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#Islamophobia #PoliticalRhetoric #ReligiousFreedom
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Anti-Muslim comments by GOP congressman reflect a rising trend - The Boston Globe
Their silence may have been driven in part by the fact that these days, there is nothing particularly unusual about Islamophobic statements from the ranks of the GOP.
#CenyPohonnýchHmot #Ekonomika #Inflace
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Trump touted bigger tax refunds this year, but Americans will likely spend them on gas - The Boston Globe
But that was before the Iran war, which began Feb. 28. Oil and gas prices have soared since then, with the nationwide average price of gas reaching $3.
#CDC #PublicHealth #VaccinePolicy
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White House navigates vaccine politics, midterm risks in CDC director search - The Boston Globe
Fletcher, Edney and Marine - who have significantly different expertise and political backers - reflect the complicated dynamics administration officials are navigating as they seek a leader for the $9 billion agency facing a cascade of challenges and a prolonged leadership vacuum.
#InternationalStudents #HigherEducation #ImmigrationPolicy
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Judge rules lawsuit can proceed against Trump-era student visa revocations - The Boston Globe
While she understood that students "would have been terrified" by receiving the notices, Saris said the policy of sending such notices doesn't represent a "final agency action" eligible for judicial review.
#Immigration #Visas #UnitedStates
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Legal immigration to US is falling from most countries under Trump, data shows - The Boston Globe
India and China bore the brunt of the visa declines. The U. S. issued many fewer temporary visas to international students, cultural exchange visitors, and fiancés and spouses of U.
#MentalHealth #DisabilityRights #PoliceReform
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Cops and the mental health crisis: Reset needed - The Boston Globe
"He's triggered by our presence," one officer says and leaves the room, but another remains and the crying continues.
Eventually his mother is able to convince him to leave his bedroom and go to the hospital.
#Education #SchoolFunding #TestingChallenges
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'Accountability' won't solve the teaching-math problem
Testing fails because too many schools lack the resources they need to educate students
Chad Aldeman's March 16 op-ed, "When high school grads can't do math," focuses on outputs, such as MCAS and the proposed MassCore.
#TSA #GovernmentShutdown #CommunitySupport
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Nonprofits, unions and airports rally to feed TSA officers as shutdown drags - The Boston Globe
Carissa Casares from Feeding San Diego said communicating with the airport means they can better tailor their resources and response to TSA workers' needs.
#PublicHealth #Vaccination #ChildHealth
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It's not just vaccines -- parents are refusing other routine preventive care for newborns - The Boston Globe
Doctors across the nation are alarmed that skepticism fueled by rising anti-science sentiment and medical mistrust is increasingly reaching beyond vaccines to other proven, routine, preventive care for babies.
#ClimateChange #ExtremeWeather #GlobalWarming
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Summer heat hits Southwest in March and records are shattered - The Boston Globe
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March's heat would have been virtually impossible without human-caused climate change, according to a report Friday by World Weather Attribution, an international group of scientists who study the causes of extreme weather events.
#BorderWall #EnvironmentalImpact #USPolitics
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A massive border wall expansion is underway - The Boston Globe
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"This is one of the largest public works projects in recent history for the US," said Eamon Harrity, wildlife program manager for Sky Island Alliance, a conservation nonprofit based in Tucson.
#MentalHealth #OCD #ChildPsychiatry
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Judith Rapoport dies at 92. Her best-selling book introduced readers to OCD. - The Boston Globe
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Dr. Rapoport, who died March 7 at the age of 92, "essentially brought that disorder to light in the United States and around the world," said John Walkup, the president of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry.
#Pride #FreeSpeech #DiversityAndInclusion
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'Feels like we've gone back in time.' Pride flags were removed from Boston University offices. Professors are alarmed. - The Boston Globe
Nathan Phillips, a physiological ecology professor, entered his office overlooking Commonwealth Avenue on Monday to find his Pride flag folded up on his chair.
