Karen Kaplan, science and medicine editor for The L.A. Times: If you want to know why public health officials are so nervous about how much worse the COVID-19 pandemic will get as the holiday season unfolds, consider what happened after a single, smallish wedding reception that took place this summer in rural Maine.

I am looking to read more Native American authors. Do you have any recs or historical books? Thanks.— Minda Harts (@MindaHarts) November 13, 2020

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Leave it as It Is is the most engaging and powerful book about Western public lands that I have read in a long time. Gessner published a terrific book in 2015 titled All the Wild That Remains: Edward Abbey, Wallace Stegner, and the American West, and I find some Abbey and Stegner in this new book, both in style and content. He traveled the West in search of Abbey and Stegner

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My wife @RebeccaSittler, a Nebraska native, reminded me today of why NE splits its electoral votes. If Biden does not win PA, NE's single electoral vote (from districts around Omaha) will be why he has 270. THIS lone blue dot. The reason is Ernie Chambers. pic.twitter.com/z2YVfannpi— Dr. Andrew R. Schrock (@aschrock) November 4, 2020

Many parents are dreading this awkward and challenging conversation. This article will help you to use this challenging time as an opportunity to connect with your kids.

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As continentally confined Americans look for domestic vacation options that won’t expose them to too much risk of infection from the pandemic that’s still raging across the country, the RV rental company RVshare has raised more than $100 million to capitalize on its historic opportunity. The company’s new cash has come from the private equity […]

Over 100 years later — the company now with over 200 locations in 86 countries in 32 languages and 9 million graduates — our current pandemic has driven the company to reinvent itself as their business.

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September 30, 2020 Federal Hall - New York, NY Trumpeter Wynton Marsalis plays America's "unofficial anthem” — Amazing Grace — and explains how listening, im...

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