Salisbury Pharmacy Intern Cadren Reed carefully places Christmas ornaments on a Christmas tree the day after Thanksgiving.
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While COVID-19 may be turning the world upside down, the giving spirit in Clinton remains alive and well!
Archbishop Bashar Warda is a man of hope, humility, courage and defiance. Christians will stay in the Middle East, like it or not, he says – even if there is little or no room for them among Muslim leaders in the region.
The coronavirus pandemic has laid much of the American economy on its back — but a bright spot made the disaster less crippling than it might have been. That is the Paycheck Protection Program, which funneled money to workers through small businesses.
We are just now completing a month with both an election and (virtual) Thanksgiving family gatherings, so this may not come as much of a surprise:
Dear Doctors: Our grandmother, who is 91, fell and broke her left hip. She wound up needing a partial hip replacement. I’ve read that hip fractures are dangerous for older adults. Can you explain why?
Jodi Doering, an emergency room nurse in South Dakota, tweeted this description of COVID-19 patients she's been treating: "The ones that stick out are those who still don't believe the virus is real. The ones who scream at you for a magic medicine, and that Joe Biden is going to ruin the USA. All while gasping for breath ... They tell you there must be another reason they are sick. Yes. This really happens."
Remember the debate over the meaning of the phrase "defund the police"? Repeated over and over on the progressive left, it seemed pretty clear – it meant that cities should no longer fund, and thus effectively abolish, their police forces. But some Democrats worried that embracing such a radical proposal might hurt them politically, so they suggested that it actually meant re-directing some, but not all, funds from police to things like mental health treatment and affordable housing.
Almost a half-century ago, comedian George Carlin recorded his controversial "Seven Words You Can Never Say on Television" monologue.