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Sunday, August 16, 2020
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What do Boston Marathon bombing survivors want federal prosecutors to do next?
The overturning of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s death sentence has sent tremors of anxiety across the community of survivors and relatives of those killed in the attack, many of whom are still recovering from their physical and emotional wounds.
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The Great Divide
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Your child’s a no-show at virtual school? You may get a call from the state’s foster care agency
Interviews with parents, advocates, attorneys, and reviews of documents indicate that Massachusetts school officials have reported dozens of parents — almost always the mothers of low-income families — to state social workers for concerns related to online learning.
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Shirley Leung
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Coronavirus is making Corporate America realize that child care isn’t someone else’s problem
Back to school is among the happiest times of year for parents — but not in 2020. Some employers are realizing the outsize role they can play to help working parents.
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Shirley Leung
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A stream of personal wealth is defining, and dividing, the Democratic race for Kennedy seat
All nine candidates on the ballot hail from Brookline, Newton, or Wellesley, all wealthy Boston suburbs.
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A new approach to ALS drug trials gives patients hope
Mass. General will lead the simultaneous testing of multiple potential treatments for the deadly disease. Despite at least 50 clinical trials of potential drugs since 1995, only two medications have been approved to slow the progression of the deadly degenerative neurological disease, and neither is all that effective.
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The Nation
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As colleges move classes online, families rebel against the cost
Incensed at paying face-to-face prices for education that is increasingly online, students and their parents are demanding tuition rebates, increased financial aid, reduced fees, and leaves of absences to compensate for what they feel will be a diminished college experience.
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‘We’re clearly not doing enough’: Drop in testing hampers coronavirus response
For months, public health experts and federal officials have said that significantly expanding the number of coronavirus tests administered in the United States is essential to reining in the pandemic. By some estimates, several million people might need to be tested each day, including many people who don’t feel sick.
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Robert Trump, the president’s younger brother, dead at 71
President Donald Trump’s younger brother, Robert Trump, a businessman known for an even keel that seemed almost incompatible with the family name, died Saturday night after being hospitalized in New York, the president said in a statement. He was 71.
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FBI team arrives this weekend to take part in Beirut probe
A team of FBI investigators was due to arrive in Lebanon this weekend to take part in the probe of Beirut’s massive explosion, a senior US official said Saturday after visiting the location of the blast.
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Japanese politicians mark war anniversary at contentious shrine
Four Japanese Cabinet ministers, including a rising political star seen as a potential prime minister, marked the 75th anniversary of World War II’s end on Saturday by visiting Yasukuni Shrine, a memorial with strong links to Japan’s imperial past.
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Coronavirus crisis has made Brazil an ideal vaccine laboratory
With sustained widespread contagion, a deep bench of immunization experts, a robust medical manufacturing infrastructure, and thousands of vaccine trial volunteers, Brazil has emerged as a potentially vital player in the global scramble to end the pandemic.
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Editorial & Opinion
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Keep thinking big on the Allston Interchange
The state and activists should compromise on a solution that is not a throwback to 1960s transportation projects but a vision for a thriving, accessible waterfront and public transit corridor.
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OPINION
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Why we need more Black nurses
'Just being who I am allows other people to feel more open and more secure.'
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OPINION
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Kamala Harris is ready. Black women are always ready.
Trump is intimidated by fierce, intelligent Black women. That's why he doesn't know what to do with the California senator.
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YVONNE ABRAHAM
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With Trump, it’s a case of mail fraud
The GOP has spent decades convincing Americans that government is useless, or worse. So of course the President thinks messing with the mail to win the election won't cost him.
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YVONNE ABRAHAM
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North End feast endures online: The angel flies virtually this year
The streets of the North End are quiet this year, but an angel has flown again, carrying on a Sicilian tradition that dates back over century in Boston.
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Boston’s latest school reopening plan emphasizes parent choice, but only if the virus allows it
School officials released their latest school reopening plan on Saturday, one day after filing the 88-page document with the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education. It remains unclear when officials will decide whether they can reopen classrooms at the start of the school year.
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Even without David Pastrnak and Tuukka Rask, Bruins beat Hurricanes to take 2-1 lead in series
Charlie Coyle had a goal and an assist, Sean Kuraly (shorthanded) and Brad Marchand (empty net) also scored, while Jaroslav Halak made 29 saves as the Bruins won Game 3 in Toronto.
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Bruins are sympathetic, but know it’s time to move on from Tuukka Rask
Even in the age of COVID-19, the goalie's disappearing act - his second in two seasons - likely will force the Bruins' hand.
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On Baseball
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They’re history: Red Sox pitching officially reached a new low on Saturday
By allowing 11 runs to the Yankees in a sixth straight loss, the Red Sox laid claim to a franchise first. And the worst, somehow, might still be to come.
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A new approach to ALS drug trials gives patients hope
Mass. General will lead the simultaneous testing of multiple potential treatments for the deadly disease. Despite at least 50 clinical trials of potential drugs since 1995, only two medications have been approved to slow the progression of the deadly degenerative neurological disease, and neither is all that effective.
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Shirley Leung
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Coronavirus is making Corporate America realize that child care isn’t someone else’s problem
Back to school is among the happiest times of year for parents — but not in 2020. Some employers are realizing the outsize role they can play to help working parents.
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Even Canada is down on the United States
Relations with our northern neighbor have gone south in a hurry.
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IDEAS
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Why doesn’t medical school prioritize social justice?
If academic medical institutions are serious about equity, work in the community should be celebrated as much as research papers are.
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BOOK REVIEW
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Expert shares amazing anecdotes in ‘Tales From the Ant World’
Ants just naturally prompt comparisons with space aliens, and renowned naturalist and emeritus Harvard University professor Edward O. Wilson isn’t two pages into his latest book, “Tales From the Ant World,” before he’s making the comparison himself.
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BIBLIOPHILES
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Bibliophiles: Reading poetry, meditating on religion
As a very young writer Jay Parini somehow managed to befriend some of the literary lions of the 20th century, Alistair Reid, Graham Greene, Gore Vidal, and Jorge Luis Borges. Parini recounts his unforgettable week with the Latin American genius in his new memoir “Borges and Me.”
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Too close to home: When the COVID-19 shutdown leads to divorce, how to sell your property amicably.
So the pandemic has pushed your marital woes over the brink. It's possible to keep the peace and sell your home. | realestate.boston.com
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Home of the Week: A Saugus four-bedroom with a snazzy ‘she shed'
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