Six Childhood Scourges We’ve Forgotten About, Thanks to Vaccines

Most Americans, including doctors, have no memory of the devastating diseases that routinely threatened children until the 1960s.

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Has college football flag-planting really become a nationwide scourge in the US?

Michigan and Ohio State players brawled after the Wolverines beat their archrivals in their own backyard. But is legislative action really needed?. For Ohio State, a home loss to Michigan on 30 ...
The Guardian - 1d
New eras, same bubbles: the forgotten lessons of history

With US equities at record valuation peaks, investors should re-examine their risk appetite
Financial Times - 3d
'My childhood sweetheart took £42k from me'

Alice, of Shropshire, says she is a romance fraud victim of a man who was her childhood sweetheart.
BBC News - 3d
Jamie Foxx thanks fans for hearing 'testimony' about his stroke in stand-up special

Jamie Foxx thanked fans for streaming his new Netflix special 'What Had Happened Was,' a 'testimony' about his 2023 brain bleed and stroke.
Los Angeles Times - 3d
The fight against Linda McMahon is nothing new — we’ve seen this show before

The double standard at the Department of Education has nothing to do with competence and everything to do with the fact that McMahon has an R instead of a D next to her name.
The Hill - 6d
Jonathan Bailey: 11 Roles You'd Forgotten He Played Before Wicked

He shared the screen with Olivia Colman, Michaela Coel and Phoebe Waller-Bridge before Bridgerton and Wicked came calling.
Yahoo Sports - Dec. 7
Childhood Friends, Now Jewelry Partners

Iris de La Villardière and Thomas Montier Leboucher have spent the past few years expanding their brand, Viltier.
The New York Times - Dec. 5
We’ve Never Been Closer to Finding Life Outside Our Solar System

Thanks to the James Webb Space Telescope, we may have spotted a galactic neighbor with all the right molecular ingredients a mere 40 light-years away.
Wired - Dec. 5
‘We’ve seen this before’: residents of rebel-held Aleppo fear regime onslaught

Syria’s second largest city braces for possibility of president Bashar al-Assad revisiting brutal tactics used in civil war. A billboard of the Syrian president that once overlooked a central ...
The Guardian - Dec. 4