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Stem Cells Offer Seeds of Hope: “Smith is at the forefront of a medical experiment that seeks to treat the root cause of diabetes by replacing the cells the disease destroys. It’s a key step forward in the long quest to develop a cure for diabetes and a front-runner to finally deliver the sci-fi promise that has enveloped the stem cell field for more than two decades.” Diabetes took over her life, until a stem cell therapy freed her.
+ Long Absence: “Never before have so many Americans redrawn their relationships with work as a result of one public-health crisis. More than four years after the pandemic began, some are still reckoning with how to balance their livelihoods and life with long Covid, the chronic condition doctors are still trying to understand.” WSJ (Gift Article): Long Covid Knocked a Million Americans Off Their Career Paths.
+ Hostage Rescue: “Kaid Farhan Al-Qadi, a Bedouin Israeli citizen from Rahat in southern Israel, was rescued from a tunnel in southern Gaza by Israeli forces.” Israel rescues 52-year-old held hostage by Hamas from tunnel during ‘complex operation’ in Gaza.
+ Country Over Party: “More than 200 Republicans who previously worked for either former President George W. Bush, the late Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., or Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah, endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris for president in an open letter Monday.” These folks putting country over party don’t represent the norm. Tom Nichols in The Atlantic (Gift Article): The Conservatives Who Sold Their Souls for Trump. “They never expected having to deal with Trump for this long; they never foresaw themselves doubling and tripling and quadrupling down to the point where they now must politely look away from felonies, attacks on America’s alliances, and promises to pardon insurrectionists.”
+ Sorry if I Offended Covid: “Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in a letter to House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) that the Biden administration in 2021 ‘repeatedly pressured’ his company to take down certain posts related to covid and was ‘wrong’ to do so.” Zuckerberg expresses regrets over covid misinformation crackdown.
+ Pick a Side: “In a statistical oddity made possible by two of the quirkiest entities on Earth — the baseball rule book and the New England weather — Jansen became the only player ever to appear on both sides of a baseball box score when he took the field for Boston on Monday in the resumption of a rain-delayed game he started for Toronto in June, before he was traded to the Red Sox.” Danny Jansen plays for both teams in Blue Jays-Red Sox game, an MLB first.
+ Brotherly Love: Jason and Travis Kelce’s podcast deal with Amazon reportedly worth more than $100 million.
