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Elissa Nadworny/NPR hide caption toggle caption Elissa Nadworny/NPR A social studies class at Campton Elementary School in Wolfe County, Ky. Elissa Nadworny/NPR The way Daphne Patton remembers it, it was more money than she'd ever seen. It was 1990, and the Kentucky Supreme Court had declared the state's school funding system unconstitutional. Patton, an elementary school teacher from Wolfe County in eastern Kentucky, says schools had an abundance of resources, "everything we needed.
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The child was stricken by polio even though her parents say she received a government-administered polio vaccine. Anthony Kuhn/NPR hide caption toggle caption Anthony Kuhn/NPR Dong Xiaoxin carries her daughter Yin Jiayue as she protests outside government health authority offices in Beijing. The child was stricken by polio even though her parents say she received a government-administered polio vaccine. Why a Tibetan couple’s wedding photos captivated the world. Larry Wilmore's Correspondents' Dinner Jokes and What They Meant. Georgia McDowell was born the daughter of farmers and teachers in North Carolina in 1902.
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They belong to a graduate student who became homeless while enrolled at the university and found shelter with the nonprofit Homeless Helping Homeless. Your gut bacteria are more than what you eat. Like it or not, the microbes in and on our bodies play a big role in human health and disease.
Yet we still don’t know what determines the exact makeup of these invisible communities and how they vary within populations. Now, two large-scale studies show that factors once thought to be critical, such as natural versus cesarean birth, breastfeeding, or body mass index, don't matter as much as researchers had thought. Chinese Woman’s Mundane Query Turns Into Surreal Court Scuffle.
BEIJING — Months of bureaucratic surrealism culminated last week with Ye Jinghuan, 63, a retired manager at a major Chinese company, sprawled on the floor in a Beijing court building and served with a 15-day detention order, together with four of her friends.
The episode at a branch of the Xicheng District Court has deepened a sense among Ms. Ye’s friends and some lawyers that ’s police and justice systems are seriously broken, despite the promises of President Xi Jinping and other officials to “rule the country by law.” Radiohead Thinks the Internet Is Turning Us All Into Creeps. Donald Trump, Nate Silver, and the Value of Data Journalism. Breaking Down The Science Of Picky Eating. Tim Lee/The News & Observer/MCT Graphics via Getty Images Pork shoulder, cauliflower and cheese curds are all trending in 2016, according to Google's tracking of food-related searches.
That list might either nauseate you or make your mouth water. Our food preferences are intensely personal, but scientists have tried to figure out why some people are so picky about the things they eat. Vaccine against stress and anxiety made using dead gut microbes of yore. Cleanliness may be next to godliness.
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