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@ Cynthia Adina Kirkwood
- May 17, 2020
- 8 min
Lies About Sweden in COVID-19 Crisis
Social distancing at a city park entrance in Gothenburg (By Adam Ihse/Reuters) Sweden has been misunderstood and, in some cases,...
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@ Cynthia Adina Kirkwood
- Apr 26, 2020
- 5 min
Healthy Race for COVID-19 Vaccine
University of Oxford researchers began testing a COVID-19 vaccine in humans. About 1,100 volunteers will take part in the trial. Half...
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@ Cynthia Adina Kirkwood
- Apr 25, 2020
- 4 min
COVID-19 Smartphone Contact Tracing
Digital contact tracing is already underway in Singapore, South Korea and China (Heiko Junge/NTB Scanpix/AFP via Getty Images) Public...
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@ Cynthia Adina Kirkwood
- Apr 21, 2020
- 6 min
Sitting Out “War”: COVID-19 Antibody Tests
A Long Island, New York, resident was screened for novel coronavirus antibodies in Hempstead on April 18 (Seth Wenig/Associated Press)...
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@ Cynthia Adina Kirkwood
- Apr 19, 2020
- 8 min
Blacks, COVID-19: Chance for Change
People, who believe they have COVID-19, wait on line to be tested in Brooklyn, New York (Photo by Telangana Today) “When America catches...
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@ Cynthia Adina Kirkwood
- Apr 15, 2020
- 6 min
Mass Graves: Mass Mournings
Burying unclaimed victims of COVID-19 in New York's Potter's Field (Photo by Lucas Jackson/Reuters) Is New York digging trenches for mass...
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@ Cynthia Adina Kirkwood
- Apr 13, 2020
- 7 min
AIDS and COVID-19: Silent Prejudice
An ACT UP poster that drew attention to AIDS, which the Reagan administration ignored The last virus epidemic that touched my life was...
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@ Cynthia Adina Kirkwood
- Apr 5, 2020
- 3 min
Covid-19 Slams Culturally Rich Queens, N.Y.
U.S. Navy Ship Comfort passes the Statue of Liberty as it enters New York harbor. It has 1,000 beds to relieve pressure on hospitals...
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@ Cynthia Adina Kirkwood
- Mar 31, 2020
- 4 min
Walden Lost: COVID-19
Philosopher Henry David Thoreau lived on the shore of Walden Pond in Massachusetts We want to breathe. All of us in Portugal, Europe, the...
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@ Cynthia Adina Kirkwood
- Mar 6, 2020
- 7 min
Ruling Party Rewrites History
Readers will remember the chilling warning, "Big Brother is watching you," in Nineteen Eighty-Four. Depending on their age, a different...
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@ Cynthia Adina Kirkwood
- Feb 23, 2020
- 3 min
Yes, Mr. President, "Parasite" Was the Best
Director Bong Joon-ho's film also won Best Director, Best Original Screenplay and Best International Feature Film The Kims live in a...
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@ Cynthia Adina Kirkwood
- Feb 19, 2020
- 1 min
Writers Applaud Human Gallantry
John Steinbeck Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech in 1962 “The writer is delegated to declare and to celebrate man's proven capacity for...
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@ Cynthia Adina Kirkwood
- Feb 17, 2020
- 1 min
Obama's Photographer Had Portuguese Grandparents
Pete Souza, President Barack Obama's photographer, took this photo on Presidents' Day eight years ago. Souza, born in New Bedford,...
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@ Cynthia Adina Kirkwood
- Feb 15, 2020
- 4 min
From "Tricky Dick" Nixon to Flim-Flam Man Trump
“Colored people don’t like Little Black Sambo. Burn it. White people don’t feel good about Uncle Tom’s Cabin. Burn it. Someone’s written...
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