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How to Talk to Children About Mass Shootings - The New York Times

Whether you’ve got a kindergartner or a teenager, here is how to help them in the immediate aftermath of tragedy.

A devastating reality of raising children in America today is that parents must be prepared to talk to their kids about mass shootings.

It’s a wrenching task, and experts say there are some universal best practices — like avoiding graphic details. Or doing your best to actively listen, rather than trying to take away children’s pain.

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Artemis I’s solar panels harvested a lot more energy than expected - Popular Science

Tests during the recent lunar mission proved that a specially designed solar array could help power long-distance space flights.

By Briley Lewis | Published Dec 14, 2022 6:00 AM EST

An essential part of any space mission is power. If a spacecraft runs out of energy, the communications go down, the craft becomes unsteerable, and life support systems shut off—a scenario that’s the stuff of sci-fi nightmares.

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As the Gaza war rages, Egypt fears for its stability - The Economist

FROM 10M-HIGH walls and watchtowers Egypt’s soldiers look out on the war unfolding in Gaza. Over half of the coastal enclave’s population of over 2m are on the move, as Israeli tanks advance into it from the north and east and its warplanes and artillery continue their bombardment. Many Palestinians are heading towards the border with Egypt in search of food, electricity, water and safety.

Egyptian calls for Israel to open the crossing at Rafah to allow humanitarian aid to enter have gone largely unheeded. Only 84 lorries of medicine and food have entered Gaza since the fighting began, says the Egyptian Red Cross. Meanwhile Egypt is reinforcing the border area with tanks and troops, determined to keep Palestinians out. “Palestinians and Arabs would not experience a second naqba,” said Ahmed Aboul-Gheit, a former Egyptian foreign minister and secretary-general of the Arab League, referring to the Palestinian exodus that accompanied Israel’s war of independence in 1948.

As the fighting escalates, Egypt is grappling with a trio of fears. First, how to manage growing pressure to accommodate Palestinians. A rush of refugees from Gaza could rekindle Egypt’s conflict with the Bedouin in the Sinai and revive the Muslim Brotherhood, the political Islamists who have long been the biggest internal threat to Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi, the country’s field-marshal-turned-president. Fears of instability could damage the economy, which is already foundering. Added to that is a sense that their president is turning their country from a regional heavyweight into little more than a bystander.

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Britain must overhaul the way it approves infrastructure - The Economist

“SAY NO!” Blare orange placards along the road out of Marks Tey, a village in Essex. Rosie Pearson, a consultant-turned-campaigner, points to where a planned chain of pylons will cut through a field next to the house she grew up in. Pulling out maps and annotated documents, she recounts skirmishes with National Grid, which wants to build the line to carry wind and nuclear power from East Anglia to London. The real battle will not come until 2025, when a final decision beckons.

Building infrastructure in Britain has become painfully slow. Since the planning system was last reformed in 2012, the time it takes to secure consent for national infrastructure projects has risen by two-thirds, to over four years. That is on top of a “pre-consent” stage that averages two. Power lines should be relatively easy things to put up, but they still take around 13 years from start to finish.

Pylons have always sparked particular controversy. A “permanent disfigurement” was the verdict of John Maynard Keynes, a great economist, when they first appeared on Britain’s skyline in the 1920s (the Electricity Board brushed off its critics as “impractical aesthetes”). “Bestride your hills with pylons, O age without a soul”, wrote John Betjeman during a pylon boom in the 1960s in response to the growing demands of consumer appliances. The poet’s sardonic protest was ignored, too.

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