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Right this moment’s prime tales
An Israeli airstrike in Rafah killed 35 folks and injured dozens of others, in response to Gaza’s Well being Ministry. The Israeli authorities had designated the world as a secure and humanitarian zone for Palestinians sheltering from warfare. Israel says it was concentrating on a Hamas set up and killed two senior Hamas officers. The strike hit tents and triggered a fireplace in an encampment.
Palestinians have a look at the destruction after an Israeli strike the place displaced folks had 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 “whole 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 had been sheltering in Rafah. The U.N. says greater than 800,000 have fled since Israel expanded its army operation there.
Right this moment, People observe Memorial Day and honor members of the army who died whereas serving their nation. Half a century in the past, the households of Vietnam Battle 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 nearly 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 via to repatriate these stays are not like some other nation. The Protection Division goals to make 200 identifications a 12 months. Because the variety of stays from the Vietnam Battle dwindles, many circumstances now come from WWII and the Korean Battle. Discovering subsequent of kin for these army members may be tough, however anthropologist Sarah Wagner of George Washington College says it is essential work. “Finally, that is about belonging,” she says. “It’s about… the need of belonging and the necessity to care for its army — previous, current, and future.”
As fowl 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 exams 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 licensed to check the milk for the H5N1 fowl 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 completely different professionals and cons in relation to assessing which is probably the most sustainable studying format.
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Digital studying is on the rise — particularly audiobooks, in response to the Affiliation of American Publishers. An e-reader or an audiobook may be extra handy than carrying round a paperback. However which is extra environmentally pleasant? It is dependent upon how voracious of a reader you’re. 📚 Print guide publishing is the world’s third-largest industrial greenhouse gasoline emitter. Within the U.S., 32 million bushes are reduce down every year to make books.
- 📚 Some publishers are switching to on-demand printing and utilizing extra eco-friendly fonts to turn out to be extra sustainable.
- 📚 Although digital units require no paper, their circumstances are made with fossil fuel-derived plastics and the minerals of their batteries require resource-heavy mining.
- 📚 You need to learn the equal of about 36 small paperback books earlier than you break even on the carbon footprint of an e-reader.
Right this moment’s hear
Carol Leone, chair of piano research at Southern Methodist College’s Meadows College 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 may be actually unreachable. In truth, 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. Right this moment, most piano firms nonetheless refuse to fabricate stretto (slender) keyboards. Pianist Hannah Reimann needs to vary this. Her Worldwide Stretto Piano Competition runs via June 4.
- 🎧 Take heed to a number of 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 children study the instrument sooner and degree the taking part in area 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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- Canine will quickly be capable to get first-class airplane therapy. BARK Air describes itself as “the world’s first air journey expertise designed particularly for canines 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 evaluation/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 Faculty Panthers have superior to the Division III Faculty World Sequence. Their achievement is bittersweet, as the varsity introduced in March it will shut attributable to monetary difficulties.
This text was edited by Treye Inexperienced.
