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North Korea: Desperate and Dangerous
The Gordon Chang Report | August 2024 | Gordon Chang

North Korea publicly executed about 30 middle school students for watching South Korean dramas according to a TV Chosun report. The report cited a South Korean government official.

The dramas were stored on USB drives that had been lofted across the Demilitarized Zone into the North by balloons sent by North Korean defector groups operating from the South.

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Scope-of-practice laws put patients in the crosshairs
Richmond Times-Dispatch | Sally Pipes | August 13, 2024

New research appears to have found the proverbial “free lunch” economists have long been searching for.

States that grant nurse practitioners “full practice authority” — that authorize them to provide care independently, without the supervision of a physician or other provider — reduce total healthcare costs for people with diabetes by 20% in urban areas and drive down rural usage of advanced medical services by people with diabetes by about 10%.

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How politics is getting in the way of teaching kids how to read
New York Post | Lance Izumi | August 12, 2024

Even though much of America’s education landscape is so depressing right now, there is hope that better times could be ahead. Today, states — both red and blue — are passing laws that emphasize the teaching of reading using proven evidence-based methods such as phonics instruction.

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