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Exploitation, brutality and misery: how the opium trade shaped the modern world
The Conversation· 5 days agoIn the final pages of Smoke and Ashes: Opium’s Hidden Histories, Amitav Ghosh volunteers a startling confession. Beside the despair occasioned by the catalogue of exploitation, brutality and ...
Boeing’s Starliner launch – delayed again – will be an important milestone for commercial...
Houston Chronicle· 2 days agoThe latest delay came as a problem with its ride to orbit, an Atlas V rocket, caused the first launch attempt late on May 6, 2024, to be scrubbed. When it does launch from the Kennedy Space ...
Long-delayed Boeing Starliner ready for first piloted flight to space station – Spaceflight Now
Spaceflight Now· 5 days agoYears behind schedule and more than a billion dollars over budget, Boeing’s Starliner capsule is finally poised for its first piloted launch Monday, a critical test flight carrying two veteran ...
Why the U.S. gets so many tornadoes
Sioux City Journal· 6 days agoThe tornadoes over the last week have put the storms back under a national spotlight. An active jet stream pattern in the western half of the country...
Guest Opinion
Arizona Daily Star· 4 days agoGuest Opinion The Arizona Daily Star welcomes original guest opinions that are sent exclusively to the Star for first publication. NOTE: OUR LENGTH LIMITS HAVE CHANGED We have two options, based on our print design templates: Submissions between 440
After Roe, network that helps others get abortions sees itself as 'the underground'
Sioux City Journal· 4 days agoWaiting in a long post office line with the latest shipment of "abortion aftercare kits," Kimra Luna...
Letter to the Editor
Arizona Daily Star· 4 days agoLetter to the Editor The Arizona Daily Star welcomes original letters with ideas, viewpoints, criticism and news analysis that encourage discussion. When writing about political issues, authors should fully disclose their relationship with an issue,
The Space Review: Boeing’s Starliner, an important milestone for commercial spaceflight
The Space Review· 5 days agoIf all goes well late on May 6, NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams will blast off into...