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Henry Kissinger Requested a Monument in Arlington National Cemetery. He Won’t Get One.
2 months ago

Henry Kissinger Requested a Monument in Arlington National Cemetery. He Won’t Get One.

Politico  

In fact, Kissinger’s net worth at the time of his death was likely much higher than that; the $80 million estimate included his financial investments and cash but did not include his home in northwestern Connecticut, his apartment in midtown Manhattan or his shares in his consulting business. “You could argue that an awful lot of what Kissinger did after …

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The 'Body Roundness Index' Is Touted As The New BMI — And It's Got A Big Problem
3 months, 2 weeks ago

The 'Body Roundness Index' Is Touted As The New BMI — And It's Got A Big Problem

Huff Post  

Tim Robberts via Getty Images ICYMI, determining someone’s health by checking their body mass index is … well, not it. “Both use body shape and weight to make big guesses about someone’s health status and disease risk, without looking at any other markers of health, metabolic syndrome or other diseases.” She believes health care providers still use BMI for two …

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Activists demand permanent speed bump markers in Udhagamandalam
6 months, 1 week ago

Activists demand permanent speed bump markers in Udhagamandalam

The Hindu  

The People’s Legal Forum, Tamil Nadu Chapter, has filed a petition before the permanent Lok Adalat in the Nilgiris, seeking action against the Udhagamandalam Municipality for what it claims was unfinished work along the road between Tamizhagam guest house and the combined court complex in Udhagamandalam. Speaking to The Hindu, K. Vijayan, Director of the Tamil Nadu chapter of the …

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How did a bunch of grave markers from Punchbowl end up at a house in Palolo?
6 months, 1 week ago

How did a bunch of grave markers from Punchbowl end up at a house in Palolo?

Associated Press  

A Palolo resident found over a hundred grave markers at her house that seem to be from the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific, also known as Punchbowl, but nobody seems to know how they got there. Grave markers in Shentu’s yard memorialize people such as Thomas J. Scully, who died at the age of 25 just days before World …

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Iga Swiatek and Coco Gauff lay down French Open markers as Carlos Alcaraz steps it up
7 months, 1 week ago

Iga Swiatek and Coco Gauff lay down French Open markers as Carlos Alcaraz steps it up

The Independent  

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The American frontier is a two-sided story. Markers usually tell just one.
8 months, 1 week ago

The American frontier is a two-sided story. Markers usually tell just one.

NPR  

The American frontier is a two-sided story. Historical markers from the Atlantic through the Midwest tell a classic American tale of innocent white settlers killed by Native Americans. As part of our ongoing series, Off The Mark, NPR's Laura Sullivan went to what was once the American frontier in Minnesota. And if there are two sides on the American frontier, …

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‘Cities in Fiction’ public digital archive documents places from literature to serve as memory markers
8 months, 4 weeks ago

‘Cities in Fiction’ public digital archive documents places from literature to serve as memory markers

The Hindu  

What do you remember of the city? An iteration of this Calcutta finds mention in ‘Cities in Fiction’, apublic digital archive set up by Divya Ravindranath and Apoorva Saini. “Fiction can hold memory and history in a very distinct way,” says Ravindranath, an urban studies scholar at the Indian Institute for Human Settlements. “I am amazed at the writers’ ability …

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Protein markers tied to chemotherapy success
9 months, 2 weeks ago

Protein markers tied to chemotherapy success

China Daily  

Doctors in Shanghai have screened two protein markers to determine pancreatic cancer patients' sensitivity to chemotherapy, which may rewrite current treatment guidelines and improve patients' overall survival rate. By analyzing the data of 191 patients over more than three years of follow-ups, the researchers constructed a prognostic prediction model for pancreatic cancer, and identified two protein markers — NDUFB8 and …

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Researchers discover subtle change in the way you walk that could be a sign of dementia
9 months, 3 weeks ago

Researchers discover subtle change in the way you walk that could be a sign of dementia

Daily Mail  

Very subtle changes to the way you walk could be the earliest signs of dementia, an innovative study has suggested. Researchers from the Florida Atlantic University found that getting patients to walk along a curved line rather than a straight line was a better way to detect mild cognitive impairment Alzheimer's disease, the most common form of dementia, usually presents …

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Why it's proving difficult to define the official dawn of the Anthropocene
10 months ago

Why it's proving difficult to define the official dawn of the Anthropocene

BBC  

Why it's proving difficult to define the official dawn of the Anthropocene Getty Images Are we actually in the Anthropocene - officially? Getty Images To define a geological epoch, geologists often use actual rocks as the official "start" The term "Anthropocene" – popularised in the 2000s – has become a widely-used concept to describe our current moment in time: when …

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Brain damage caused by COVID-19 may not show up on routine tests, study finds
1 year ago

Brain damage caused by COVID-19 may not show up on routine tests, study finds

Salon  

Understandably, COVID-19 is largely thought of as a respiratory illness. Dozens of researchers from the University of Liverpool and King’s College London, among other scientific institutions, found that recovering COVID-19 patients may show up as healthy on the usual blood inflammation tests — and yet still have markers of brain injury in their blood. "Compared to 60 uninfected controls, are …

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Study finds BCG revaccination in adults enhanced pro-inflammatory markers of trained immunity along with anti-inflammatory pathways
1 year, 2 months ago

Study finds BCG revaccination in adults enhanced pro-inflammatory markers of trained immunity along with anti-inflammatory pathways

The Hindu  

A study by immunologists from St John’s Research Institute has found that Bacille Calmette-Guerin revaccination in adults enhanced pro-inflammatory markers of trained immunity along with anti-inflammatory pathways. Beyond the phenomenon of boosting immunity, our findings showed that BCG revaccination can programme circulating white blood cells such that the induced immune response is more controlled and balanced in terms of expression …

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Plastic rocks, plutonium, and chicken bones: the markers we’re laying down in deep time
1 year, 5 months ago

Plastic rocks, plutonium, and chicken bones: the markers we’re laying down in deep time

The Hindu  

Not on our human-scale time, but deep time: the almost unimaginable span of billions of years which have already come and gone. So to declare that we’re in a new geological epoch – and that we’ve left the balmy post-ice age Holocene behind – requires finding evidence of unmistakably clear markers. Plastics and plastic rocks Plastics aren’t naturally produced – …

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Banks should be clearer on how customers can challenge account closures – Which?
1 year, 5 months ago

Banks should be clearer on how customers can challenge account closures – Which?

