picture: RNZ The first two years of the Covid pandemic have reversed earlier successes in increasing life expectancy, except in a handful of countries – among them Aotearoa, New Zealand. Global life expectancy fell by 1.6 years between 2019 and 2021, reversing a long-standing trend of improving life expectancy, according to the latest analysis of …
A dance professor is leading a new campus-wide initiative to expand the arts at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the surrounding area. Cynthia Oliver joined the Illinois dance faculty in 2000. Five years ago, she became associate vice chancellor for research and innovation in the humanities, arts and related fields. Many artists on …
photo: RNZ / Nate MacKinnon Air New Zealand has admitted it made a mistake when it tried to charge two American tourists $13,000 to change flights after one of them received a serious medical diagnosis. Todd and Patricia Kerekes flew business class from New York to Auckland in January. Return tickets cost $37,500. They intended …
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Kansas City Chiefs wide receiver DeMarcus Robinson jumps on confetti as he celebrates winning the 2020 NFL Super Bowl LIV game against the San Francisco 49ers. photo: Photosport Take Las Vegas and the NFL, add the hottest pop star in the world, a love story that has social media spinning like a pinwheel, two over-the-top …
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Kansas City Chiefs wide receiver DeMarcus Robinson jumps on confetti as he celebrates winning the 2020 NFL Super Bowl LIV game against the San Francisco 49ers. photo: Photosport Take Las Vegas and the NFL, add the hottest pop star in the world, a love story that has social media spinning like a pinwheel, two over-the-top …
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Kansas City Chiefs wide receiver DeMarcus Robinson jumps on the confetti as he celebrates winning the 2020 NFL Super Bowl LIV game against the San Francisco 49ers. photo: Photosport Take Las Vegas and the NFL, throw in the hottest pop star in the world, a love story that has social media spinning like a pinwheel, …
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Jessa Williams says it’s a misconception that people with disabilities don’t want to do adventure activities like rafting. photo: 123RF People with disabilities are missing out on experiencing all the country has to offer because of poor accessibility in the tourism industry, advocates say. They want the government to tackle the problem by creating minimum …
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When Amanda Brown became director of athletics at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee in 2013, women represented about 1 in 5 athletic directors in college sports. Today, a decade after she took the helm of Panthers athletics, the ratio is about 1 in 4 athletic directors, according to the NCAA. One national group working to further …
In her role as executive director of the Platteville Business Incubator, Kate Koziol said she’s learned there are no mistakes in the entrepreneurial world. “There are just ideas that didn’t work out well,” Koziol says. “And you can rework it or refine it. You can always learn from something.” But, she added, rural entrepreneurs can …
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About a decade ago, a new type of mosquito began to appear in African cities. A native of Asia, Anopheles stephensi prefers crowded urban environments to rural ones. This means trouble: these mosquitoes transmit malaria. This is particularly bad news for Africa, where more than 93% of the world’s quarter of a billion malaria cases …
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