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• Love That Painting but Afraid of Its Price? Ask for a Payment Plan, Bitch!

  25-07-2019 23:58 via thestranger.com
  
  by Jasmyne KeimigThe author looking at her future purchase after paying in installments of $100 a month over six months. Getty/Westend61
  During an interview with Sarah Traver of Traver Gallery recently, I learned something that kind of threw me for a loop: that her gallery offered what is essentially an "art on layaway" plan for people who want to buy something but can't necessarily put down $1200 all at once. "If you want to come in here and say, 'I love this piece of art and I can only afford
  
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• Starbucks beats Q3 forecasts, raises full-year guidance

  25-07-2019 23:07
  SEATTLE (AP) — Starbucks Corp. served up an extra frothy third quarter, zooming past Wall Street’s forecasts thanks to new drinks and growing loyalty. Based on the strong results, the Seattle-based coffee giant raised its full-year earnings guidance. It now expects adjusted earnings of $2.80 to $2.82 per share, up from $2.75 to $2.79. It […]
  
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• The Reign's World Cup Players Are Back, Baby!

  25-07-2019 23:06 via thestranger.com
  
  by Nathalie GrahamHonestly, no one let me photograph anything this is the best picture I got. Nathalie Graham
  There's this distinctly sweaty, skidmark-type smell that astroturf gets when it's hot outside. It reminds me of summer soccer camp where the field would get so hot you couldn't wear black cleats or else your feet would burn.The sun beat down at the Reign FC's practice in Tacoma yesterday; that warm turf smell stinging my nostrils. Megan Rapinoe, the team's most popular player and star of
  
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• It's Show Time: The Reign's World Cup Players Are Back, Baby!

  25-07-2019 23:06 via thestranger.com
  
  by Nathalie GrahamHonestly, no one let me photograph anything this is the best picture I got. Nathalie Graham
  There's this distinctly sweaty, skidmark-type smell that astroturf gets when it's hot outside. It reminds me of summer soccer camp where the field would get so hot you couldn't wear black cleats or else your feet would burn.The sun beat down at the Reign FC's practice in Tacoma yesterday; that warm turf smell stinging my nostrils. Megan Rapinoe, the team's most popular player and star of
  
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• Brain-eating amoeba kills man who swam in NC manmade lake

  25-07-2019 22:48
  RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A North Carolina man has died from a rare brain-eating amoeba after swimming in a manmade lake at a water park, officials said Wednesday. The state Department of Health and Human Resources said in a news release that the infection was caused by the amoeba naturally present in warm freshwater during […]
  
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• Razor Clam Headlines the Summer Circus, a Cirque-Meets-Seattle-Band Party at the Crocodile

  25-07-2019 22:45 via thestranger.com
  
  by AJ DentRazor Clam at Capitol Hill Block Party 2019; they headline this Friday's Summer Circus. Sophia Barkalakis / Courtesy of Razor Clam
  Calling all clowns to Belltown: Seattle’s punk and aerial arts scenes collide this Friday to create a veritable Cirque du Crocodile: Summer Circus. Like a fair for all self-identified freaks, the party features face-painting and acrobatic acts between sets by four local bands.Singer-songwriter Heather Edgley first concocted this fever dream in early 2
  
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• Governors weigh health care plans as they await court ruling

  25-07-2019 22:36
  SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — As they gather at a conference in Utah, governors from around the U.S. are starting to think about what they will do if an appeals court upholds a lower court ruling overturning President Obama’s signature health care law. More than 20 million Americans would be at risk of losing their […]
  
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• 1 dead, 7 injured in shuttle-bus crash near Sea-Tac Airport

  25-07-2019 22:28
  One person was killed and seven others were injured Thursday afternoon after a car went across a median near Sea-Tac International Airport and hit a hotel shuttle bus, causing the bus to flip onto its side, officials said. Authorities were still investigating what caused the crash, which was reported at about 1 p.m. at South 176th […]
  
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• Some Oregon Republicans question effort to recall governor

  25-07-2019 22:15
  SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Some Republicans in Oregon aren’t on board with the party’s attempt to recall Gov. Kate Brown, saying conservatives should instead focus their efforts on winning the next election. “I am only speaking for myself, but I have misgivings about the petition drive,” Deschutes County Republican chair Paul deWitt told the Bulletin. […]
  