#HousingCrisis #UrbanDevelopment #AffordableHousing
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Fifteen Boston-area towns set big goals to build out of the region's housing shortage by 2030. They're nowhere close. - The Boston Globe
There are "1. 5 million residents represented here that deserve housing stability," said Joe Curtatone, then the mayor of Somerville.
#AI #Legislation #Bipartisanship
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White House urges Congress to take a light touch on AI regulations in new legislative blueprint - The Boston Globe
House Republican leaders swiftly endorsed the framework and said they're ready to work "across the aisle" to pass legislation, but doing so would be a heavy lift, requiring agreement with Democrats in the Senate as public divisions over AI run deep.
#SocialMedia #MentalHealth #YouthAwareness
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Methuen takes new steps to curb social media use by youths under age 16 - The Boston Globe
"Excessive social media use among children under 16 is often linked to mental health challenges, cyberbullying, negative impacts on academic and social development," Beauregard said in an interview this week at City Hall.
#ParkProtection #Article97 #UrbanDevelopment
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Conservationists warn allowing White Stadium project puts parks at risk statewide - The Boston Globe
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The Emerald Necklace Conservancy has turned to Article 97 as it tries in court to block the White Stadium redevelopment.
#ArtificialIntelligence #AIEthics #Regulation
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White House urges Congress to take a light touch on AI regulations in new legislative blueprint - The Boston Globe
The announcement comes as state governments have forged ahead on their own regulations for AI while civil liberties and consumer rights groups lobby for more regulations on the powerful technology.
#Harvard #antisemitism #highereducation
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Trump administration sues Harvard over antisemitism allegations - The Boston Globe
The pair of lawsuits once again ratchet up the battle between the White House and the Ivy League university just when chatter about an impending deal was dying down and attention was focused elsewhere: the new US-Israeli war with Iran.
#ChuckNorris #MartialArts #IconicActor
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Chuck Norris, martial arts master and actor whose toughness became internet lore, dies - The Boston Globe
"While we would like to keep the circumstances private, please know that he was surrounded by his family and was at peace," the family said in a statement posted to social media.
#Blackface #AmericanHistory #CulturalCritique
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Blackface isn't dead. It isn't even past. - The Boston Globe
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"Darkology" is, in part, about the print culture and paper materials -- nearly ten thousand published minstrel plays, songbooks, step-by-step performance guides, joke books, and the institutional records of the fraternal orders, PTAs, churches, military bases, and universities that staged blackface productions -- making up the history of amateur minstrelsy.
#CriminalJustice #JudicialReform #BailReform
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What's missing from Healey's court picks - The Boston Globe
I know this because I am one of the researchers who demonstrated it. In a study published in December in the Journal of Law and Courts, my coauthor, Oded Oren, and I analyzed nearly 70,000 criminal court arraignments in New York City.
#DASHdiet #CognitiveHealth #Nutrition
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This diet beats out 5 others when it comes to cognitive health, study finds - The Boston Globe
They found six relatively healthy eating patterns were associated with a lower chance of participants self-reporting symptoms of cognitive decline.
#Wellbeing #SocialMedia #YouthMentalHealth
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What the World Happiness Report reveals about social media and the world's happiest country - The Boston Globe
It highlighted how life evaluations among under 25-year-olds in the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand have dropped significantly over the past decade, and suggested that long hours spent scrolling through social media is a key factor in that trend.
#Wellbeing #SocialMedia #YouthMentalHealth
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What the World Happiness Report reveals about social media and the world's happiest country - The Boston Globe
It highlighted how life evaluations among under 25-year-olds in the United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand have dropped significantly over the past decade, and suggested that long hours spent scrolling through social media is a key factor in that trend.
#ClimateChange #Sustainability #GlobalWarming
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How might climate change affect Cambridge and Somerville? - The Boston Globe
Back in early 2024, my wife and I were hanging out with another couple. It was evening, we were all sipping some hard cider, and there was a nice, gemütlich feel to the conversation.
