Grouse Creek, Utah, is about as off the beaten path as a town can be. To access this sleepy community, you have to cross miles of dirt and gravel roads over hilly terrain. A tiny two-pump gas station is the town’s only commercial building, along with a Bureau of Land Management bunkhouse, a shed-like post…
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LUGANO, 31 October, 2020 – Research presented today at EADV’s 29th Congress, EADV Virtual, shows hope that a form of vitamin B3 could protect skin cells from the effects of ultraviolet (UV) exposure: the main risk factor for non-melanoma skin cancers (1). Researchers in Italy isolated cells (human primary keratinocytes) from the skin of patients…
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LUGANO, 31 October, 2020 – New research (1) launched at the 29th EADV Congress, EADV Virtual, has found that despite the COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2) lockdown restrictions, diagnosis of sexually transmitted infections (STIs), including gonorrhoea, secondary syphilis and mycoplasma genitalium (MG), have increased. The research, conducted in two main STI centres in Milan, Italy, compared the number…
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Cruise ships can prepare to set sail again beginning Sunday under a conditional order issued by U.S. health officials that aims to mitigate the risk of Covid-19 transmission at sea by requiring a host of measures, including testing and quarantine, all designed to keep crews and passengers safe. No ship will set sail with passengers…
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Friday lifted its “no sail” order on U.S. cruise ships and set out a framework for how cruising could restart. Under the new structure, cruise companies must demonstrate adherence to stringent health and safety protocols including extensive testing, quarantine measures and social distancing. If they meet these…
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It was that ghastliest of hours — 3 a.m. — bedtime a distant memory and daylight an eternity away. In the silence of his Salisbury, Conn., house, the interior designer Matthew Patrick Smyth jolted awake. Semiconscious, he felt himself in a strange state of turmoil, his thoughts a tangled skein of hopes and expectations, though…
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Welcome. Daylight saving time ends this weekend, clocks “falling back” one hour to standard time on Sunday. Depending on where you live, this may mean earlier morning light and sunsets that strike in the afternoon. Larks and owls have been having it out over the utility of changing the clocks since the practice was instituted…
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This obituary is part of a series about people who have died in the coronavirus pandemic. Read about others here. Enzo Mari, an irascible industrial designer, artist and polemicist who made simple, beautiful objects, including toys and traffic bollards, that delighted generations of Italians and design buffs all over the world, died on Oct. 19…
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As Halloween draws near, spooky happenings and ghost stories abound. But for Allyson McOuat, a writer in Toronto, eerie visitations became a year-round phenomenon when she moved into a three-story Victorian house that had been owned by a couple who died tragically. Ms. McOuat tried to ignore the flickering lights and the empty rocking chair…
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As a veteran television journalist, Sally-Ann Roberts knows how to tame an unsteady landscape and will it into submission. She survived 40 years reporting and anchoring the news for WWL-TV in New Orleans, covering 10 races for mayor and in 2005, Hurricane Katrina, a storm that submerged four-fifths of the city in water and left…
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