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In the present day’s high tales
An Israeli airstrike in Rafah killed 35 folks and injured dozens of others, in line with Gaza’s Well being Ministry. The Israeli authorities had designated the realm as a secure and humanitarian zone for Palestinians sheltering from battle. Israel says it was focusing on a Hamas set up and killed two senior Hamas officers. The strike hit tents and brought on a hearth in an encampment.
Palestinians have a look at the destruction after an Israeli strike the place displaced folks have been staying in Rafah, Gaza Strip, Monday, Could 27, 2024.
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Jehad Alshrafi/AP/AP
- 🎧 NPR’s Hadeel Al-Shalchi tells Up First that earlier than this month, Rafah had been a “final refuge” for Palestinians. NPR producer in Gaza, Anas Baba, describes “complete destruction” on the scene. Emergency physician James Smith tells NPR the strike was the worst he is seen within the weeks he is been working in Rafah. Greater than 1 million Palestinians have been sheltering in Rafah. The U.N. says greater than 800,000 have fled since Israel expanded its navy operation there.
In the present day, Individuals observe Memorial Day and honor members of the navy who died whereas serving their nation. Half a century in the past, the households of Vietnam Warfare troops lacking in motion went to nice lengths to persuade the federal authorities to search out the stays of their family members and return them. Now, technological advances have virtually fully modified whose stays are being introduced dwelling — and who they’re being introduced dwelling to.
- 🎧 Jay Worth of NPR community station WUNC says the extraordinary lengths the U.S. authorities goes by to repatriate these stays are not like every other nation. The Protection Division goals to make 200 identifications a yr. Because the variety of stays from the Vietnam Warfare dwindles, many instances now come from WWII and the Korean Warfare. Discovering subsequent of kin for these navy members could be tough, however anthropologist Sarah Wagner of George Washington College says it is necessary work. “In the end, that is about belonging,” she says. “It’s about… the need of belonging and the necessity to handle its navy — previous, current, and future.”
As chook flu continues to contaminate herds of dairy cows, uncooked milk farmers are getting recent scrutiny. The extremely pathogenic pressure of flu that is lethal to birds has unfold to at the least 58 herds in 9 states and at the least two folks. USDA assessments discovered samples of the virus in unpasteurized milk. This milk is offered and simply accessible in lots of components of the nation regardless of federal authorities advising folks to not drink it. Earlier this month, NPR reporters bought uncooked milk in Texas and submitted it for testing. However when the USDA-approved lab approved to check the milk for the H5N1 chook flu virus known as the farms to search their permission to look at the milk, the farms stated no.
Deep Dive
Within the face of human-caused local weather change, paperbacks and e-readers include totally different professionals and cons with regards to assessing which is essentially the most sustainable studying format.
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Digital studying is on the rise — particularly audiobooks, in line with the Affiliation of American Publishers. An e-reader or an audiobook could be extra handy than carrying round a paperback. However which is extra environmentally pleasant? It relies on how voracious of a reader you’re. 📚 Print ebook publishing is the world’s third-largest industrial greenhouse fuel emitter. Within the U.S., 32 million bushes are lower down every year to make books.
- 📚 Some publishers are switching to on-demand printing and utilizing extra eco-friendly fonts to grow to be extra sustainable.
- 📚 Although digital units require no paper, their instances are made with fossil fuel-derived plastics and the minerals of their batteries require resource-heavy mining.
- 📚 It’s important to learn the equal of about 36 small paperback books earlier than you break even on the carbon footprint of an e-reader.
In the present day’s hear
Carol Leone, chair of piano research at Southern Methodist College’s Meadows Faculty of the Arts, performs there in 2016 on a Steinway grand piano rebuilt with a smaller keyboard by DS Normal.
Courtesy Hannah Reimann.
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Courtesy Hannah Reimann.
For folks with smaller palms, taking part in tough piano items like Rachmaninoff’s Third Piano Concerto could be actually unreachable. In reality, Josef Hofmann — a good friend of the Russian composer to whom the concerto was devoted — refused to carry out the piece publicly due to his smaller handspan. He demanded that the Steinway piano firm make him a narrower piano. In the present day, most piano firms nonetheless refuse to fabricate stretto (slim) keyboards. Pianist Hannah Reimann desires to alter this. Her Worldwide Stretto Piano Competition runs by June 4.
- 🎧 Hearken to among the music she performs on the stretto piano — which sounds the identical as music performed on a daily piano! And listen to Reimann clarify how stretto pianos can assist scale back accidents, assist youngsters study the instrument sooner and stage the taking part in subject between women and men in piano competitions.
3 issues to know earlier than you go
Bark Air formally launched this week, finishing its first flight from New York to Los Angeles on Thursday. It additionally flies to London, and goals so as to add extra routes within the coming months.
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- Canines will quickly be capable of get first-class airplane therapy. BARK Air describes itself as “the world’s first air journey expertise designed particularly for canine first, and their human companions second.”
- Who has time to look at a 4-hour YouTube video? Tens of millions of individuals (together with me), it seems. Pop Tradition Blissful Hour’s Glen Weldon ponders why YouTuber Jenny Nicholson’s evaluate/eulogy for the shuttered Disney Star Wars lodge was so profitable and the way well-made work attracts an viewers, even when it is a time dedication.
- The Birmingham-Southern School Panthers have superior to the Division III School World Collection. Their achievement is bittersweet, as the varsity introduced in March it might shut on account of monetary difficulties.
This text was edited by Treye Inexperienced.