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• Kagan speaks of Supreme Court credibility in Spokane

  25-07-2019 22:14
  SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — Supreme Court justices are aware of how decisions made along partisan lines can damage the credibility of the institution, Justice Elena Kagan said Thursday at a judicial conference in Washington state. “It’s bad for the court and the judiciary if people think all the decisions are up for grabs depending on […]
  
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• Justice Kagan, in Spokane, speaks of Supreme Court’s credibility

  25-07-2019 22:14
  SPOKANE — Supreme Court justices are aware of how decisions made along partisan lines can damage the credibility of the institution, Justice Elena Kagan said Thursday at a judicial conference in Washington state. “It’s bad for the court and the judiciary if people think all the decisions are up for grabs depending on who is […]
  
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• A Quibble About Your Use of "Minor Quibble"

  25-07-2019 22:00 via thestranger.com
  
  Whenever you use the redundant expression "minor quibble," a copy editor's head explodes; so stop doing that.by Dave SegalThis is what comes up when you search 'quibble' on Getty.iStock / Getty Images Plus
  When people use the noun "quibble"—which is not often enough, in my view, because it's a very cute word—they almost always modify it with "minor." This construction is almost as inevitable as that maddening headline stand-by, "brutally murdered." (Has anyone ever been tenderly murd
  
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• 73-year-old, his dogs rescued after 4 days in remote Oregon

  25-07-2019 21:41
  ADELL, Ore. (AP) — A 73-year-old man who was stranded in the remote Oregon high desert for four days with his two dogs was rescued when a bicyclist discovered him nearly unconscious and miles from his abandoned car. Lake County Deputy Buck Maganzini said Thursday that the man was “out exploring” July 14 when his […]
  
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• His Apartment Reeks of Shit and He Fears the Worst

  25-07-2019 21:30 via thestranger.com
  Savage Love Letter of the Dayby Dan Savage
  I'm a bi 40-something man and the only queer (that I know of) in my generation of my family. Not so among my nieces and nephews. And so I'm the old queer they ask questions. Which is fine! But now I have a question and no one to ask. It has to do with my niece, a trans woman, and her partner. I live with them and work late nights. Well, often when I get home the place reeks of anal sex. I'm not talking about the normal prepared post-ass-sex smell or a w
  
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• FYI: You cannot use a case of beer as a booster seat

  25-07-2019 21:30
  There’s a lot of stuff you need to buy when you have a kid. It starts before the child is born and pretty much never ends and it’s expensive. While you might be able to save a few cents by going with generic diapers and formula, you simply cannot skimp when it comes to safety. […]
  
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• New Republican Oregon lawmaker sworn in to represent Salem

  25-07-2019 21:16
  SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Oregon’s capital city has a new state representative. Republican Raquel Moore-Green was sworn in Thursday to replace a vacancy in the House of Representatives. She will represent the areas of South Salem and Turner through 2020. Moore-Green was appointed by Marion County commissioners earlier this week to replace former Republican Rep. […]
  
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• Searchers seek man missing in southwest Alaska village

  25-07-2019 21:14
  ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A search is underway for a man missing in a southwest Alaska village. Alaska State Troopers say 19-year-old Clyde Edmund Jr. was seen jumping into a slough in front of the village of Alakanuk (ah-LAK-ah-nuk). He has not been seen since. Troopers in Emmonak (ee-MAHN-ak) took received a call that Edmund […]
  
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• Tim Eyman settles theft charge of taking $70 chair from Office Depot in Lacey

  25-07-2019 21:08
  The agreement means that the theft charge will be dismissed if Tim Eyman doesn't commit any crimes and stays away from the Office Depot for nine months.
  
