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From east to west, new MLCA head answers a calling
MOSES LAKE — Moses Lake Christian Academy’s new administrator traveled a long way to answer the call. “I wanted…
Lockdowns mean millions of women can't reach birth control
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — The callers were in tears. One by one, women in homes across rural Zimbabwe had a pleading question: When would family planning services return?
On our own: Forgotten household skills, revived for new use
Mending clothes. Cutting hair. Fixing a squeaky door or a dripping faucet. Baking bread.
VIRUS DIARY: Isolation and patience on a quiet Gaza farm
BEIT LAHIYEH, Gaza Strip (AP) — I haven't spent more than a single night at my family's farm on the northern edge of Gaza since an Israeli airstrike killed my father there more than a decade ago. But the arrival of…
103-year-old Italian says 'courage, faith' helped beat virus
ROME (AP) — To recover from the coronavirus, as she did, Ada Zanusso recommends courage and faith, the same qualities that have served her well in her nearly 104 years.
Pandemic deals blow to plastic bag bans, plastic reduction
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Just weeks ago, cities and even states across the U.S. were busy banning straws, limiting takeout containers and mandating that shoppers bring reusable bags or pay a small fee as the movement …
Summer camps facing rocky start, uncertain future
NEW YORK (AP) — For 17-year-old Morgan Carney, missing her seventh summer at overnight camp in the Ozarks would be worse than what she's feeling now in isolation without her school friends and usual slate of activi…
Hopeful birdsong, foreboding sirens: A pandemic in sound
NEW YORK (AP) — Hopeful birdsong and foreboding sirens. Chiming church bells and bleating ferry horns.
Cats, dogs, Quillie the hedgehog source of comfort in crisis
NEW YORK (AP) —
The howling: Americans let it out from depths of pandemic
DENVER (AP) — It starts with a few people letting loose with some tentative yelps. Then neighbors emerge from their homes and join, forming a roiling chorus of howls and screams that pierces the twilight to end ano…
VIRUS DIARY: `The most Passover of Passovers I've ever had'
NEW YORK (AP) — Every year, it’s the same. I return to my childhood home in Phoenix for Passover, my favorite holiday, with my parents, sisters and our family friends, the Zvidas. For a quarter century, the Arbel-Z…
Lockdowns mean millions of women can't reach birth control
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — The callers were in tears. One by one, women in homes across rural Zimbabwe had a pleading question: When would family planning services return?
On our own: Forgotten household skills, revived for new use
Mending clothes. Cutting hair. Fixing a squeaky door or a dripping faucet. Baking bread.
VIRUS DIARY: Isolation and patience on a quiet Gaza farm
BEIT LAHIYEH, Gaza Strip (AP) — I haven't spent more than a single night at my family's farm on the northern edge of Gaza since an Israeli airstrike killed my father there more than a decade ago. But the arrival of…
VIRUS DIARY: Life with an essential worker is a daily dance
ATLANTA (AP) — The daily dance begins when he arrives at the door. I meet him, prop the door open and quickly take a few steps backward. I don't want to get too close yet. He slips off his shoes without touching th…
Edmunds: Safe ways to car shop during the pandemic
With the country effectively shut down and the economy upended by the coronavirus pandemic, buying a car is likely a low priority on people’s minds. But people still need transportation. And for those shoppers stab…