Posts Tagged ‘jonas’

Jonas Vingegaard, King of the Mountains, Wins Tour de France

King of the mountains. Champion on the Champs-Elysees. Jonas Vingegaard blossomed from a talented rookie to a dominant leader in his own right over three weeks of epic racing to win his first Tour de France title on Sunday. The former fish factory worker from Denmark dethroned defending champion Tadej Pogacar with memorable performances in […]

Children’s Book Tells The Story of Dr. Jonas Salk and the Polio Vaccine

When Linda Marshall was growing up in the 1950s, she and her friends couldn’t go to the movies, swimming pools, ponds or lakes during the summer out of fear of catching polio. One year, the outbreak was so bad that her family left Boston, where the disease was spreading rapidly, and stayed in Hartford with […]

Among the settlers

On my first night in an Israeli settlement, David served chicken soup left over from Sabbath at his daughter’s house and told me an unsettling story about the birth of Israel. His great uncle had escaped Europe to come to a Jewish kibbutz called Ein Harod. On the next hill was a Palestinian village. When […]

Mysterious earth crack nearly a kilometer in length terrifies residents of Aponte, Colombia

     What started with a small fissure in early 2015 is today a giant mysterious earth crack nearly a kilometer in length that crosses the village of Aponte, Colombia. The crack has caused enormous damage to roads and houses in the village of Aponte in Nariño. At least 210 families are affected by this geological […]

Zika virus: Information about the latest global health scare

     You may not have heard of it until very recently, but new cases of the Zika virus continue to pop up around the world. Spreading mostly in Latin America and the Caribbean, the virus has now been confirmed in three travelers from the UK. A statement from Public Health England said those infected had […]

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