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"I have coached athletics for 40 years, men, women, boys, and girls. There is a saying that an athlete is an athlete. That is true, but there are physical differences and there are differences in the best ways to effectively coach them. Anyone denying that is either ignorant or a liar."

- IWF Subscriber & Athletic Coach Terry F. on protecting women's sports and demanding fair play

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Are Parents Making Middle School Worse?
The lockdown has been harder on some people than others. Though some adolescents—who are in the process of becoming more independent and wanting to spend more time away from their families—might have a more difficult time being stuck in the house with their parents, anecdotal evidence seems mixed. Adults today are creating their own problems for middle schoolers.The lack of boundaries between parents and children—both the tendency for adults to want to be their children’s best friends and helicopter parenting—has exacerbated many of the tensions among kids. 

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COVID-19 Death Rate Is Falling Sharply

One potentially encouraging COVID-19 statistic is being overlooked consistently: the death rate from the virus is plummeting. A possible contributing factor to this fall is that we are learning to deal with the virus. Treatments are better, we now know that requiring nursing homes to accept infected patients can be deadly, so we are more careful. Falling death rates are significant and, should this trend continue, a turning point. So why is it being so underplayed? Because the media has a huge incentive to bury the falling death rate. 

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It's Hot: Let's Talk Sunscreen
Can you identify which of the following is not true about sunscreen?

A:  Sunscreen should be used—even on cloudy days—to prevent skin damage and cancer.
B:  While sunscreens may help prevent sun damage and skin cancer, the chemical ingredients in sunscreens—like oxybenzone and retinyl palmitate—are dangerous and can cause other types of cancer.
C: Sunscreens do not cause vitamin D deficiency.
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Harris Faulkner Talks Career, Back-To-School, and Working From Home
    

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Sign up for Author Chats 

You asked, and we answered. Due to overwhelming demand for more #IWFReads Book Club events, we created a new series, “Author Chats.” We invite you to join us for the very first Author Chat with best-selling author Laura Vanderkam about her new book, The New Corner Office: How the Most Successful People Work From Home. Join us on Tuesday, August 4 at 1:00 pm ET.
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A Step in the Right Direction for Foster Kids


The shortage of foster families in every state and county in the U.S. is a truism verging on a cliché. Utah recently announced that it had 2,700 children in foster care, with only about 1,400 foster families. A recent survey in Virginia found that “79 percent of respondents identified a shortage of foster families in their localities.” A new executive order requires more vigorous data collection for identifying families most likely to take in foster children. It’s hard to believe that states don’t already do this. Child-welfare agencies are looking for safe, stable, and loving homes for tens of thousands of kids, yet they don’t have basic information about the kinds of families willing to do this vital work.
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President Trump Should Reject Federal Land Grabs


The lofty-sounding Great American Outdoors Act recently passed the Senate and is poised to become law. But there’s nothing great about the legislation. The act creates a massive, permanent and mandatory expense line-item in the yearly American budget for the purchase of federal land. Not only is this federal land grab at odds with the Constitution, but with nearly one-third of the United States already in federal hands, one has to wonder: why does the national government need more land? 
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The View’s Joy Behar Is Wrong About Education Funding Cuts


The View co-host Joy Behar launched an attack on the Trump administration and Republicans generally for allegedly not caring about education. In today’s dollars, per-pupil spending has nearly doubled between 1980 and 2015. Today, the per-pupil average in the United States is close to $17,000, much more than the typical American guesses we spend in surveys. (Three out of five people think public schools actually get less than $5,000 per student, a figure less than a third of the real expenditure). Joy may have been a teacher, but according to the hard data, she's just flat-out wrong: education spending has actually increased in real dollars over the last few decades.
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