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• Inmate’s design may boost interaction for those in solitary

  25-07-2019 21:08
  KUNA, Idaho (AP) — Keith Yordy, the warden at the Idaho Maximum Security Institution, first saw the cardboard model sometime in April. It had been constructed by an inmate at the facility, who is held in “restrictive housing” — the Idaho Department of Correction’s term for solitary confinement. It depicted a four-sided table, with each […]
  
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• Wildlife managers to use game cameras to count wolves

  25-07-2019 20:39
  COEUR D’ALENE, Idaho (AP) — Idaho wildlife managers are hoping hundreds of hunter game cameras will help the state get an accurate count of wolves. The Coeur d’Alene Press reports the Idaho Department of Fish and Game’s current wolf population estimate comes from a computer model that extrapolates numbers based on data from 2009. That […]
  
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• Juul exec: Never intended vaping device to be used by teens

  25-07-2019 20:35
  WASHINGTON (AP) — A top executive for vaping giant Juul Labs told House lawmakers Thursday that his company never intended its electronic cigarette to be adopted by underage teenagers and is working to keep them away from kids. Juul co-founder James Monsees said they developed Juul for adult smokers who want to stop. “We never […]
  
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• Juul exec: Never intended electronic cigarette for teens

  25-07-2019 20:35
  WASHINGTON (AP) — A top executive for Juul Labs said that his company never intended its electronic cigarettes to be adopted by underage teenagers, as House lawmakers on Thursday accused the company of fueling the vaping craze among high schoolers. Co-founder James Monsees testified that Juul developed its blockbuster vaping device and flavor pods for […]
  
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• 16 Marines arrested in migrant smuggling investigation

  25-07-2019 20:27
  SAN DIEGO (AP) — An investigation into Marines accused of helping smuggle migrants into the United States led to the arrest Thursday of 16 of their fellow Marines at California’s Camp Pendleton, just north of the U.S.-Mexico border. In a dramatic move aimed at sending a message, authorities made the arrests as the Marines gathered […]
  
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• A California Music Festival Had Onsite Cannabis Sales and Consumption

  25-07-2019 20:15 via thestranger.com
  
  by Josh Jardine Bartfett/Getty ImagesLast week, I wrote about how Lowell Farms' cannabis café is opening next month in West Hollywood, California. It'll be the first space of its kind in the US, allowing guests to purchase and consume cannabis onsite. Over the weekend, another first-of-its-kind cannabis event took place in Northern California, and the organizers state that it was “the first camping, three-day, and overnight festival in the country to allow the recreational dispensin
  
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• Alaska wildfires burn more than 3,400 square miles

  25-07-2019 20:07
  ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Wildfires in mostly remote parts of Alaska this summer have burned more than 3,400 square miles under dry and warm conditions. KTUU reports one lightning-sparked fire in southwest Alaska prompted the evacuation of the Donlin Gold mine Tuesday. Another led to the evacuation of a remote hunting lodge that serves as […]
  
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• Mueller Time? Or Revolution Time?

  25-07-2019 19:56 via thestranger.com
  Episode 207 of the Blabbermouth podcastby The StrangerSubscribe to the podcast FOR FREE by clicking right here!The Mueller hearings were in process as Dan Savage, Eli Sanders , and Rich Smith sat down to talk about what it all might mean — or whether the Mueller hearings will mean anything at all at this point.Then they discuss the Trump administration's recent ICE raids and tangle with a question from a caller in Eugene, Oregon. The caller wants to know why, with so much clearly broken in
  
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• Vicinity/Memoryall Is a Quiet Play About the Massive Changes Facing Seattle

  25-07-2019 19:38 via thestranger.com
  
  Catch it before it closes this weekend!by Rich SmithMemory, y'all.Press PhotoYou've felt it both ways, I'm sure. Though you'll cry at a shampoo commercial, you've stood in front of a memorial to a bloody battle and felt vacant. But you've also stared down a memorial for an incident or a person you've never heard of and then burst into tears.Memorials do so much at once. They're built for the edification of the ignorant and for the comfort of the grieving, for the living and for the dead. They tr
  
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• Frog population explodes in region of Vermont

  25-07-2019 19:15
  SALISBURY, Vt. (AP) — A wet spring has caused one frog population to explode in an area of Vermont where throngs of the amphibians have been hopping through fields and lawns, darting across roads and getting flattened by cars and tractors. University of Vermont herpetology lecturer James Andrews estimates that the population of the northern […]
  
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• Seattle: Hating on Homeless People Is in Very Poor Taste

