and triglycerides causing …
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Long Blocking Periods May Weaken the Immune System and Leave People More Vulnerable to Dangerous Viruses, Oxford Epidemiologist Warns Sunetra Gupta said the blockade could make people more vulnerable to the disease. The Oxford professor’s team had argued that the coronavirus arrived in the UK in December. Rival advice given …
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In this dry stretch of northwestern Arizona, signs from the Trump campaign dot the desert landscape, and Trump’s flags wave from the back of the dusty trucks. Last fall, an event called “Trumpstock” outside of the town of Kingman featured a Trump impersonator, a pro-Trump rapper, and a “MAGA Subs” …
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