#StopHate #Inclusivity #Respect
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Antisemitic graffiti found at 3 schools in East Greenwich, R.I. - The Boston Globe
"This comes just weeks after an incident of racist graffiti at Eldredge Elementary School," Kenworthy wrote in the letter, which was provided to the Globe on Thursday.
#FoodIsMedicine #DietAndHealth #MentalHealthAwareness
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RFK Jr. makes food sound like a miracle drug. Researchers say he often overstates the science. - The Boston Globe
"Food is medicine, and you can heal yourself with a good diet," Kennedy said on comedian Theo Von's "This Past Weekend" podcast in February.
#Education #BostonPublicSchools #BudgetCuts
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'We are spending more and achieving less.' Boston schools ramped up hiring, but students' scores didn't get much better - The Boston Globe
Yet as the ranks of administrators swelled, enrollment went in the opposite direction, plummeting by nearly one fifth.
Now with the city facing a budget crunch, school administrators are proposing far steeper cuts to classroom teachers and aides than to the higher-paid bureaucrats in corner offices.
#Education #Equity #Opportunity
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For N.H. students, college prep program disappeared overnight amid Trump administration cuts - The Boston Globe
Experts said these cuts mean fewer low income and first-generation students will be able to find a path to college, limiting their future prospects and the economic growth of sectors reliant on a highly educated workforce.
#Healthcare #PrivateEquity #NonprofitHospitals
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Should R.I. regulate private equity in health care after a crisis threatened two safety-net hospitals? - The Boston Globe
On Feb. 26, state officials announced that the nonprofit Centurion Foundation was expected to finally close on the purchase of two struggling hospitals -- Roger Williams Medical Center and Our Lady of Fatima Hospital -- from their bankrupt for-profit owner, Prospect Medical Holdings.
#Iran #EnergyInfrastructure #MiddleEastConflict
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Tehran intensifies attacks on Gulf energy facilities after Israel hits Iranian gas field - Clone
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) -- Iran intensified its attacks on its Gulf Arab neighbors' energy infrastructure Thursday, setting Qatari liquefied natural gas facilities and two Kuwaiti oil refineries ablaze as it hit back following an Israeli attack on its main natural gas field, a major escalation in the Mideast war that has sent global fuel prices soaring.
#HealthcareReform #MonopolyPower #MedicalDebt
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Putting a lid on high hospital bills - The Boston Globe
The high prices that distress Jha and Papanicolas are perhaps the most common manifestation of monopoly power. However, masking this unpleasant symptom with price ceilings not only would do nothing to cure what actually ails the patient but it also would cause that monopoly power to manifest itself in even worse ways, such as delays in medical treatment, reductions in quality of care, and surcharges on services that are now supplied gratis as part of health care packages, such as patients' hospital meals and bed-linen changes.
#ArtificialTurf #PFAS #Nantucket
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Nantucket is weighing a ban on artificial turf fields. Are they safe for children? - The Boston Globe
On Thursday, the Nantucket Board of Health is expected to weigh whether to ban synthetic turf, not just from the playing field, but entirely from the island.
#Immigration #HumanRights #CommunityEmpowerment
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English, Spanish, Haitian Creole, and other languages echoed through the State House on Immigrants Day - The Boston Globe
For many attendees, the event was deeply personal. Pilar Castrillo, a 58-year-old immigrant from Venezuela, said she spent a decade waiting for asylum before winning her case last year.
#AlvinGreene #SouthCarolinaPolitics #BlackCandidates
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Alvin Greene, a no-show senate nominee who won primary, dies at 48 - The Boston Globe
The Pew Research Center determined in July 2010 that Mr. Greene had received more attention across 52 major news outlets than any other candidate so far that year.
#WrongfulConviction #Exoneration #ForensicScience
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Suffolk prosecutors drop case against Chelsea man whose conviction in 1985 murder was overturned - The Boston Globe
In the filing, prosecutors said that after re-investigating the case, they could no longer prove the charges beyond a reasonable doubt.