  25-07-2019 19:08 via thestranger.com
  
  by Charles MudedeHating this tent is in poor taste. 400tmax/gettyimages.com
  We will not understand why hating on the poor or homeless people—an attitude whose popularity has spiked in Seattle's Amazon and post-gentrification era—is in such bad taste unless taste itself is clearly explained. This post will offer an explanation, and also show, in its closing section, why those who express—on social media sites like Safe Seattle and Nextdoor—hatred for persons who live in po
  
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• Alaska House passes bill to address vetoed funds

  25-07-2019 19:05
  JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — The Alaska House has passed legislation to restore significant spending vetoed by Gov. Mike Dunleavy, without minority support and with no indication whether Dunleavy will accept the spending or cut it again. House Speaker Bryce Edgmon says he doesn’t know what Dunleavy will do. The bill, among other things, restores $110 […]
  
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• Kenai police say shooting victim owed money to suspect

  25-07-2019 18:45
  ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Prosecutors suspect a Kenai woman and her daughter may have been killed over a drug debt. Anchorage television station KTVA reports 25-year-old Masonn Byrd is charged with two counts of first-degree murder in the shooting deaths of 60-year-old Rachelle Armstrong and her daughter, 39-year-old Lisa Rutzebeck. The women were found dead […]
  
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• SDOT Just Paid a Trucker $5,000 For Driving 1,800 Miles In Seattle

  25-07-2019 18:34 via thestranger.com
  
  The city is paying drivers to pollute more.by Lester BlackLet's give these folks some money. Getty/plherrera
  We are 25 days into what will likely be the hottest month in Earth’s recorded history. Humans are dramatically changing our environment and warming our earth by emitting greenhouse gases. Seattle’s humans are no exception—our city's greenhouse gas emissions are continuing to increase.
  And yet, yesterday, the city of Seattle gave a truck driver a $5,000 cash prize for dri
  
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• Feds look again at reintroducing grizzly bears to North Cascades

  25-07-2019 18:29
  The public comment period has been reopened on a plan to reintroduce grizzly bears to the North Cascades, after the process stalled last year.
  
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• Heath officials report first 2019 shellfish poisoning case

  25-07-2019 17:36
  ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Alaska health officials are reporting the year’s first case of paralytic shellfish poisoning. The Department of Health and Social Services reports a person experienced PSP symptoms after eating a clam harvested near Perryville on the Alaska Peninsula. The symptoms can include tingling of the lips and tongue within minutes of eating […]
  
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• Score! Megan Rapinoe book to be published next year

  25-07-2019 17:27
  NEW YORK (AP) — Soccer star Megan Rapinoe has scored again, this time with a book deal. Penguin Press announced Thursday that Rapinoe’s book, currently untitled, will be published in Fall 2020. Penguin is calling the book a “perfect vehicle” for an “honest, thoughtful, unapologetic” take on everything from soccer to nationalism to gay rights. […]
  
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• Slog AM: Washington's Affirmative Action Faces a Challenge, Beware the Eastside Botox Bandit, Puerto Rico's Governor Resigns

  25-07-2019 17:00 via thestranger.com
  
  by Nathalie GrahamGov. Ricardo Rosselló will resign on Aug. 2.Joe Raedle/Getty
  Affirmative action will be challenged on November ballot: In Olympia this past legislative session, lawmakers passed I-1000, a bill that would reinstate affirmative action in Washington. There was immediate opposition to the bill. You remember that UW College Republican bake sale don't you? Opponents had 90 days to gather the oddly specific 129,811 valid signatures to get a referendum on the November ballot. Ac
  
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• Oregon nonprofits warn about proposed food stamp change

  25-07-2019 16:42
  SALEM, Ore. (AP) — A pair of Oregon nonprofits that combat hunger and food insecurity criticized a proposed federal rule change that could result in 3.1 million people losing food aid benefits nationwide. The Statesman Journal reports that it’s currently unclear how many people in Oregon would be at risk for losing access to the […]
  
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• Everett fire burns home, displaces 16 people

  25-07-2019 16:29
  Firefighters arrived to find large flames coming from the back of the home, but all 16 people inside had escaped safely and there were no injuries.
  
