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Eleanor Holmes Norton is facing her most serious political threat in decades – Politico

Eleanor Holmes Norton is facing her most serious political threat in decades  Politico Eleanor Holmes Norton faces mounting pressure to retire  The Washington Post DC’s Del. Norton tells FOX News she’s not retiring  FOX 5 DC Brazile urges Holmes-Norton not to run for re-election: ‘We need a new champion’  The Hill DC Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton, age 88, faces a high-profile call to retire  NBC4 …

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Tooth Is Implanted in 34-year-old’s Eye to Restore His Vision After Two Decades

Tooth Is Implanted in 34-year-old’s Eye to Restore His Vision After Two Decades

Photo released as a courtesy Phil Chapman There’s an old Babylonian/Biblical legal maxim that goes, “an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth.” For Canadian Brent Chapman, his new maxim is “a tooth for an eye,” because he has become the first in his country ever to receive an osteo-odonto-keratoprosthesis. If your Latin is on point, you’ll realize …

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Coffee prices haven’t surged this much in decades

Coffee prices haven’t surged this much in decades

Facebook Tweet Email Link New York  —  Coffee drinkers are in for a jolt long before their first sip. Retail coffee prices in the United States in August jumped nearly 21% compared to the same month last year — the largest annual jump since October 1997, according to the latest Consumer Price Index, released Thursday. On a monthly basis, coffee …

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New ‘quasi-moon’ discovered in Earth orbit may have been hiding there for decades

New ‘quasi-moon’ discovered in Earth orbit may have been hiding there for decades

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. An illustration of an asteroid orbiting the sun alongside Earth, much like the potential new quasi-moon. | Credit: Zoonar GmbH / Alamy Stock Photo A new paper describes another possible “quasi-moon” of Earth, and the interloping asteroid may have been following our planet …

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Over three decades later, Nintendo remembers the Virtual Boy exists

Over three decades later, Nintendo remembers the Virtual Boy exists

It’s been a long wait Nintendo says 14 Virtual Boy titles will be made available to Switch Online Expansion Pack subscribers over time. The eventual software list includes cult-classic Nintendo first-party titles like Virtual Boy Wario Land and Mario’s Tennis, as well as extremely hard-to-find third-party games like Jack Bros. and Virtual Bowling, which can command hundreds or thousands of …

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Coffee prices haven’t surged this much in decades

Coffee prices haven’t surged this much in decades

Facebook Tweet Email Link New York  —  Coffee drinkers are in for a jolt long before their first sip. Retail coffee prices in the United States in August jumped nearly 21% compared to the same month last year — the largest annual jump since October 1997, according to the latest Consumer Price Index, released Thursday. On a monthly basis, coffee …

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New ‘quasi-moon’ discovered in Earth orbit may have been hiding there for decades

New ‘quasi-moon’ discovered in Earth orbit may have been hiding there for decades

A new paper describes another possible “quasi-moon” of Earth, and the interloping asteroid may have been following our planet around for decades, undetected. Quasi-moons, the Planetary Society states, are “like a gravitational sleight of hand.” They are asteroids, which — from our point of view on Earth — appear to be orbiting our planet like our permanent moon does. However, …

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Breakthrough cystic fibrosis drug that extends life by decades earns its developers a $250,000 ‘American Nobel’

Breakthrough cystic fibrosis drug that extends life by decades earns its developers a 0,000 ‘American Nobel’

Three scientists have won a $250,000 award for their contributions to developing a life-saving therapy for the genetic disease cystic fibrosis (CF). The prize, called the Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award, went to Dr. Michael Welsh of the University of Iowa, Paul Negulescu of Vertex Therapeutics and Jesús (Tito) González of Integro Theranostics. It’s one of this year’s Lasker Awards …

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