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Translate Bio, Sanofi COVID-19 vaccine candidate produces immune response in animal studies
FILE PHOTO: A logo is seen in front of the entrance at the headquarters French drugmaker Sanofi in Paris October 30, 2014. REUTERS/Christian Hartmann(Reuters) – Translate Bio Inc (TBIO.O) said on Tuesday that an experimental coronavirus vaccine it developed with French drugmaker Sanofi SA (SASY.PA) induced immune response in non-human studies, with trials in humans…
Covid Checks and Quarantines: Colleges Brace for an Dangerous Fall
Published Aug. 2, 2020Updated Aug. 22, 2020This month, many colleges around the country plan to welcome back thousands of students into something they hope will resemble normal campus life. But they face challenges unlike any other American institution — containing the coronavirus among a young, impulsive population that not only studies together, but lives together,…
What to Know Relating to the Pac-12 within the Fall
Aug. 17, 2020ImageThe Pac-12 won’t play football in the fall, but may try to play in the spring.Credit…Thomas Graning/Associated PressGood morning.College sports sit squarely at the intersection of knotted debates over how to address longstanding racial inequity, workers’ rights, and how to safely reopen college campuses in the midst of a pandemic.Of course, California colleges…
What It Methodology to Home-College
Aug. 18, 2020In December of last year, the parenting team decided that we wanted to do a series of articles about home-schoolers. We wanted to take a closer look at this diverse, passionate and growing movement.Then the pandemic hit. Though distance learning isn’t the same as home-schooling, coronavirus-related school closures made millions of parents much…
Training Dept.’s Civil Rights Chief Steps Down Amid Controversy
Published July 27, 2020Updated July 28, 2020WASHINGTON — The Education Department’s civil rights chief has for 40 years labored to enforce civil rights protections in the nation’s schools and universities, but few in the position have attracted as much attention as Kenneth L. Marcus, who will leave the post this week after two years marked…
Collin Morikawa’s Contented Opt Broke Thru Golf’s Pandemic Fog
win the P.G.A. Championship at San Francisco’s T.P.C. Harding Park, becoming the long-overdue first major champion of 2020. Then came the comic relief, the sheepish smile as the top of the trophy went astray.After Morikawa made two unforgettable shots to emerge from a throng of tenacious contenders on the back nine Sunday, it was tempting…
The Females Who Fought In opposition to the Vote
Published Aug. 14, 2020Updated Aug. 19, 2020The sinking of the Titanic in 1912 inspired a flood of articles on seemingly every aspect of the disaster. One of the oddest appeared in The Woman’s Protest, a journal dedicated to opposing women’s suffrage.In “The Lesson that Came from the Sea,” Josephine Jewell Dodge, a leading anti-suffragist, noted…
Dr. Alyce Gullattee, Expert on Substance Abuse, Dies at 91
Obituaries|Dr. Alyce Gullattee, Expert on Substance Abuse, Dies at 91here.For more than half a century, Dr. Alyce Gullattee treated countless drug addicts, AIDS patients and prostitutes in Washington, even if it meant taking to some of the city’s more dangerous streets to help those in desperate need.“Dr. G,” as she was affectionately called by patients,…
A College Athlete Calls His Coach to Opt Out. And Ends Up on the Outs.
Published Aug. 3, 2020Updated Aug. 10, 2020College athletes have begun challenging a longstanding pillar, that the college sports industrial complex must hum along — as if straight from the pages of “Das Kapital” — on the fuel of exploited labor. Their labor.Yet, to better understand how the modern-day dynamic works — and why players are…
The Arc of Fatherland Security Bends In the direction of Trump. Chad Wolf Bends With It.
Aug. 4, 2020WASHINGTON — It took only 24 hours after President Trump attacked New York City in his State of the Union address for the president’s man at the Department of Homeland Security to act.Chad F. Wolf had joined the department nearly two decades before as a midlevel staff member to help the sprawling new…
