But in early March, after about two months of aggressive containment measures, things started to change. The number of cases started decreasing; China’s leader, Xi Jinping, paid a visit to Wuhan, the city at the epicenter of the outbreak; and life has started to slowly return to normal. Yaneer Bar-Yam, a physicist and the founding […]
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The first day that players’ representatives could talk with teams wound up being more about trades than free agents By BARRY WILNER AP Pro Football Writer March 16, 2020, 10:16 PM 3 min read Things just got hotter on offense in the desert. The first day that players’ representatives could talk with teams wound up
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Many of the federal government’s health workers were left wondering who needed to report to the office. In the more than 80,000-person Department of Health and Human Services, Washington-based employees reported on Monday morning without any kind of uniform plan, unsure of how long they might be in the office or whether their colleagues had
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Amazon says it needs to hire 100,000 people across the U.S. to keep up with a crush of orders as the coronavirus spreads and keeps more people at home, shopping online By JOSEPH PISANI AP Retail Writer March 16, 2020, 10:10 PM 2 min read NEW YORK — Amazon said Monday that it needs to
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With the new coronavirus continuing to be a front-and-center issue, health care workers are working double time. They’re providing comfort and care to those who have COVID-19, screening potential patients and fielding questions from everyone else. We’ve all been told to get plenty of sleep, wash our hands and keep away from crowds ― but
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True to their rebellious ― and politically charged ― spirit, the Dixie Chicks “needed to get mad again” before they felt ready to head into the studio. On Monday, the country pop trio dropped by “The Ellen DeGeneres Show” to kick off a new musical era. Due out May 1, “Gaslighter” is the band’s eighth album and their first full-length
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The economic slowdown that the coronavirus pandemic has unleashed is likely to hurt millions of workers around the country as schools and restaurants close and businesses go dark. Many of the first to suffer have been workers in unconventional arrangements: independent contractors, part-time workers and others whose income varies from one week to the next.
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Brown has promoted Heather Marini to quarterbacks coach, making her the first female position coach in Division I football March 16, 2020, 9:26 PM 2 min read PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Brown has promoted Heather Marini to quarterbacks coach, making her the first female position coach in Division I . A native of Australia, Marini spent
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PHOENIX — Supermarket shelves are barren. Schools are closing across the country. But in Arizona, many Democrats are hoping that voting in the presidential primary provides a slice of normalcy at a time that is anything but normal. “I want to believe that voting takes away some of the fear,” said Dawn Schumann, the political
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On a recent day on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, traders were cheek-to-cheek as stock prices flashed above them. They stood in clusters shouting, sharing screens, sharing pizza, sharing pens. They shook hands, leaned over shoulders, patted each others’ backs, hugged. There were no windows open. The New York Stock Exchange was
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