The Independent  

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Trump vows to keep ‘communists and markers’ out of the US in latest gaffe
1 year, 6 months ago

Trump vows to keep ‘communists and markers’ out of the US in latest gaffe

The Independent  

Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inbox Get our free Inside Washington email Get our free Inside Washington email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. For his part, some of Mr Biden’s slips of the tongue can be attributed …

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Sushi Chefs Reveal The Markers Of A Good (And Bad) Sushi Restaurant
1 year, 6 months ago

Sushi Chefs Reveal The Markers Of A Good (And Bad) Sushi Restaurant

Huff Post  

d3sign via Getty Images Not all sushi restaurants are created equal. “Expertly prepared sushi rice retains its delicate, fluffy texture,” said Hidekazu Tojo, the chef at Tojo’s Restaurant in Vancouver. Seafood Quality “There are several signs that can indicate a good sushi restaurant, including fresh and high-quality ingredients,” Morimoto said. Chef Skill “Skillful sushi chefs can also indicate a good …

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Fasting diet lowers risk markers of type 2 diabetes: Research
1 year, 9 months ago

Fasting diet lowers risk markers of type 2 diabetes: Research

Hindustan Times  

A fasting diet that emphasises eating early in the day may hold the secret to lowering the risk of acquiring type 2 diabetes. Researchers from the University of Adelaide and South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute compared two different diets: a time restricted, intermittent fasting diet and a reduced calorie diet to see which one was more beneficial for …

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Ben Stokes lashes out at ICC over size of boundary markers: It has ruled one of our players out of T20 WC
2 years, 2 months ago

Ben Stokes lashes out at ICC over size of boundary markers: It has ruled one of our players out of T20 WC

India Today  

England all-rounder Ben Stokes has been left fuming after Reece Topley was ruled out of the T20 World Cup. "It's stupid," Stokes told England-based publication The Cricketer. "Unfortunately, it's taken one of our players to be ruled out of the World Cup. "But you look at player safety and the fact he's stood on it and it's ruptured ligaments and …

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Columbia University Erects Markers To Acknowledge Its Connections To Slavery, Racism
2 years, 8 months ago

Columbia University Erects Markers To Acknowledge Its Connections To Slavery, Racism

News 18  

Columbia University will add historical markers to four residence halls to acknowledge legacies of slavery and racism and to commemorate African American students, a university professor said on Tuesday. The markers, part of a university-wide project initiated by President Lee Bollinger after the murder of George Floyd in May 2020, include signs at residence halls John Jay Hall and 50 …

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How To Remove Unnecessary Blank Pages or Extra Pages on Microsoft Word
2 years, 9 months ago

How To Remove Unnecessary Blank Pages or Extra Pages on Microsoft Word

News 18  

Ever faced a problem where your word document has some blank or extra pages which you do not require, and are unable to find the delete option? Delete page in Word using Find and Replace tool Open the word file in MS Word, tap anywhere on the page that you wish to delete Now press ‘Ctrl+G’ in Windows and if …

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Mystery over 'Z' markers daubed on Russian tanks as they approach Ukraine
2 years, 10 months ago

Mystery over 'Z' markers daubed on Russian tanks as they approach Ukraine

The Telegraph  

Russian tanks and other forces on Ukraine's borders have been daubed with a "Z" in white paint, analysts noted on Sunday, leading to a flurry of speculation about what the mark symbolised. Videos from the border region showed scores of armoured vehicles with the "Z," mark, including a convoy in Shebekino, just five miles away from the Ukrainian border. "It …

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Bay St. Louis aims to spruce up Katrina high water markers
2 years, 11 months ago

Bay St. Louis aims to spruce up Katrina high water markers

Associated Press  

BAY ST. LOUIS, Miss. — A coastal Mississippi city is searching for local artists to reimagine its Hurricane Katrina high water markers. Bay St. Louis has been awarded a grant for the Katrina High Water Mark Revitalization Project, WLOX-TV reported. The plan is for local artists to design and paint “Welcome to BSL” murals on concrete slabs at one of …

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Racial reckoning turns focus to roadside historical markers
3 years ago

Racial reckoning turns focus to roadside historical markers

Associated Press  

HARRISBURG, Pa. — Pennsylvania had been installing historical markers for more than a century when the racist violence in Charlottesville, Virginia, in August 2017 brought a fresh round of questions from the public about just whose stories were being told on the state’s roadsides — and the language used to tell them. State government took down a marker in Pittsburgh’s …

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Racial reckoning turns focus to roadside historical markers
3 years ago

Racial reckoning turns focus to roadside historical markers

NPR  

Racial reckoning turns focus to roadside historical markers Enlarge this image toggle caption Keith Srakocic/AP Keith Srakocic/AP HARRISBURG, Pa. — Pennsylvania had been installing historical markers for more than a century when the racist violence in Charlottesville, Va., in August 2017 brought a fresh round of questions from the public about just whose stories were being told on the state's …

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