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Is it safe to go to big sporting events during the pandemic? Not yet, but there are ways to make it safer if you go. “Yelling, chanting, hugging and generally pouring out our sports enthusiasm is still not the safest activity,” noted Jennifer Dowd, … [Continue reading] about Is it safe to go to big sporting events during the pandemic?
The Department of Veterans Affairs is plotting the path forward for its telehealth program after the pandemic prompted a meteoric expansion of virtual care appointments in a year. Between January 2020 and 2021, the number of VA telehealth … [Continue reading] about VA’s meteoric telehealth expansion poses new questions for the future
While it is virtually impossible for a federal or postal retiree to run out of money, it is possible to run dangerously low — even with an annuity indexed in whole, or part to inflation. Civil Service Retirement System (CSRS ) retirees get full COLAs … [Continue reading] about Top off your retirement tank
BEIT HANOUN, Gaza Strip (AP) — Space engineer Loay Elbasyouni was part of the NASA team that made history this month by launching an experimental helicopter from the surface of Mars. But he says an expedition to his hometown in the Gaza Strip, where … [Continue reading] about Gazan behind Mars drone says visiting home is no small step
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — With the austerity of a monk, a vocation to seek the good of others and a bright scientific mind, Jose Gregorio Hernández won the affection of those who called him “the doctor of the poor.” He became a religious icon after … [Continue reading] about Venezuela’s beloved ‘doctor of the poor’ to be beatified
