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2 months ago | 
washingtonpost.com | Leslie Shapiro |Daniel Wolfe |Hannah Natanson |Chris Dehghanpoor
Documents obtained by The Washington Post detail step-by-step plans the U.S. DOGE Service developed to purge federal agencies of diversity, equity, and inclusion workers and offices. DOGE, which stands for Department of Government Efficiency, aims next to target hundreds of non-DEI workers and what they called “corrupted branches” of offices required by law, which protect civil and employment rights.
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Jan 16, 2025 | 
washingtonpost.com | Daniel Wolfe |Aaron Steckelberg
The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power and parts of Los AngelesCounty have issued“do not drink” and “do not boil” notices to residents in the Palisades,Altadena and neighboring communities. Wildfires that encroach into cities risk introducing harmful chemicals otherwise known as volatile organic compounds (VOCs) into the municipal water system. Experts say it will take weeks forthese utilitiesto determine the extent of any contamination and months before remediation takes place.
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Nov 19, 2024 | 
mdpi.com | Daniel Wolfe |Geoffrey Dover |Mathieu Boily |Maryse Fortin
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Mar 26, 2024 | 
washingtonpost.com | Lauren Tierney |Justin Jouvenal |Imogen Piper |Sarah Cahlan |Daniel Wolfe |William Neff
Rescuers suspended a search for survivors on Tuesday evening after a massive container ship struck Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge in the early morning, causing it to collapse into the Patapsco River below, officials said.
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Jan 9, 2024 | 
washingtonpost.com | Alyssa Fowers |Daniel Wolfe |Kate Rabinowitz |Samuel Granados |Tim Meko
Thousands of travelers have been affected by the grounding of Boeing 737 Max 9 jets after part of an Alaska Airlines plane wall blew off in midair Friday. Before the accident, roughly 600 flights took off daily with Max 9s that had a similar configuration, according to the tracking site Flightradar24. About 60 percent of those flights were within the continental United States, but 40 or so flights crossed the Pacific daily, flying to and from Hawaii.
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Dec 15, 2023 | 
washingtonpost.com | Daniel Wolfe
Filming and snow don’t mix. Not only are the bright lights for filming enough to make Frosty theSnowmansweat, the logistical headache of timing and shooting on location with nature’s chilly dandruff makes for one unpredictable castmate. That’s why for decades Hollywood directors and special effects artists figured out a slurry of tricks to make movie magic with the white stuff. Now let’sseeif you can be fooled or not. Take a minute with the quiz and see if you can tell thedifference.
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Nov 3, 2023 | 
washingtonpost.com | Daniel Wolfe
Clean water was already hard to come by in Gaza before the war. Now, as fuel runs out and only small amounts of aid are allowed in, it is becoming nearly impossible to find. Palestinians in Gaza spend their days figuring out where to get water and how to divide what they have among family members, even as they seek shelter from Israeli airstrikes. UNRWA, the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees, has warned that “people will start dying without clean water.”On Oct.
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Aug 28, 2023 | 00328-5/abstract&sz=64)
thelancet.com | Daniel Wolfe |Michel D. Kazatchkine |Joanne Liu
SummaryPandemic preparedness and response have relied primarily on market dynamics to drive development and availability of new health products. Building on calls for transformation, we propose a new value proposition that instead prioritises equity from the research and development (R&D) stage and that strengthens capacity to control outbreaks when and where they occur.
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Jul 14, 2023 | 
mdpi.com | Daniel Wolfe |Brent Rosenstein |Maryse Fortin
Open AccessSystematic ReviewbyDaniel Wolfe 1, Brent Rosenstein 1 and Maryse Fortin 1,2,3,* 1Department Health Kinesiology and Applied Physiology, Concordia University, Montreal, QC H4B 1R6, Canada2PERFORM Centre, Concordia University, Montreal, QC H4B 1R6, Canada3Centre de Recherche Interdisciplinaire en Réadaptation (CRIR), Montreal, QC H4B 1T3, Canada*Author to whom correspondence should be addressed. J. Clin. Med.
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Jun 29, 2023 | 
washingtonpost.com | Janice Chen |Daniel Wolfe
State affirmative action bans helped White, Asian students, hurt othersWhile highly selective schools saw diversity decline, data shows other schools saw growthJune 29, 2023 at 6:00 a.m. EDTComment on this storyCommentSupreme Court decisions are expected later this week on two affirmative action cases, which could ban the use of race-conscious admissions policies at public and private places of higher education.
