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...contrast to what other nations have on hand: the U.S. has one mask for every three Americans (masks are not supposed to be shared), while Australia has 2.5 masks per resident and Great Britain boasts six. "With the recent outbreak of the novel H1N1 influenza virus," warned Representative Kay Granger, a Texas Republican, "it has become clear that we need to purchase more medical supplies and replenish the Strategic National Stockpile." (Read "How to Prepare for a Pandemic...
...Shout out to News Editor Max Child from the Dartmouth Band for his article about Hermione Granger...
While it’s unclear if she flew in on a broomstick, used Floo Powder, or took more “Muggle” means of transportation, Emma Watson, the British actress who plays Hermione Granger in the “Harry Potter” films, graced campus with her magical presence for much of yesterday...
...ally, an FLDS money man and "a trusted confidante who did a lot more than any of us know," Brower says. Nielsen founded a Las Vegas high-tech machine shop company, NewEra Manufacturing (formerly Western Precision) that counted among its clients the U.S. Department of Defense. Texas Congresswoman Kay Granger has called for an investigation of a $1.2 million aircraft parts contract that Nielson's company signed with the federal government. Despite the image presented by quaintly dressed mothers and bucolic family life, the FLDS is a well-run business enterprise, Brower says, big in construction and trucking, relying...
...Only one, however, actually celebrates it as a legal state holiday: Texas. Juneteenth celebrations began there in the years following General Gordon Granger's 1865 proclamation in Galveston and continued for decades. The tradition spread to bordering Southern states, such as Arkansas and Louisiana, as migrating African Americans fanned out from Texas. It reached as far as California - where San Francisco has held one of the nation's largest Juneteenth celebrations for the last five-plus decades - and Minnesota, where Minneapolis boasts a large festival...