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How LA's first playgrounds brought respite to working class children
It was noon at Playground Number One in Los Angeles on a crisp October day in 1905. As schoolchildren swamped L.A.’s first ...
The Smithsonian's Center For Folklife And Cultural Heritage Has Appointed Heidi Kühn As Chair Of Its U.S. 250 Council
Heidi offers the kind of catalytic leadership needed to support meaningful collaborative <a target=_blank href= ...
IEEE Increases Its Medal Of Honor Purse To 2 Million Dollars
IEEE Medal of Honor, with its new $2M purse will be presented to recipients at the 2025 IEEE Honors Ceremony in Tokyo, Japan, ...
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South Africa's HIV research power couple wins Lasker Award
Through decades of pioneering work on fighting the spread of infectious diseases such as HIV, South African public health power couple Quarraisha and Salim Abdool Karim are credited with saving ...
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Free Narges Coalition calls for the urgent release of Narges Mohammadi ahead of Iran’s address at the United Nations
Ahead of the gathering of heads of state from around the world at the UN headquarters in New York from 24-30 September for ...
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Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Egypt Now
It has been thirteen years since the 2011 Revolution in Egypt toppled Hosni Mubarak. He had been at that point the president ...
How a Simple Worm May Hold the Key to Stopping Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s
Scientists discovered a link between copper regulation and neurodegeneration, using the worm gene swip-10. Their findings suggest that restoring copper balance could offer new treatments for disorders ...