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• Man killed by Sounder train in Kent

  25-07-2019 16:03
  A man was struck and killed by a Sounder commuter train Wednesday afternoon in Kent. Sound Transit paused services on all Sounder trains for two hours Wednesday afternoon “due to a medical emergency in Kent,” the organization said at the time. It was the second time in two days that a train fatally struck someone in Kent. A […]
  
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• Man is killed by Sounder train in Kent

  25-07-2019 16:03
  A man was struck and killed by a Sounder commuter train Wednesday afternoon in Kent. Sound Transit paused services on all Sounder trains for two hours Wednesday afternoon “due to a medical emergency in Kent,” the organization said at the time. It was the second time in two days that a train fatally struck someone in Kent. A […]
  
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• Hot-air balloonists spot kayakers in distress on White River

  25-07-2019 16:02
  The kayakers were near the White River Amphitheatre on the Pierce and King County line.
  
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• Alarming lunch letters, California’s home-schooling anti-vaxxers, school refusal: What Education Lab is reading this week

  25-07-2019 16:00
  Subscribe to the newsletter to see our favorite education stories from around the country in your inbox first, plus our best features from the week and, sometimes, upcoming Seattle-area education events. The newsletter also includes opportunities for readers to join the conversation.
  
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• AP source: Jeffrey Epstein found injured in NYC jail cell

  25-07-2019 15:54
  NEW YORK (AP) — Wealthy financier Jeffrey Epstein was found injured on the floor of his cell early this week in the federal jail where he is awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges, a person familiar with the episode told The Associated Press on Thursday. It wasn’t clear whether bruising on the 66-year-old’s neck was […]
  
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• Oklahoma marijuana dispensary owner arrested for meth sales

  25-07-2019 15:33
  SPIRO, Okla. (AP) — The owner of a medical marijuana dispensary in eastern Oklahoma is under arrest after being accused of selling methamphetamine from his business. The Oklahoma Bureau of Narcotics says 38-year-old Jeffrey Peregrino was arrested Wednesday at his store, Left Handed Okies, in Spiro, about 165 miles (270 kilometers) east of Oklahoma City. […]
  
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• First CRISPR study inside the body to start in US

  25-07-2019 15:24
  Patients are about to be enrolled in the first study to test a gene-editing technique known as CRISPR inside the body to try to cure an inherited form of blindness. People with the disease have normal eyes but lack a gene that converts light into signals to the brain that enable sight. The experimental treatment […]
  
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• Long-running tensions between Native American group and Seattle schools spill over into legal realm

  25-07-2019 15:00
  Last month, the district cut its partnership with a Native American youth program. The nonprofit overseeing the program is appealing the decision in court. The discord marks another chapter in a longstanding conflict between Seattle Public Schools and a group of families who want to preserve Native American presence in the Licton Springs area.
  
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• Owner shoots suspected car prowler in Covington, police say

  25-07-2019 14:41
  A homeowner in Covington told King County sheriff's deputies that he saw two men inside his vehicle and shot one of them.
  
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• Car owner shoots suspected car prowler in Covington

  25-07-2019 14:41
  A suspected car prowler was reported shot by a car owner in Covington early Thursday. The King County Sheriff’s Office told KIRO the shooting happened at 2:30 a.m. in the 25000 block of 160th Avenue Southeast. KIRO reported that the car owner shot one of two suspects. The person who was shot was taken to Harborview […]
  
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• Mother, daughter killed in vehicle crash; driver arrested

  25-07-2019 14:40
  BROWNSVILLE, Ore. (AP) — Authorities say a mother and daughter died in a vehicle crash south of Salem. The Statesman Journal reports deputies responded to a two-vehicle crash at 6:17 p.m. Tuesday, according to the Linn County Sheriff’s office. The sheriff’s office says investigation found Brian McIntire of Sweet Home was driving a Jeep Wrangler […]
  
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• Congo student with Ebola still finds a way to take exams

  25-07-2019 08:01
  BENI, Congo (AP) — Claude Mabowa Sasi had lost his mother, a brother and a sister to Ebola. Instead of fearing death when he, too, was diagnosed with the disease, the young man had a different worry: How would he complete his college entrance exams? It had been his mother’s greatest hope that Mabowa would […]
  
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