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Wed, Aug 5 2020

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Hello and welcome to my Nuzzel newsletter! I try to pick the most important stories of the day. Hope you enjoy the newsletter. Esther Wojcicki (Educator, journalist, IT & OER consultant)
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I Was Bloodied and Dazed. Beirut Strangers Treated Me Like a Friend.
The New York Times – Vivian Yee – Aug 4, 2020, 5:27 PM

BEIRUT — I was just about to look at a video a friend had sent me on Tuesday afternoon — “the port seems to be burning,” she said — when my whole building shook, as if startled, by the deepest boom I'd ever heard.

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The Pandemic's Biggest Mystery Is Our Own Immune System
The Atlantic – Aug 5, 2020, 4:00 AM

There's a joke about immunology, which Jessica Metcalf of Princeton recently told me. An immunologist and a cardiologist are kidnapped. The kidnappers threaten to shoot one of them, but promise to spare whoever has made the greater contribution to…

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Opinion | It's Not Just You. We've All Got a Case of the Covid-19 Blues.
The New York Times – Jennifer Senior – Aug 5, 2020, 2:00 AM

I am trying to think of when I first realized we'd all run smack into a wall. Was it two weeks ago, when a friend, ordinarily a paragon of wifely discretion, started a phone conversation with a boffo rant about her husband? Was it when I looked at…

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In These Neighborhoods, the Jobless Rate May Top 30 Percent
The New York Times – Quoctrung Bui – Aug 5, 2020, 2:00 AM

The economic damage from the coronavirus is most visible in areas like Midtown Manhattan, where lunch spots have closed, businesses have gone dark and once-crowded sidewalks have emptied. But some of the worst economic pain lies in other…

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After a Year of Investigation, the Border Patrol Has Little to Say About Agents' Misogynistic and Racist Facebook Group
ProPublica – A.C. Thompson – Aug 5, 2020, 2:00 AM

ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they're published. Brian Hastings, a top Border Patrol official, stared grimly at the television cameras. It was July 1, 2019…

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China Uighurs: A model's video gives a rare glimpse inside internment
BBC News – John Sudworth – Aug 4, 2020, 2:29 PM

Merdan Ghappar was used to posing for the camera. As a model for the massive Chinese online retailer Taobao, the 31-year-old was well paid to flaunt his good looks in slick promotional videos for clothing brands. But one video of Mr Ghappar is…

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German ambassador pick disparaged immigrants and refugees, called for martial law at US-Mexico border
CNN – By Em Steck and Andrew Kaczynski, CNN – Aug 4, 2020, 12:35 PM

(CNN) President Donald Trump's nominee to become the US ambassador to Germany has a history of making xenophobic and racist comments about immigrants and refugees in both Germany and the US. Retired Army Col. Douglas Macgregor, a decorated combat…

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Barron Trump's private school will begin with virtual classes only
CNN – By Kate Bennett, CNN – Aug 4, 2020, 12:21 PM

(CNN) Hours after President Donald Trump's Tuesday tweet to ' OPEN THE SCHOOLS!! ' the private school attended by Trump's youngest son has determined it will not open the school year with in-person learning. In a letter sent to parents and obtained…

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Federal agents are expelling asylum seekers as young as 8 months from the border, citing COVID-19 risks
The Texas Tribune – Lomi Kriel – Aug 4, 2020, 8:00 AM

This article is co-published with ProPublica, a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up for ProPublica's Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox as soon as they are published. Also, sign up for The…

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When Covid Subsided, Israel Reopened its Schools. It Didn't Go Well.
The New York Times – Isabel Kershner – Aug 4, 2020, 12:00 AM

JERUSALEM — As the United States and other countries anxiously consider how to reopen schools, Israel, one of the first countries to do so, illustrates the dangers of moving too precipitously. Confident it had beaten the coronavirus and…

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