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A practice baseball game yesterday in Alexandria, Va., was to have been a warmup for the real thing today at Nationals Park in Washington, D.C. The bipartisan charity event will go on as scheduled, even though James Hodgkinson, a 66-year-old Illinois man, could have scuttled the game entirely. Hodgkins, said to be an avowed Trump critic, turned up at the …
David Talbot has authored books on US political history, and writes a column at the San Francisco Chronicle.
AMHERST, Mass. – A new study led by associate professor Rebecca Ready in the department of psychological and brain sciences at the University of Massachusetts Amherst has found that older adults have different, more positive responses than young adults about feelings such as serenity, sadness and loneliness. Ready calls the findings “highly clinically significant” because the information could help caregivers, …
Yves here. I’m a bit late to weigh in on the scurrilous attacks on the Sanders budget plan, and more important, on Gerald Friedman, a UMass-Amherst economics professor who modeled it in detail and gave it favorable marks. Full disclosure: I know Friedman but only casually, having met him at speaking events and conferences. I have also cross posted some …
Northeastern University researchers have found that the badÂterium that causes Lyme disÂease forms forÂmant perÂsister cells, which are known to evade antibiÂotics. This sigÂnifÂiÂcant finding, they said, could help explain why it’s so difÂfiÂcult to treat the infecÂtion in some patients. “It hasn’t been entirely clear why it’s difÂfiÂcult to treat the pathogen with antibiÂotics since there has been no …
